Sleep Management User's Guide for Special Operations Personnel

Abstract

The objective of sleep logistics is to ensure that fighting men and women at all levels obtain sufficient sleep to maintain combat effectiveness. Special warfare missions frequently involve night work and arduous operational schedules. This User's Guide explains selected sleep management techniques for use during military operations, with particular emphasis on special operations mission. The Guide will assist field commanders in using sleep logistics to prevent compromise of mission accomplishment due to sleep deprivation. In addition, it provides techniques for assessing severity of sleep debt and compensating for its ill effects... Sleep management, Sleep logistics, Sleep loss.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA267746

Entities

People

  • Paul Naitoh
  • Tamsin L. Kelly

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circadian Rhythms
  • Combat Effectiveness
  • Deprivation
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Jet Lag
  • Logistics
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations
  • Personnel Management
  • Signs And Symptoms
  • Sleep Deprivation
  • Standards
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Warfare
  • Workload

Readers

  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Systems Analysis and Design