[quote=@Xandrya]Did you get those 7 or 8 hours you needed back then? Because you know, you were an officer, so you really didn't [I]work[/I].

Kidding aside, mostly, I've had to go to the VA hospital a few times to get Ambien. I think I've gotten better now though.[/quote]I was enlisted for five years before I was commissioned. I can appreciate that. :)
The [i]work[/i] an officer does is not seen by the enlisted. I know that, having served on both sides of that coin. When we were in the field, I never got enough sleep. I had a battalion commander once who required only four hours of sleep. I was so envious of that man. He would go to sleep at 12:30AM and be up around 4:30. His driver hated life.

I recall one time leaving the company CP following an operations order brief around 12:30 AM. I went back to my platoon CP and my PSG. we took turns sleeping and listening to the radio because we had no RTO. I must have had an hour and a half sleep that night because some assholes came and attacked us at zero dark thirty. It sucked.

No, I didn't always get my 7 or 8 hours sleep.