Don't you find it difficult?

[Kevin]

Just a hunch, but when I heard from one of the reporters attached to a unit saying none of them had slept for 60 hours alarm claxon started to sound in my head.
60 hours without sleep is deep into the territory where psychologists say aberrant behaviour and psychosis can manifest themselves. Ofcource it is very individual, for some it doesn't take even 40 hours. So if this particular soldier was as sleep deprived, it's entirely possible he was hallucinating or otherwise not in control of his faculties.

Hmm, you must not have seen the whole report. The embedded reported said that no one had had horizontal sleep for 60 hours. Meaning no one had had a chance to lie down and sleep (and even that may not have been true). He went on to say that they had been cat-napping. When you are in convoy you don't need to have the whole crew awake, just the driver and a few other essential people so they had been sleeping, just not the standard sleep that most people are used to. From my time in the military, stuff like this isn't all that uncommon. You get an hour here or there, 15 minutes here, sometimes even 3 or 4 hours in a row. I would bet that most people in that group still managed to get 10-12 hours of sleep in that 60 hour time frame, and that isn't that bad at all. Add to it most of the people were 18-25 years old, and it becomes even less of an issue.