{"id":65051,"date":"2016-03-31T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65051"},"modified":"2016-03-31T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:36:46","slug":"we-do-more-before-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65051","title":{"rendered":"We do more before noon&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when &#8220;we do more before 9AM than most people do all day&#8221; was a selling point for Army recruiting? Well according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/03\/21\/army-bases-policy-to-let-soldiers-sleep-in-benefits-their-health-report-finds.html?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&#038;intcmp=obnetwork\">Fox News<\/a> that may be a part of history as Fort Carson dabbles in later &#8220;first calls&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Carson\u2019s policy to allow soldiers to begin work later and exercise in the afternoon during a 2014 pilot program was one of several factors that made it stand out in the Health of Force report.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The change in the Fort Carson exercise schedule, a 2014 experiment at the post, was credited for countering the Army&#8217;s chronic problem with sleep deprivation. [Col. Deydre Teyhen, assistant chief of staff for the Army Medical Specialists Corps] and other experts say a lack of rest is one of the Army&#8217;s biggest health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sleeping much worse than the average American,&#8221; she said, noting that 85 percent of soldiers lack adequate sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Carson experiment allowed soldiers to sleep in by moving physical training, normally conducted before sunrise, to the end of the duty day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, even after I got out of the Army, I still liked getting my PT in early in the day than have it looming at me throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to HMC Ret for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when &#8220;we do more before 9AM than most people do all day&#8221; was a selling &hellip; <a title=\"We do more before noon&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65051\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We do more before noon&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}