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Originally Posted by crich70
From what I've heard of how early the Army gets up I wonder that an alarm clock was even necessary.  |
Once you're out of training you're treated like big girls and boys and expected to be able to handle the basics on your own. Well at least the units I was in you were. But then again I was always was in small specialized units. The big mega units like infantry and artillery would have 2, maybe 3 formations a day, we'd have maybe 5 a year. We also had more than half of the company on some form of shift work or detached duty at any given time. In one unit we ended up with a very explosive situation when they put 8 of of us girls in one room and half were straight days and half shift. One odarkthirty morning one of the girls took one of those heavy duty one litre beer mugs, slid her hand through the handle, whacked the mug on a dresser so she had a large shard of broken glass as a weapon connected to her hand, she was a straight day and was going after a shift worker.... we were all so sleep deprived it was pathetic. She got a couple of cuts in on the girl before the MPs got there. It took 3 of them per girl to get them under control, and they weren't big girls! We had new barracks rooms the next day!