Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 I still can. Problem is I can't stay asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Crimes Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 I used to be able to sleep standing up in a hammock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I still can. Problem is I can't stay asleep. Seems to be common malady in guys of a certain age. (What does that mean exactly? I've always been of a certain age.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Major Crimes said: I used to be able to sleep standing up in a hammock I told a girl once that I wanted her in the worst way. She told me the worst way she could imagine would be standing up in a hammock. We were married 51 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I still can. Problem is I can't stay asleep. 2 hours ago, Major Crimes said: I used to be able to sleep standing up in a hammock Did you ever fall asleep in Formation? I did. We were practicing for a Change of Command ceremony, and the Officers kept getting something wrong. So naturally the rest of us had to stand in formation while they practiced their part again and again. The Sgt. Major was NOT amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punxsutawneypete Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Yeah, before my sleep apnea got treated. It was a running joke in town as to how I could fall asleep sitting straight up at the bar in the VFW and American Legion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 I fell asleep like the top one onetime in Kyoto, Japan but I was a lot older and drunker. I haven’t touched Saki since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Just an observation, but I think anybody that has been in a field unit in the Army or Marines developed the ability to sleep, especially for short periods, just about anywhere. I've slept leaning against trees, doing a rucksack flop, in the back of a deuce and a half, on a narrow litter in the back of an ambulance, in a cold and leaky Humvee in the rain, in a hot and leaky Humvee in a sandstorm... You get the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On top of two foot lockers, any lecture by the chaplain, who told the DIs to stand down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Carpenter Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On Okinawa in 69, working flight Line 12+ hours a day; my tent was about 200 yards from the KC-135 engine Trim Pad. I could sleep like a baby with a KC doing a water injection trim . It rattled the cots, but I could sleep right though it. Still can. Cheers, Hoss C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Hoss Carpenter said: On Okinawa in 69, working flight Line 12+ hours a day; my tent was about 200 yards from the KC-135 engine Trim Pad. I could sleep like a baby with a KC doing a water injection trim . It rattled the cots, but I could sleep right though it. Still can. Cheers, Hoss C. I've slept while artillery batteries were firing, so I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 I learned how to sleep with my eyes open...in church! Could catch a few zzzzz's lying on the steel floor of a Minuteman I launcher equipment room, waiting for the 2 hr 32 min. calibration cycle to complete! Just used the umbilical cable on the floor for a pillow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Angus McPherson Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 9 hours ago, DocWard said: I've slept while artillery batteries were firing, so I understand. I worked with a guy who once slept thru a mortar attack in Viet Nam. I had to wonder where his buddies were at the time. I'd think at least one of them would wake him up or drag him to a bunker. I've slept thru some pretty good storms, but I think I'd wake up for a mortar attack. Angus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 12 minutes ago, Black Angus McPherson said: I worked with a guy who once slept thru a mortar attack in Viet Nam. I had to wonder where his buddies were at the time. I'd think at least one of them would wake him up or drag him to a bunker. I've slept thru some pretty good storms, but I think I'd wake up for a mortar attack. Angus Yeah, I'm pretty sure that would get my attention too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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