SLEEP BANKING
Notes
1 . Tim Hrenchir , “ Army ‘ Triad ’ Pilot Program Encourages Soldiers to Take Better Care of Themselves ,” Topeka Capital-Journal online , 20 December 2015 , accessed 30 September 2016 , http :// cjonline . com / news / 2015-12-20 / army-triad-pilot-program-encourages-soldiers-take-better-care-themselves #.
2 . Army Medical Department , Performance Triad : A Leader ’ s Guide and Planner , Army Medicine website , accessed 30 September 2016 , http :// armymedicine . mil / Documents / Leaders- Guide _ Planner _ 08 _ 07 _ 2013 . pdf .
3 . Mark A . Milley , “ 39th Chief of Staff of the Army Initial Message to the Army ,” accessed 30 September 2016 , https :// www . army . mil / e2 / rv5 _ downloads / leaders / csa / Initial _ Message _ 39th _ CSA . pdf .
4 . Tracy Rupp et al ., “ Banking Sleep : Realization of Benefits During Subsequent Sleep Restriction and Recovery ,” Sleep 32 , no . 3 ( 2009 ): 311 – 21 .
5 . “ Circadian Rhythms Fact Sheet ,” National Institute of General Medical Sciences website , accessed 30 September 2016 , https :// www . nigms . nih . gov / Education / Pages / Factsheet _ Circadian- Rhythms . aspx . 6 . Rupp , “ Banking Sleep .” 7 . Wendy M . Troxel et al ., Sleep in the Military : Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U . S . Servicemembers ( Santa Monica , CA : RAND Corporation , 2015 ), 16 .
8 . Office of the Surgeon General ( OTSG ), Health of the Force , Army Public Health Center ( Provisional ) Health of the Force Report , November 2015 , 11 , accessed 30 September 2016 , https :// www . army . mil / e2 / c / downloads / 419337 . pdf . 9 . Ibid ., 5 . 10 . Ibid . 11 . Ibid ., 2 . 12 . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), “ Sleep and Sleep Disorders ,” CDC website , accessed 30 September 2016 , http :// www . cdc . gov / Sleep / index . html . 13 . OTSG , Health of the Force , 9 . 14 . Christopher P . Landrigan et al ., “ Effect of Reducing Interns ’ Work Hours on Serious Medical Errors in Intensive Care Units ,” New England Journal of Medicine 351 ( 2004 ): 1838 – 48 ; Cheri D . Mah et al ., “ The Effects of Sleep Extension on the Athletic Performance of Collegiate Basketball Players ,” Sleep 34 , no . 7 ( 2011 ): 943 – 50 ; Judith A . Owens , Katherine Belon , and Patricia Moss , “ Impact of Delaying School Start Time on Adolescent Sleep , Mood , and Behavior ,” Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 164 , no . 7 ( 2010 ): 608 – 14 ; Shantha M . W . Rajaratnam et al ., “ Sleep Disorders , Health , Safety in Police Officers ,” Journal of American Medical Association 306 , no . 23 ( 2011 ): 2567 – 78 .
15 . Bradley Fighting Vehicle ( BFV ) gunnery tables range from table I ( crew critical skills ) to table XII ( platoon qualification ). Gunnery table VI is crew qualification , executed by individual BFV crews ( in subsequent tables , BFVs operate in teams ). Table VI entails engaging moving and stationary targets with all weapon systems ( main gun and machine guns ) while stationary and moving .
16 . Owens , Belon , and Moss , “ Impact of Delaying School Start Time .”
17 . Robert Abrams , U . S . Army Forces Command ( FORSCOM ) Command Training Guidance , 19 October 2015 , cited in OTSG , Health of the Force , 6 .
Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion , 4th Infantry Division , led by their commander , Lt . Col . Brad Wambeke , participate in a fourmile installation run 4 June 2012 on Fort Carson , Colorado . ( Photo by Staff Sgt . Andrew Porch , U . S . Army )
Sleep Emphasis on Fort Carson
A sleep experiment similar to 1st Infantry Division ’ s drew praise from Army health officials , according to a story in the Denver Post . 1 In 2014 , Fort Carson ’ s leadership changed the standard duty day to allow soldiers to come into work later and conduct physical fitness training at the end of the day instead of first thing in the morning , as is the norm across the Army .
Col . Deydre Teyhen , the Army ’ s assistant deputy chief of staff for public health , cited the Fort Carson program in an interview with Federal News Radio : “ Our best example probably is at Fort Carson , where they started reverse-cycle physical training . They do PT at the end of the day instead of in the morning . Not only do they get more sleep , it allowed soldiers to help get the kids ready for school and spend some time with the family before everybody went out the door . It ’ s been a huge success , not only for the families but for the soldiers , because we know that being sleep deprived by four hours decreases your maximum bench press by twenty pounds . If we want to get the most out of unit PT , doing that at a time when they ’ re not sleep deprived is the way to do it . We ’ re seeing pockets of success and I think it ’ s going to continue to grow .” 2
Unfortunately , the program was curtailed due to “ epic traffic jams ” caused by “ about twenty thousand soldiers ” conducting physical training on Fort Carson ’ s roads during high-traffic periods for civilian employees . 3
Notes
1 . “ Study Credits Fort Carson for Letting Soldiers Sleep In ,” Denver Post , updated 9 June 2016 , accessed 9 November 2016 , http :// www . denverpost . com / 2016 / 03 / 20 / study-credits-fort-carson-for-letting-soldiers-sleep-in /.
2 . Jared Serbu , “ Army Drills Down on Health of Its Force , Finds It Needs More Sleep ,” Federal News Radio , 18 March 2016 , accessed 9 November 2016 , http :// federalnewsradio . com / army / 2016 / 03 / army-drills-health-force-finds -needs-sleep /.
3 . “ Study Credits Fort Carson .”
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