TIPS ON COMBATING FATIGUE

Get up and walk around to get your blood flowing.

If you're doing a task where you can't get up, just flex your muscles.

Talk to a co-worker.

Strategically use caffeine before the critical phases of your mission, which can give you a slight boost of energy to get you through the short term.

Eating a snack, chewing gum and eating sunflower seeds are other ways to keep more alert.

But the best, and only true way, to combat fatigue is to get some sleep.

--- 1st Lt. Michael Armstrong