My point is that lack of sleep affects people. And was your unit taking casualties at the time?
Were you under return fire?
Yes, 72 hours is quite a while without sleep, those guns are LOUD, and I respect that you have the experience. But please don’t minimize the fact that Ukraine has been at war for _years_ now in a tenuous position - and the longer it goes, the more friends and colleagues one loses, the harder it can get. I’m no Ukrainian, but I understand these types of symptoms.
It sounds like you of all people have the experience to know very well what my point is.
It’s pretty stressful slinging HE downrange nonstop and do it correctly without screwing up the firing data because you can go to jail for messing up the firing data.
Fire out of the “box”?
Rear of the piece face the piece fall in, bend over for the rectal inspection coming.
And mistakes can kill you on a howitzer, so you’re going “pleasedontscrewuppleasedontscrewup”.
And you’ve been awake for 72 straight no sleep.
No, none of us had the tweaker twitches from it.