Before this class I never took into perspective the amount of sleep our military loses due to war. The article I found the most intriguing was Los Angeles Times', Winning, but Really Feeling Beat. This article took statements from two military scientist who have studied sleep in the military. The scientists go over the problems they are constantly seeing in the field. One statement that really put things into perspective was "Fatigue may be a factor in 'friendly fire' deaths, accidents and battlefield errors." To think that some of our very own soldiers have lost their lives due to fatigue is unfathomable.
Melissa Healy, “Winning, but Feeling Really Beat,” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2003 (http://articles.latimes.com/print/2003/apr/07/news/war-sleep7)
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