Maj. Julie Thompson, a Uniformed Services University (USU) medical student, applies a combat action tourniquet to Elizabeth Weissbrod, a Medical Illustrator, at the Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE) lab, after Weissbord suffered a simulated arm wound during a virtual reality ambush scenario at the USU Val G. Hemming Simulation Center in Silver Spring, Md., April 3, 2017. In the WAVE, medical students like Thompson can repeatedly exercise the techniques they have learned in the classroom, while being exposed to combat stressors and chaotic situations they may experience when deployed.

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