Posted on Oct 16, 2014
Do you have deployment behaviors that are now part of your normal life?
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Was thinking about this last night - in Afghanistan, we generally got casualties/rocket attacks between midnight-6AM, so I was obsessive about a few things to make sure that I at least got a little sleep, and I find I still do them now and it's become habit:
1) Eat/shave/shower before 6PM (never wait till morning or midnight chow if you can avoid it).
2) Kindle in place for movies. Bottle of water. All in place by 6:30-7PM so as to be able to sleep by 7:30-8PM.
3) Clothes ready. Whatever I need to put on is always staged so that I never have to look for anything.
4) All my gear (in CONUS it's cell phones and other BS) is also staged in one place so that it takes about 1 minute to have all my pockets filled.
1) Eat/shave/shower before 6PM (never wait till morning or midnight chow if you can avoid it).
2) Kindle in place for movies. Bottle of water. All in place by 6:30-7PM so as to be able to sleep by 7:30-8PM.
3) Clothes ready. Whatever I need to put on is always staged so that I never have to look for anything.
4) All my gear (in CONUS it's cell phones and other BS) is also staged in one place so that it takes about 1 minute to have all my pockets filled.
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Sir, I can relate to what you describe, but I don't attribute it to deployment. Based on my military career, and probably my life in general, I do some of the same things:
1. I'm kind of a fanatic about sleep, always do my best to get eight hours every night. This is probably a result of the six years I worked at the Pentagon, during which I had to get up at 0330 every morning.
2. I have my clothes ready to go the night before the next day - every day - so that when I get up, I'm all set. No looking for underwear, socks, etc.
3. I pack all my "stuff' (including wallet, phone, pocket stuff) in my backpack, which I take with me to work every day.
All of this routine planning the night before allows me to move out quickly every morning.
1. I'm kind of a fanatic about sleep, always do my best to get eight hours every night. This is probably a result of the six years I worked at the Pentagon, during which I had to get up at 0330 every morning.
2. I have my clothes ready to go the night before the next day - every day - so that when I get up, I'm all set. No looking for underwear, socks, etc.
3. I pack all my "stuff' (including wallet, phone, pocket stuff) in my backpack, which I take with me to work every day.
All of this routine planning the night before allows me to move out quickly every morning.
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