Deployment Threats to Rapid Deployment Forces

摘要

This paper is one of a series of occasional, informal accounts of work in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. The reports generally address topics in Army preventive medicine for which implementation responsibility lies significantly outside the Medical Department. Contents includes: Jet Lag and Biological Rhythms; Conceptual and Technical Framework; Pre-Notification Period; Preparations for Deployment; Peer and Dependent Support Systems; Continuing Medical Activities; Preliminary Dietary Countermeasures; Drugs; Preparing for Embarkation; Embarkation: Shelter and Rest; Embarkation: Dietary Discipline; In-Flight Problems; Supporting the Countermeasures In-Flight; Delays Enroute; Arrival Countermeasures; Planning Shiftwork in a Sustained Operation; and Evaluating a Post's Social Supports. (Author)