Anyone else think s5e13 proving ground was wildly dangerous?

For those that don’t remember this is an episode where Jack is training 4 recruits when the base is overrun in a foothold situation and they all have to save the day. It is in fact a secret graduation training exercise. He kits them out with non lethal weapons and a back up pistol with blanks and tells them to remember “they are our people”

Apart from none of them checking the magazine when taking the pistols all of them are highly trained soldiers. The risk that they could do real serious damage to the base to shut down the gate or kill/ injure someone would still be massive as they believe they are in a real scenario.

I get the point of it but it seems incredibly reckless to me. Anyone else.