The recruits reach the challenging halfway point in training, which is often when many recruits leave the troop, either through failure or giving up, before training steps up a gear

As training progresses, exercises start to imitate life at war and the nature of the job begins to worry some recruits. And new boss Captain Simon Smith is feeling under pressure.

As the reality of what he may ultimately be required to do as a Marine dawns on Seda from Egypt, he faces a tough decision about whether he should be a Marine after all