Strategies for Sustaining Soldier and Unit Performance in Continuous Operations.

Abstract

This paper, submitted in a special study of Army conduct of continuous operations (CONOPS), contains a detailed list of human factors principles and recommendations for sustaining performance of soldiers in CONOPS and include coverage of topics like: training and preparation for CONOPS; sleep scheduling, recovery sleep concepts, work/rest scheduling, naps and sleep discipline, sleep-inducing drugs for use in long range deployments, alertness sustaining drugs for use in CONOPS, lightening the soldier's load, nutrition, and physical fitness for military tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA189501

Entities

People

  • Donald B. Headley
  • Gerald P. Krueger
  • Gregory Belenky
  • Robert E. Solick
  • Thomas J Balkin

Organizations

  • Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Personnel
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Deployment
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Employment
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Psychology
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Situational Awareness
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Social Sciences
  • Training
  • Warfare

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