Actually i found it incredibly hard to sleep when the stag ended, i think eventually i had 6 or 8 hours, but the recovery took a hell of a long time and whilst the exercise continued in a similar vein for a couple more weeks, it took much longer to fully recover proper sleep patterns.
I was most struck by the totally debilitating effects of sleep deprivation for that period of time. Drugs only keep you conscious, they do nothing for the addled state of your brain and your efficiency suffers exponentially after 20 hours, or so. I certainly wasn't comfortable doing anything like driving or handling a weapon for a while afterwards. Don't know as to current issue of amphets to troops but this was in 1996, i believe there is a lot of ripped fuel being eaten like sweets amongst troops serving in iraq and afghanistan currently
Indeed there is, by all accounts, but that's a far cry, imj.
I have ethnic origins on one side (sur) in Shropshire. Indeed, my Avatar is a crest that I regularly mock:
"By the squirrel, the acorn, and the hazelnut branch,
I strive to honor my Shropshire ancestry and their frilly thing with the helmeted knight guy... whose visor sort of reminds me of a '78 Regal.
This is a great burden, may I be equal to it. "
My friends assure me, you'll be comforted to know, that I am an equal burden.
