Posted on Mar 12, 2015
Did you ever read FM 22-9 Soldier Performance in Continuous Operations?
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FM 22-9 Soldier Performance in Continuous Operations, 12 December 1991
Executive Summary:
I read FM 22-9 when I was young and I found it to be informative. Many have misapplied lessons about endurance over the years. Some leaders have mistakenly believed that the preferred practice was to employ Soldiers in exhaustive conditions. There is a time and place for Continuous, Exhaustive training but these are usually best placed at the end of a training cycle as a culminating event. Indeed we should train for the worst of conditions and I am an advocate for challenging your system to the point of failure. Critical is the end point of failure which must be properly anticipated and mitigation planned for risk. Reality may require Continuous operations in war and again exhaustion must be anticipated with a relief planned to prevent culmination of a unit without protection and support. Unexpected culmination in training can lead to the loss of life and in combat can lead to in best case mission failure and in the worst case mass casualties. Considering this the Army invested resources and in 1991 published the FM 22-9 Soldier Performance in Continuous Operations to address the consideration of sustained operations.
I have provided a copy of FM 22-9 at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qkvlivshdhhvpi7/AAD7N6xlV5JjHIUKdd98zE7Ga?dl=0
I will be reposting latter as a long contribution
Executive Summary:
I read FM 22-9 when I was young and I found it to be informative. Many have misapplied lessons about endurance over the years. Some leaders have mistakenly believed that the preferred practice was to employ Soldiers in exhaustive conditions. There is a time and place for Continuous, Exhaustive training but these are usually best placed at the end of a training cycle as a culminating event. Indeed we should train for the worst of conditions and I am an advocate for challenging your system to the point of failure. Critical is the end point of failure which must be properly anticipated and mitigation planned for risk. Reality may require Continuous operations in war and again exhaustion must be anticipated with a relief planned to prevent culmination of a unit without protection and support. Unexpected culmination in training can lead to the loss of life and in combat can lead to in best case mission failure and in the worst case mass casualties. Considering this the Army invested resources and in 1991 published the FM 22-9 Soldier Performance in Continuous Operations to address the consideration of sustained operations.
I have provided a copy of FM 22-9 at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qkvlivshdhhvpi7/AAD7N6xlV5JjHIUKdd98zE7Ga?dl=0
I will be reposting latter as a long contribution
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Sir,
Thank you for posting this. It's an interesting read.
For those who might not be aware, there is a current version of this publication. It's FM 6-22.5, Combat and Operational Stress Control Manual for Leaders and Soldiers, published 18 March 2009.
Thank you for posting this. It's an interesting read.
For those who might not be aware, there is a current version of this publication. It's FM 6-22.5, Combat and Operational Stress Control Manual for Leaders and Soldiers, published 18 March 2009.
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Well done young lady! I am impressed, when are you going to get promoted?
Well done young lady! I am impressed, when are you going to get promoted?
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This is a great Field Manual MAJ (Join to see), I am glad you brought it forward. This was a subject we used to study and teach, everyone talks sleep plans (especially when going through our National Training Centers) when we know we are going to push ourselves, like during deployments. It is worth more than being limited to just a deployment or major training exercise. Very good information including the degraded performance as well as the compounded effect of lack of rest. Great information to share with the force!
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MAJ (Join to see)
For that reason I am giving it a long commentary, including relationship to lessons learned from WWII and Korea. Why Ranger was founded and its original intent (you do not have to go there to learn but it is an excellerated compression experences of what can learn elsewhere) some people miss the lessons. The relation to old CTC training models from the 80s and 90s. ETC. Thank you for the feedback.
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My timelines are fuzzy. I've read bits & pieces of this over the years (resulting in eventually absorbing most of it), but I think my take away from it was sleep deprivation affects us on par, if not worse than alcohol. Losing 2~ hours of sleep per night for a week straight will impair your judgement at the same level of being at the "legal limit."
Add to that the stresses of heat, and you have a dangerous physiological cocktail. Every 20 degrees of temperature basically makes your body work twice as hard for the same benefit.
Add to that the stresses of heat, and you have a dangerous physiological cocktail. Every 20 degrees of temperature basically makes your body work twice as hard for the same benefit.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Big thing about cold weather is that your body burns more energy staying warm, so it's a huge trade off compared to heat. Heat makes you "work" harder for the same effect, while cold makes you burn more fuel over the same amount of time.
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