Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week, if there’s any one thing each one of us shares, it’s the need for sleep. The need for truly restful sleep – and the lack of getting enough it – has become a core issue for the US Navy in recent years, especially following the 2017 destroyer collisions where fatigue was cited as a key factor in how fatal mistakes were made. A new sleep policy was issued late last year by the Navy directing changes in watch schedules to give sailor more rest, but challenges remain in implementing real changes while at sea aboard a 24/7 warship. We’ll talk with the US Navy’s top sleep expert, Dr John Cordle, a retired Navy Capitan, about what’s needed, what the Navy is trying to do, and whether or not it’s working.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas has France on his mind.

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