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The Cronan Patrol Competition is the most difficult soldier skills and lone-range reconnaissance/patrol exercise in Ixnay. Started in 1970 during the Fourth Bush War, it was meant to emulate the light infantry skills required for patrolling, reconnaissance, ambushes, and small-arty tasks. Teams of six to ten soldiers from across the Arcer regular military and select international teams are invited to participate. It involves mountaineering, rope and knot skills, marksmanship, extreme endurance and physical fitness tests, use of radios and communications equipment, escape and evasion (SERE), live-fire ranges, camouflage and reconnaissance skills, and leadership. Over 72 hours teams usually ruck march one hundred kilometers on average, with very little food or sleep. The most decorated Regiment in Arcerion is the Royal Easthampton Borderers, who have won the competition twenty-seven times since 1970, and are currently the reigning champions for the last three years. Only two international teams have ever placed in the top three, with XX unit from XX nation placing second in 2015, and YY nation's YY unit taking home a third-place prize in 2020. Both teams earned a regular invitation back at the specific request of the Arcer Army HQ to foster international partnerships and coordination.