Originally Posted By: BOD
10 days later he turned up at the garrison. He'd spent the entire time in a hotel while the rest were in the bush, starving and later interrogated.

Some people wanted to court-martial him but wiser heads prevailed pointing out that what he did was exactly right. Escape as soon as possible.
I agree about escaping as soon as possible. However, often these exercises are attempting to simulate escaping in a foreign land. Checking into a hotel would probably get you arrested pronto.

There was a BBC TV series called "SAS: Are You Tough Enough?" that put civilian volunteers through faux SAS selection. During the E&E exercise they were told to stay away from roads. One of the women was found hitch-hiking. If she'd done that for real in a foreign country, it would be like hitch-hiking through England with a German accent during WWII. Anyone who meets you would turn you in.
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