Sleep Management in Sustained Operations User's Guide
Abstract
This report describes a sleep management (sleep logistics) guide for field commanders who are responsible for leading men and women to achieve mission objectives in a sustained operation. This Sleep Management User's Guide consists of four major sections with a final section for conclusions/summary. Section 1 introduces challenges which the field commanders are facing in sustained operation: management of men and women under his command so as to keep them combat effective days and nights over the duration of sustained operations without proper rest and sleep. Section 2 offers details of what are sustained operations and sleep management, and then explains what kinds of work/rest-sleep and sleep loss problems occur during the pre-deployment, deployment, pre-combat, combat and post-combat phases. Section 3 reviews three ways by which sleep management copes with performance degradation caused by work/rest-sleep and sleep loss problems: identifying the signs of, preventing, and over-coming performance degradation. Section 4 details five psychophysiological techniques by which field commanders manage sleep in field training to assure optimal task performance of men and women under their charge during a future sustained operation. These techniques are: (1) to see if mission requires sleep management, (2) to recognize signs of degradation, (3) to know tolerance to sleep loss, (4) to develop self-control to sleep when the must, and (5) to use aids to measure sleep loss effects. In addition, sleep management requires field commanders to learn more facts about the human need for sleep.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA173050
Entities
People
- Carl E. Englund
- David H. Ryman
- Paul Naitoh
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center