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?

You suck it up and show up for PT. When the Command asks for your opinion or do a Command Climate survey, then you respectfully address the problem. PT is not a voluntary thing, duty is not a voluntary thing. You volunteered for this way of life, showing up for PT after a few hours of sleep is easy.

I can remember when I was in the NCO Academy one of my soldiers rolled out for PT a little worse for wear. But, he soldiered through the session and two mile run.
When did the Army start “bankers hours?” PT was mandatory for everyone at 0530, no exceptions.
If you don’t understand the time management concept then maybe you should find a different MOS or have manned up a bit before joining the service. Back in the day we were trained to accept that you may not get your “beauty sleep”, three squares a day, or even a warm clean bunk.
What the hell happened to our military?

when in the trenches, you might not get 4-5 hrs of sleep

I once was up for almost 56 hours straight. I put in a special request chit for 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep. It was denied. The XO wrote on the chit, "he will get enough sleep when he is dead". That is now my motto. Suck it up buttercup.

I have to go with a lot of comments on this thread see I say working in the hospital setting seems to me you would have special times because when you get called in I imagine you are up and in there to take care of the best and most important part of the Army and that is the soldiers see most of us brought the less then two or three hours because of the clubs or being with that girl you are going out with or the skating rink or the colleges around the base where was I going with this o yeah lmao you working should not have to get liquor gas in your mouth from running pt in formation that is why I used to get the road guard vest lol I really hope you get this solved soldier but in the mean time keep a stiff upper lip and use your head to figure it out

You are whining, and in the military. Time to grow up. Sorry to sound harsh, but having spent 20 years in the Army with 10 deployments, complaining about having to go do PT is just too much.

I spent thirty-one years in the Army and learned two important lessons:
1) Eat whenever you can!
2) Sleep whenever you can!
BECAUSE you never know when the next opportunity will arise.
As anyone from PVT to COL in the 226th MEDLOG Battalion would tell you;
STOP YOUR WHINING AND GET TO WORK!!!

Oh and like SGT Cameron, I'm in my 70's

No one ever said that the duty day had to be on 'your' schedule. You are on the verge of becoming a Non-Commissioned Officer; act like you are one now and figure out your time management- either choose to adjust to the needs of the command or tell your first line supervisor that you are not NCO material. NCOs make life and death decisions EVERY DAY- if you cant make a decision on how to work around the problem, how are you going to do that with the lives of America's most precious asset- your Soldiers?

Suck it up is a non answer. Since you are working a hospital shift you're obviously not working a schedule like the majority of most soldiers. Your 1SG is new to the unit and doesn't understand the current state of operations. I would bring it back up to your supervisor and see if a compromise can be reached. If that doesn't work, ask to use the open door policy with the commander. If you do use the open door policy, bring a couple plans with you that would allow you to work PT into your daily routine. Don't just show up and say I'm not being treated fairly, have a suggestion for a resolution, otherwise it will only sound like you are complaining. Just make sure you give your NCO support channel a chance to fix things before you go to the open door option.

Are you in the military? If the answer is Yes, suck it up buttercup. What do you think your schedule will be if Biden sucks us into WW3?