Duty Officer

My turn as the PO's DO (see headline) started at 0400 instead of the usual 0600, because the previous duty officer was planned to be the driver at a patrol in the afternoon, and drivers should be allowed 6 hours of continuous sleep before patrols. But, alas, to no-one's surprise that patrol was cancelled, so I woke up two hours earlier for no reason. I've now been up and about for 15 hours, and there's still 11 to go. Yes, that adds up to 26 hours, but it shouldn't be problem. The requirement for NATO staff officers is 72 hours, or so I've heard. As for other matter's than the usual DO's routines, I managed to have one meeting and to teach the new MMT members how to use some signals equipment. But I'm not the only one of the PO staff who has a lot to do - just take a look at the signals NCO's cascade of post-it's in the ops-room: