I am being told to go to PT by the command on only 4-5 hours of sleep. As a junior enlisted, how do I solve this problem?

Forever, Medical and other shift type MOS's have had issues with maintaining high APFT scores. It's been a challenge for Command teams to ensure companies get the opportunity to do organized athletics. clearly you have at least one senior NCO that can advocate for you to the command team. He or she is in the same boat. With the New challenging Physical fitness test in place, and unit stats being everything, I'm sure the NEW command teams intentions are pure. Soldiers inclinations, unfortunately, are to avoid PT rather that do it in their off time. CDR/1SG's have to answer to higher when scores are low, or soldiers fail. if an Organized program isn't implemented and enforced, they fail. By regulation, a program must exist. It can't be: Soldiers will do PT on their own. You work an 8 hour shift, an hour at each end for personal hygiene, transportation, etc. That gives you 14 hours to do what else you please. I spent 32 in and in charge of Infantry Units. I'd have loved that luxury.

The military is not for everyone. If you can't hang with 4 to 5 hours, wait until you go three dats with none while deployed. Dont make your life miserable as well as those around you. Sounds like the candle burnt out and the time to focus on burning a different one has arrived.

One answer: follow orders and suck it up. Period.

Bring it up with your platoon sergeant. In the meantime, suck it up!

You sound exactly like you are whining. You should have no problem functioning for PT for an hour or two and then if you want to go back to sleep you can. Four to five hours of sleep is a luxury to a lot of people and most function on that amount on a regular bases. PT is part of military life if you don't like it, when your time is up get out and you won't have to worry about mandatory PT sessions.

Regulations support your First Sergeant. Pt is only one of 24 hours in a day. Put on your big boy pants and suck it up, buttercup.

As you stated you have two options to report to formation. One at 0530 or the other at 1600. So why couldn't you report to the 1600 formation then go to work? Even if you had to get up at 0515, put on a PT uniform and stand in a 0530 formation. You still have logged roughly four hours of sleep. Stand in the formation for 15 minutes, then go back to bed.

What a crock, it seems like a blizzard with a lot of snowflakes. Get a life,but of course you will never see combat RIGHT, try days w/o much sleep,humping 60-80 # up and down whatever, MRE's and little water - also seems like a breakdown in the chain. The policy was stated but not really enforced. Get out of the Army and join the boy scouts - When you got incoming you see how fast your sorry butt will run.

You are in the Army, you will be called upon to perform multiple missions with a lack of sleep. So suck it up and go get after it.

My question would be, how is the rest of your section handling it or are you the only one struggling? If it's the section, you might be able to work out an exception to policy but that sounds like a good amount of sleep to me.

I do agree with others here, easiest solution is just show up and sound off then sleep around pt.