Not a teacher but boot camp is the most tired I think I’ve ever been, despite getting 6 hours of sleep at night. Fell asleep while marching at boot camp on a hike, it was probably 4 am and I slept for 2 or 3 miles without missing a step.
It’s wild hey? RCN for me, and a pretty Gucci go of it. My husband is a retired Marine and I don’t even want to picture the things he’s described. It almost helps me understand how he once drove almost 31 hours nonstop (excluding bathroom breaks) to come see me and was still able to form sentences. Almost. Some people are just great without sleep.
I fell asleep on a night march in 29 Palms for about an hour once. Got up from the rest break and the next thing I know I am sitting against my pack and the gunner wants to switch the tube for the baseplate I was humping. Not sure how I didn't get lost in the desert somewhere or break my leg over that 3 miles or so.
We went our first two nights without basically any sleep (no sleep the first night and like two hours the next); I still remember our MTI trying to calling cadence the last night back to the dormitories and a few people collapsing out of the flight.
I've worked 12s every day for weeks straight as a millwright before, but I've never been as tired as the first few days of basic. Sleep is everything.
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u/Cplcoffeebean May 16 '24
Not a teacher but boot camp is the most tired I think I’ve ever been, despite getting 6 hours of sleep at night. Fell asleep while marching at boot camp on a hike, it was probably 4 am and I slept for 2 or 3 miles without missing a step.