“So, you’re in a combat situation and everybody but you is allowed to sleep ~ NOT!”
Not while he’s on post. This isn’t the post office. People die when people fall asleep on guard duty.
“Don’t be silly.”
Just shut up mail man, you know nothing of having your life depend on those around you. He risked lives because he was too lazy to stay awake. Its sad that he killed himself but to minimize it is ignorant.
It will be investigated to see if these Marines went over the top and acted dishonorably or not.
The Marines are not real interested in your hyperventalating rationalizations and excuses for what happened. If they did what was reported in the article, this is a big deal and they are up shit’s creek.
You know doggone well units in the field do not ALL sleep at the same time ~ this is not the good old days when war was conducted exclusively in the daytime.
the "too lazy" part of your statement assumes facts not in evidence.
When I was a hospital chaplain working pediatrics, we had a very sweet 7 year old girl whose brain was being crowded into dysfunction by a large and inoperable "benign" tumor. She was dying and nothing was working.
the first sign of the tumor was an absence seizure or something of the kind. Her parent's response? They gave her a spanking.
You can imagine what they were going through. And, forgive me, but you deserve to go through something similar. Until you are the world's foremost expert on the neuro-psychology of sleep, I'd recommend considering that you just might not have enough facts to judge someone as being lazy, as those parents didn't have enough facts when they jumped to the conclusion that their own child, who needed their love and understanding, was rude rather than ill.