"If I got two hours of sleep, I was happy.” -- This quote is so troubling at so many levels. Who was responsible for giving “wise” answers? This poor man was getting two hours of sleep per day.
This quote is so troubling at so many levels:
“I would work all day, go to my home (a few hundred yards away) around 11 p.m., then work out of my home office for a couple more hours. The military, in their wisdom, had replicated the deputy commander’s office in the deputy commander’s home, so that when I went home it was like going back to the office. It made it easy to work more. The phone rang from the moment I got home, and kept ringing every few minutes. When I finally got to bed around 1 a.m. or so, it kept ringing. It never stopped. We had people engaged in important activities all around the world all the time, which meant all hours of the night for me. They knew they could call me anytime, and it was my job to give them answers. I rolled over and answered that phone throughout the night. If I got two hours of sleep, I was happy.”
Quote is from first paragraph, mid page, chapter 3.
Author is LTG Michael DeLong, USMC (Retired)
OBSERVER JOURNAL INSIGHT:
This quote is so troubling at so many levels. Who was responsible for giving “wise” answers? This poor man was getting two hours of sleep per day. Could he even spell the word “sleep” or much less the word “deprivation”? If this quote is truthful, does the senior military command structure have a culture of sleep deprivation and if they do, who is doing the critical thinking to win this global war? Are all the key generals in command and deputy command slots too mentally exhausted to creatively or brilliantly win this war?
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