Your right Ken that all that is a factor but im not sure that they wont give Pete a license because of any skill level or not passing but he simply could not get someone to make it and send the thing, maybe it did come from no one wanting to sign it in the end but it's hard to say.
The fire fighters did make that point that if they sign off on it and someone gets hurt later they will want to go back and see who signed off on your training.
I hope the crosscut training will be a little more straight forward.