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t around 3am. I try to avoid it these days.Many years ago on a promotion course in the RAF I went 5 days with maybe a couple of hours sleep (stood up in a trench). Add in digging that trench in the first place, lots of patrols and battle drills as well as orders groups and admin as well as several weeks of build up to that point. That's hard work but nothing compared to Ops.
Longest I've done was 27 ish hours; it was coming back from the New York at the end of a holiday.
Woke up at around 7am, flight wasn't till 9pm; 12 hours, 5 hour flight and unable to sleep; 17 hours, arrived in the UK around 10am, decided we would try our best to stay awake till the evening so as not to get jet lag, we had things to do so was kept occupied, finally hit the sack at 8pm; 10 hours later; 27 hours awake.
I was knackered.
Woke up at around 7am, flight wasn't till 9pm; 12 hours, 5 hour flight and unable to sleep; 17 hours, arrived in the UK around 10am, decided we would try our best to stay awake till the evening so as not to get jet lag, we had things to do so was kept occupied, finally hit the sack at 8pm; 10 hours later; 27 hours awake.
I was knackered.
You actually had a guide in the Military as part of your TAM which told you how much work or how effective a soldier would be throughout various stages of sleep deprivation, I cannot find the guide but here is a snippit from an Australian white paper:
Physical Effects
The physical effects of sleep deprivation are not as severe as the mental effects which after a prolonged period of sleep deprivation will eventually render a soldier useless.
As a guide, the Australian army works on the basis that if purely physical work (such as digging or loading artillery) is being carried out then it is possible for soldiers to function on 3 hours of sleep per 24 hours for 9-14 days.
However, if the work is mostly mental (operating radios, planning missions) then the requirement is 4 hours of sleep per 24 hours and this can only be sustained for 4-6 days before the soldier is ineffective.
Once these limits are reached it is advised that soldiers are allowed a period of extended rest. Whether or not this is feasible will depend on the tactical situation.
And this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_sleep_dep...
Physical Effects
The physical effects of sleep deprivation are not as severe as the mental effects which after a prolonged period of sleep deprivation will eventually render a soldier useless.
As a guide, the Australian army works on the basis that if purely physical work (such as digging or loading artillery) is being carried out then it is possible for soldiers to function on 3 hours of sleep per 24 hours for 9-14 days.
However, if the work is mostly mental (operating radios, planning missions) then the requirement is 4 hours of sleep per 24 hours and this can only be sustained for 4-6 days before the soldier is ineffective.
Once these limits are reached it is advised that soldiers are allowed a period of extended rest. Whether or not this is feasible will depend on the tactical situation.
And this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_sleep_dep...
Where office workers are concerned I think this is a very British thing to do.
'I was in the office until nine o'clock yesterday evening'.
"awaits commendable responses"
Over here, in the civilised world if you said that to a colleague you'd be asked why you couldn't do your job properly.
'I was in the office until nine o'clock yesterday evening'.
"awaits commendable responses"
Over here, in the civilised world if you said that to a colleague you'd be asked why you couldn't do your job properly.
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