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The Top 7 Best Places For Infantrymen To Sleep

Though military members of all stripes probably have an easy time sleeping in places other than a bed, infantrymen are especially adept at being able to sleep just about anywhere. We’ve ranked the best spots for grunts to catch some Z’s. via The Top 7 Best Places For Infantrymen To Sleep. Forget about adding a…

Though military members of all stripes probably have an easy time sleeping in places other than a bed, infantrymen are especially adept at being able to sleep just about anywhere. We’ve ranked the best spots for grunts to catch some Z’s.

via The Top 7 Best Places For Infantrymen To Sleep.

Forget about adding a laser rangefinder and whatnot. The single biggest improvement the ODS variant introduced to the Bradley was switching to bench seating in the troop compartment, which, since we always kicked the dismounts out at night left a couple of very comfy benches for the BC and Gunner to sleep on.

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  1. Esli

    I’ve pretty much gone with the hood of my HMMWV or the top of the turret for years. In the current job, since nobody else rides in my truck ever, I just keep a cot running across the back seat and sleep there. It’s hard to reach all the way to the starter switch and turn it on periodically, though… of course that is to keep the radios charged, not to run the heater! As a tanker, I really can’t recall the last time I slept on the ground. Yet another reason to be glad I switched from the infantry.

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  2. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Done them all althought two days flying cross country in a Chinook (Ft. Worth, TX to Nellis AFB) damn near did me in.

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  3. timactual

    Heater?!?! You had a heater?? Another example of bloated defense spending. This new volunteer army is getting soft. Brian and I can remember watching icicles form on the ceiling of our M113 from condensation of the moisture in our breath.

    I also note that all of those pictures were taken on level terrain. Not much of a challenge there. Why, Brian and I used to sleep on slopes so steep that we went to sleep at the company CP and woke up out by an LP/OP. And why no moisture? Mud may be a tad on the cool side, but it is nice and soft.

    I am assuming those pictures were taken with a very fast shutter speed, else at least one of them would show the sleeping individual as a blur because of shivering.

    I do have fond memories, however, of sleeping under pine trees on a nice thick bed of pine needles. Very comfy. No bugs or snakes. Brian didn’t think much of it, though. Not hardcore enough, I guess.

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  4. timactual

    PS

    You really have not been tired until you can sleep standing up or walking. I always thought Bill Mauldin was exaggerating, until I did it.

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  5. Esli

    Not only do I have a heater, it actually works. And just for the fun of it, I use a sleeping bag, too… My days in a 113 were not so fun, but that was a long time ago and best forgotten. I did have a hammock rigged in the back but swinging in the air got very cold.

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  6. xbradtc

    I looked all through the ARTEPS for infantry platoons, and nothing says you have to practice being miserable.

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  7. timactual

    “I looked all through the ARTEPS for infantry platoons, and nothing says you have to practice being miserable.”

    Hah!. I’ll bet they don’t say anything about practicing breathing either. It just comes with the turf. Like they say, “If it ain’t raining, it ain’t training”. The Postal Service ain’t got nothing on the Infantry with all that “Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night…”.

    “…swinging in the air got very cold.”

    Cold??? I’ll tell you about cold! Why, I misremember one time……so cold……!!!

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