Amir watched as Doreo was lit up from incoming fire. A standard training op? Perhaps not.
Amir ran through the door, and tactically dove into the opening within the wired fencing. Shots were being repeatedly fired, and mud was being flung around left and right from not only Amir, but the others as well. It was a mess. Thankfully, he didn't need his eyes on this one. Instincts. Amir pushed forward, and forward to his limit. "Seven minutes", he kept repeating in his mind. He arched his back for a moment, not sure why, and felt the brush of jagged edges on the back of his uniform. Luckily, he went unscathed. It wasn't necessarily extremely vigorous, but in the back of his mind, he knew it might be later on. Once he reached the position Doreo had been shot at, he tried to manuever properly around her body. It wasn't too troublesome.
He eventually made it to the end, a safe-zone. Dirt and mud covered most of his body, and face. He tried to quickly wipe it from his face, but it didn't do much good, if any at all. Within a split second after, Amir ran towards the next stage.
The 'hot-zone'. Amir thought it was appropriately named given its nature. The fierce fire was constantly at launch in regular intervals. Yaacov counted the majority of the flames before even starting. "One, two, three, one, two...Ah, **** it, he thought - he didn't have time. Although with only a slight idea of the time shifts, he ran through. Strategically advancing. He'd been half way completed with this specific stage when he tried to move forward, and got his arm caught in the flames for a second. Amir could smell scorched hair, and felt a modest amount of pain on his right forearm. He wasn't harmed to much of an extent however, and speedily regained his composure - pain is insignifacant to the will of a soldier. He continued forth.
Another forty meters completed, and another safe-zone. "I was pretty quick with the first one. Second one...", he didn't even get to finish his sentence due to trying maintaining his advancement with the others. As he was running to the next part of the exercise, he glanced back at the soldiers that stood there, but didn't even get to question anything is his mind.
He'd just bursted into a room with various weight equipment around. He scanned the area for the one labeled 'Amir Yaacov'. "There you are, beautiful", he said. Perhaps not possessing the same stamina as the younger teammates, he certainly had the discipline over his body, and will to compete with them. The weights were somewhat heavy, but Amir got through it easier than the previous ones. One, four, ten, twenty, thirty three, forty. He completed this task, albeit some fatigue was setting in. Although there were already others present, Amir didn't plan on coming in last or going over Apple's expected time, to say the least.
Running swiftly to the fourth, and second to last stage, he had to ascend a rope, and climb across (?), with water if one were to fall underneath. "No pressure", he said to himself - although this wasn't true, it kept him going. His arm had some pain from the minor burn, and both of his arms had a sensation from the previous stage. But, he managed to do it. Seven minutes hadn't passed, or at least, he didn't believe they did.
Now, he remembered what Greg Apple had said. The final safe-zone, the final stage. He took off his bandanna, and wrapped it around his arm -- no sense in exposing any weaknesses, especially not from what he'd seen of Apple just the previous night. Also, like that night, he didn't rush head strong in. He'd realized that's just how you get killed on the battlefield, but time was scarce.
He waited for Jan, and Deuce to attempt to tag him before commencing his POA. Perhaps, one of these men could act as a distraction while Yaacov tagged him. He'd just have to find out, and see how it plays out.