Scout,
The "I will succeed" mentality is easy to break, IF you have drill partners who are sadistic enough. I've seen drills done (and been an observer) where there was NO successful way out, but you saw how far you could go, and where things eventually failed - test to failure

You know - drills like, the Hurricane hits (OK problem, but we'll deal with it), which causes the ship to break loose from it's mooring, which they try to stop, unsuccesfully, which rams shore, and explodes (turns out to be a LPG or Gas barge), which takes out a major bridge (people in the water), a train derails due to a washout, of course it's full of Hazmat, etc - each incident has a string of "Other" incidets it can cascade - if you handle the incident right, it stops the cascade for that ONE incident, but then something else pops up across town - and some things "just happen"