Naissotilaat

- Season 3

(2020)

Do I look like a soldier already? Melissa, Maria, Suvi and Rosa wake up eager for their first day in the army. How do first close-order dill go in too big combat boots?

One gets into the vibes. Rookies endure the first evaluations of their physical condition and the Cooper's test. First combat exercise puts their pain tolerance to the test. Maria is puzzled over her results in first live ammo shooting.

Barrel out of the peat. Rookies are facing their first several day field exercise in the forest. How will Suvi fare? She isn't familiar with rambling in the woods.

We ain't rookies anymore. Three day exercise in the forest is coming to an end and the journey back from the forest to the barracks will be marched on foot. Suvi relies on humour, but Maria is not laughing.

Objective reached. Exciting revealing of selections for further assignments brings feelings to surface. Who has enough points to get into NCO training?

Attitude okay and antennas out. Melissa gets to finally train for "city warfare" Suvi feel insecurity in a shooting exercise. Rosa moves to Pori brigade. Maria has hurt her knee.

Step on it. Rosa gets to drive for the first time an armored vehicle together with her driving partner Niininen. Melissa and Suvi get new insignia. Maria's struggle on the march of Kirkkojärvi begins.

Blood, Steel. How will Maria survive the legendary Kirkkojärvi march, when her body starts to jam. New recruits arrive in Kainuu brigade and are met by fresh corporals Suvi and Melissa.

State of emergency. Maria is celebrating her graduation from reserve officer training and Melissa is apprehensive about capture of a dangerous person - exercise. Rosa gets to "clown around with a Pasi" for a change. The chapter ends in dramatic circumstances.

Nought left. Female soldiers have adapted to the special arrangements brought on by the Covid spring, but they feel that their time in the service is dwindling away too fast.