I can think of a reason - if they are in a hotel room they are not immediately available for action...
These soldiers are sleeping in the trenches to maintain a security blanket.
If anything happens, they stand up & they are at their post.
in my experience, your either pulling 24 hr duty or 24 hour ops with 12 hr shifts. Regardless, when youre on, youre not sleeping on the floor. You better get in to the sleeping quarters or day room area if youre not at work. Sleeping like this out in the open, has only ever occurred if theres no sleeping quarters. DC has a billion hotels, not to mention the army can do this thing, called setting up tents. In my experience the Army does not like to look sloppy like this and have Soliders sleeping in hallways. Its unprofessional - and makes us look all dicked up. Ive only ever seen it, in an airport or because theres no other sleeping option.
That is understood, though I believe that my point still holds some validity.
They are all available for instant action & they are making a continuous security presence to deter the enemy.
If they were all put up in hotels/tents, it would decrease their readiness/reaction time, provide the enemy with opportunity to counter that does not otherwise exist, & it would inhibit the element of surprise when ops are imminent.
My $0.02 fiat...
I feel ya, but still maintain that having joe sleeping in the halls doesn't make us look prepared for combat - it makes us look like disorganized fucks - which is why in my seven years Ive never seen this during operations - travel - OK - not during operations
I can think of a reason - if they are in a hotel room they are not immediately available for action... These soldiers are sleeping in the trenches to maintain a security blanket. If anything happens, they stand up & they are at their post.
in my experience, your either pulling 24 hr duty or 24 hour ops with 12 hr shifts. Regardless, when youre on, youre not sleeping on the floor. You better get in to the sleeping quarters or day room area if youre not at work. Sleeping like this out in the open, has only ever occurred if theres no sleeping quarters. DC has a billion hotels, not to mention the army can do this thing, called setting up tents. In my experience the Army does not like to look sloppy like this and have Soliders sleeping in hallways. Its unprofessional - and makes us look all dicked up. Ive only ever seen it, in an airport or because theres no other sleeping option.
That is understood, though I believe that my point still holds some validity. They are all available for instant action & they are making a continuous security presence to deter the enemy. If they were all put up in hotels/tents, it would decrease their readiness/reaction time, provide the enemy with opportunity to counter that does not otherwise exist, & it would inhibit the element of surprise when ops are imminent. My $0.02 fiat...
I feel ya, but still maintain that having joe sleeping in the halls doesn't make us look prepared for combat - it makes us look like disorganized fucks - which is why in my seven years Ive never seen this during operations - travel - OK - not during operations
Well then, we must be very organized if we are appearing to be in disarray... Sun Tzu Art of War...