"If we can't do it in a day, we can't do it," he says, turning over the hundreds of scenarios he's run in his head. Depending on which ships he can get there, how much trouble the sergeants are, how fast they can move the tanks - the cadets will be terrified but grateful for instruction, trained in efficiency and already organized by squad and tier, as long as they do> cooperate -

"But a long day. Middle ground, say sixteen hours."