[fr_freak]

Even in this case here not everyone was asleep ~ that just doesn't happen.

I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Most of the platoon was sleeping. The rest, most likely anywhere from several to ten or so guys, were on guard duty at various spots along the perimeter, with an NCO doing a roving check on those spots throughout. The NCO probably caught him, or his relief caught him.

[muawiyah]

There's an awful lot you seem to not know about military life. I was in the Infantry. I understand guard duty. All I said is the whole platoon would not ever be asleep. And lo and behold they weren't!

You can't have it both ways ~ everybody asleep but the sleeper ~ just doesn't happen.