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Sleep technician Chris Taylor, left, asks Capt. David Raines questions before spending an hour to attach 27 senors on his body for a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. Raines suspects he suffers from sleep apnea. After a decade of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, many service members like Raines struggle with sleep issues said Lt. Col. Vincent Mysliwiec, the chief of sleep medicine at Magidan. (JANET JENSEN)
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Twenty seven senors are attached to Capt. David Raines' head and body to conduct a polysomnogram (PSG). Raines, 35, of Lacey who's deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan says he manages only a few hours of rest each night. Mysliwiec suspects many service members develop hyper vigilance at war because they not in a safe-sleep environment. And once they return home their brains continue this alertness that he suspects leads to cases of 'paradoxical insomnia'. (JANET JENSEN)
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After completing the installation of most of the senors, sleep technician Chris Taylor, right, chats with Capt. David Raines during a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. (JANET JENSEN)
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Capt. David Raines looks up at the device that will be inserted into his nose during a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. (JANET JENSEN)
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Senors will record many of Capt. David Raines' body functions including brain activity, eye movements, muscle activity, heart rhythm and respiratory airflow during sleep at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. (Janet Jensen/Staff photographer). (JANET JENSEN)
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A senor is attached to Capt. David Raines' leg during a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. (JANET JENSEN)
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A total of twenty seven senors are attached to Capt. David Raines' body before the lights are shut out and he's asked to try and sleep normally during a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. Raines suspects he suffers from sleep apnea. (JANET JENSEN)
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Capt. David Rainies of Lacey, beds down for the night with 27 probes attached to his body during a sleep study at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wednesday January 30, 2013. To the naked eye the room is dark-- the ambient room light is captured by a twenty second camera exposure time. (JANET JENSEN)
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Lt. Col. Vincent Mysliwiec M.D., Madigan Army Medical Center's chief of sleep medicine, reviews the results of a sleep study with patient Col. Stephen Bolt, at Joint Base Lewis McChord, January 25, 2013. Mysliwiec is publishing a study that describes how combat tours affect sleep patterns. (JANET JENSEN)
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Lt. Col. Vincent Mysliwiec M.D., Madigan Army Medical Center's chief of sleep medicine shows the results of a recent sleep study at Joint Base Lewis McChord, January 25, 2013. Mysliwiec is publishing a study that describes how combat tours affect sleep patterns. He suspects combat veterans are plagued by sleep problems after living at war where 'They need to be hyper vigilant.' Other sleep problems are caused in part by post-tramatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. (JANET JENSEN)
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