The aspirants are woken up at dawn and are sent out on the march in Exercise flag stress. The flag post that gives the highest score is the classic and feared backwards plunge, four and a half meters above the water surface in Isfjorden.

It gets loud and airy when the aspirants have to go out on a beam outside a house roof, to take in the laundry, which Colonel Lauritzen has hung high above the ground for the occasion.