2014 US RAND RR750 Enhancing performance under stress - stress innocuation training in battlefield airmen
Technical Training. The training program provides sufficient opportunities to practice job skills under a variety of stressful conditions. However, strategies for stress reduction are provided only to PJs primarily during the initial PJ Indoctrination Course Inmost cases, these strategies are learned either on a trial-and-error basis, from other battlefield airmen, or through other nonsystematic ways. As mentioned above, certain training elements are introduced to enhance confidence and increase the level of stress experienced during training. Two of these particular components, water confidence and sleep deprivation, were identified as important elements to increase task difficulty and the stress of trainees.
