Sleepless Nights

With all the physically challenging stuff we do here, it's no surprise that most of us are fully of capable of sleeping while standing. I am willing to bet that every single one of us falls asleep within 10 minutes after lying on our beds.
So it is with ample surprise that you still find soldiers having spent sleepless, restless nights. How? Oh, it's simple: night duties of various kinds. The most common of which is the Administrator duty, which lasts a full 24 hours.
A new admin, with his or her two assistants take on the post in the evening, spend most of the night awake, sleeping only 4 hours, if all goes well, and must ensure the smooth running of the division they are in charge of. They call the shots on what uniform to wear, where to be at what time and whom to allow and whom not to allow on the premises. I have had the lovely honour of being admin from tonight, hence the late hour of the post, and boy do I feel sleepy. I cannot imagine I will be more than a zombie come dawn.