Eight days to go! Some interesting logic behind yesterday's guesses at how many sammies are being made for the exercise. The actual number? 15,000! If you stacked each of them on top of each other you would make a pile 122m taller than the Sky Tower.

For those who may not know already, Exercise Cadet 2020 will see around 1000 cadets from 99 units from all around New Zealand descend on Waiouru to be challenged by four intense days of military-styled activities of the three par...ent services. The training programme for CADET2020 includes a four-day round robin training programme where cadets in each of the four electives (land, maritime, flying, and adventure) will be grouped into formations of approximately 300 and then further split into teams of 30 who will attend each activity together.