Sgt. Christy Van Druen, a soldier with the Missouri Army National Guard Medical Detachment, pulls a needle through a suture she placed in a pig leg during a suturing class on Aug. 1, 2015, at the Ike Skelton Training Site in Jefferson City, Mo. Van Druen was one of several soldiers who learned how to place sutures and staples in the pigs to simulate wounds on human patients. ( Army photo by Pfc. Samantha J. Whitehead)

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