I wasn't on the front line, or the second line, or even the third line, but I took my military job very seriously. I can honestly say that in my 20 years on the job I never, ever fell asleep on watch. I made sure I had plenty of rest prior to work and if there was ever a time I had even though about sleeping I would find something to do to keep that from happening.

makes you wonder what they mean with "specially-trained", huh?...specially-trained where exactly? in a treatment centre for insomniacs or something? In that case, they're doing a brilliant job

btw, it's like watching the real life version of Homer Simpson
but at least he wasn't armed

I have to say I have never seen anyone in the armed services sleeping on duty. I know it happens because I've heard about the court martials, but I've never seen it.

I was CQ for my unit for months, on the overnight and never fell asleep, nor did my "runner". And night is when all the non-sense went on. We had to raid barracks one time, it was...intense.

I also pulled the overnight, on several occasions alone, at the communications station. Urgent messages would come in at all hours, if I slept through them, bad things would've happened.

One time all the equipment went down, all of it, at once. There was no comprehensive plan in place so I just started waking up colonels and master sgts. until I got a chain of command thing going, it was the middle of the night, no one was happy with me that night but I got lauded for it the next day (it also caused me extra duties since I was so vigilant...dammit)

OK yes this is totally screwed up and something needs to be done about it...BUT am I the only one who noticed this while reading the article?

Peach Bottom Nuclear Plant - Freaky farm porn?
Wackenhut - Wackenhut? Wackenhut? I mean COME ON...
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant - A secret hunter spot?
Exelon - Sounds like an alien overlord if you ask me

Do we give f*cked up names to nuclear related things to throw terrorists off or are the people who name stuff like this just on acid as a general rule?

I noticed it too, I am going to go with the acid theory.

lol for sure!