In Afghanistan back in 2008, I was a battle captain and an aviator in an aviation task force. I was on night shift so I could plan the next day's missions while my team ran operations. That worked fine during the winter until the passes thawed in the spring. Operational tempo spiked when it started to warm up. Suddenly I was managing live operations all night and trying to produce a full day's worth of mission planning. Something had to give. I'd come off shift scrambling to