Just wondering. With having no recollection of it in the morning, and being around weapons and other people in a war zone. This might be a dangerous medical condition to send "down range." I am not in the military, (husband is) He doesn't sleepwalk, and is already deployed, but I just had that thought about sleepwalking and the hidden dangers while deployed!
2007-10-19 07:20:04 · 13 answers · asked by ssgjwyf 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I don't want anyone to think my husband sleepwalks or that it was something we didn't diclose if he does...OR that he was trying to get sent home. We are a VERY proud Army family. (even though we are NG!!!) I was reading a question in the children area of YAHOO about children with this problem, and I just got to thinking....."Wow, what would happen if....?"
2007-10-19 14:35:11 · update #1
It is a career ender. Enlistment standards clearly state that sleepwalking is a disqualifying condition, for exactly the reasons you point out.
For his life and safety, as well as those of everyone around him...he needs to self-identify to the medics and get this looked at. I'm sure you'd feel horrible if you sat on this and something happened to him or someone else.
MSgt, USAF (Retired)
2007-10-19 07:26:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being a chronic sleepwalker would disqualify you from service.
Any condition that would disqualify you from world wide duty would prevent you from coming in and if you are already in and it develops, they can discharge you on a medical discharge.
IF your husband developed that condition while deployed they probably would just handcuff him to some other guy at night so he can't sleep walk. It will not be a ticket to come home early.
Sorry.
2007-10-19 12:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deployment wouldnt be a problem.
The service member would be sent to a medical review to get evaluated, and probably provided meds or couseling to prevent the sleepwalking.
If the servicemember is in an MOS/location requiring constant "under arms" service, even while asleep, there would be someone up and about to prevent any problems with a suspicious sleepwalker.
Sleep walking usually comes with some sort of stress, so I imagine that it isnt all that unusual in a deployed unit, but Ihave never heard of it becoming a problem.
2007-10-19 07:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by photoguy_ryan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!
1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.
2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.
The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.
After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net
Ohhh..and Good Luck!
2014-09-17 11:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such a condition probably would be detected in basic training either that or he would be to dammed tired to sleep-walk after a hard days training,I do not believe he or she would ever get deployed without the condition being detected first.
2007-10-19 08:02:58 · answer #5 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It can actually lead to a discharge if its bad enough. Its considered a "defect" under the same category as dyslexia, homosexuality and learning problems. (its the Army, they are rediculous)
You would have to have a sleep study and psych eval done for anything to happen. My husband sleepwalks sometimes but the army doesn't think its serious enough to be a problem.
2007-10-19 07:28:13 · answer #6 · answered by PrincessJesci 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Any sort of major psychological or neurological illness will prevent you from being deployed. My friend got called in to go to Iraq after being dishonorably discharged two years before. He got off due to his anxiety/depression problem and severe insomnia.
2007-10-19 07:24:39 · answer #7 · answered by Maddy Jinx 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sleep walking would disqualify him from even being in the Army. When I was in Navy boot camp, one of my fellow recruits was a sleep walker, and he was discharged.
2007-10-20 13:13:59 · answer #8 · answered by That guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, he'd had to be diagnosed. That means they'd have to do extensive sleep-order studies on him to get the diagnosis. I agree it is a dangerous condition, but it's nothing that can be faked to get out of being deployed.
2007-10-19 07:23:23 · answer #9 · answered by Empress Jan 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sleep walking disqualifies you from joining the Navy for obvious reasons.
2007-10-19 08:41:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋