Photo courtesy U.S. Army.

While the rest of us were bunkering in on Saturday to attend to a long-neglected Netflix queue, this unnamed Tomb Sentinel with the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery was simply taking his tour of duty, guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns while Hurricane Irene pelted the region with heavy winds and rainfall. Over 80 percent of the soldiers who try out for tomb guarding duty don’t make the cut — seeing as how “guarding the tomb during natural disasters” is part of the job description, we can understand why.