In the idiosyncratic culture of the Navy’s surface fleet, a strange custom has persisted for years: Working sailors to the bone. On ships at sea, officers and senior enlisted leaders have ignored the fact that a lack of sleep jeopardizes individual performance and unit readiness.
Sailors on ships are often told that Navy life is hard, so suck it up.
Yes, Navy life is hard. But most everyone else in the military believes that getting enough rest is a good thing. The Army and Marine Corps know that troops need sleep to maintain peak performance. In the Air Force and even in Naval aviation, sleep is essential for pilots and air crews. A few years ago, even the Navy submarine community adopted new sleep regulations.
So it was welcome news when the Navy announced recently that the surface fleet would issue new sleep and watch schedule rules.
Too bad it took two catastrophic collisions and the loss of 17 sailors to prompt it.
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The crew of the Research Vessel Petrel, led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is on a roll.
The Defense Department on March 8 announced that troops deployed to Niger, Mali and northern Cameroon qualify to receive imminent danger pay/hostile fire pay, retroactive to June 7, 2017.
The other services should pay attention.
The daggers flew this weekend when a disparaging military rant by a California high school teacher went viral.
A technical sergeant from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada came under fire recently after she shared a racially-charged, expletive-laced rant to Facebook.
Experts say leaking the draft opinion likely wasn’t a crime, and the former Army colonel's investigative tools are limited.
Partial dislocation allowance will defray some of the costs of moving off post when troops have to leave barracks.
Legislation would promise veterans get the same increase as Social Security recipients later this year.
Denmark will arm Ukraine with with modern Harpoon anti-ship missiles to protect its coasts, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday after concluding the latest U.S.-led meeting of international defense chiefs to coordinate military aid for Ukraine.
Public attendance at ceremonies had been limited the last two years by the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden, at a news conference in Tokyo, said “yes” when asked if he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded.
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of May 23, 2022.
President Joe Biden authorized the use of Air Force planes for the effort, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” because no commercial flights were available.
As of Saturday, the Air Force is the only military academy, so far, where cadets are not being commissioned due to vaccine refusal.
Belarusians are among those who have answered a call for foreign fighters to join the International Legion for the Territorial Defense of Ukraine.
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