Those are genetically controlled conditions ~ talk therapy doesn't work. In a combat situation chronic sleepiness is a special condition ~ it's not like these guys are up partying all night you know.
Modern standards are to treat the nut cases, not shoot them.
“In a combat situation chronic sleepiness is a special condition ~ it’s not like these guys are up partying all night you know. “
By damn, but you don’t know much about life in a combat zone, so you!!!!!
Most folks in a combat zone - not a rear echelon place like Bagram, but out on the front lines like this place apparently was, quickly develop that ancient reptilian disease known as Dragon Ass. You don’t party all night, but you do pull guard duty, or go out on a one day patrol and return eight days later...
To cover your utterly mistaken initial post you are now resorting to manufacturing excuses for criminal irresponsibility. Nothing in the article suggests he had narcolepsy or anything similar.
As long as we are making things up, I’ll conjecture that space aliens slipped him a mickey when he wasn’t looking. Can’t blame him for that...but of course the NCOs and officers should have deployed an anti-space alien perimeter to protect him.