Forty-eight hours is the honest limit of roughing it. Two days and one night, a disciplined crew runs on what it carries: crew rate, nothing else, home before it costs anyone anything.
Past that line, endurance becomes a safety problem and a resource problem. So day three mobilizes the full deployment: power, comms, shelter, per diem, and the trip out and back. It bills as its own line items because it is its own operation.
The line is not about comfort. It is about a crew that stays sharp on day five and never takes a bed from the community it came to serve.
