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Fatigue
Data from J.N. Nielsen and colleagues advance knowledge in fatigue
August 18th, 2007
According to recent research from Roskilde, Denmark, "From the early 1990s and onwards, the Danish military has been increasingly active in the hot spots of the world as part of UN or coalition forces, for example, in the Balkans, Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan. This has also included deployment of an F-16 unit in relation to the conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the pilots had to cope with very long missions in a single seat fighter." "It is well known in the fighter community that at least one nation has a policy to issue amphetamines for this use, when missions are foreseen to last more than a set number of hours, etc., and it was necessary to decide whether...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2007-08-18)
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