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Lt. Joshua Grimes, physician assistant with Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) 7 , drags a simulated casualty to safety during a tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) familiarization scenario as part of the ERSS course at Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center Apr. 14. The scenario incorporates realistic moulage, role players, and battlefield effects to enhance trauma response and prepare the team for operational deployment in austere environments. Grimes talks about the battle effects and says, “It really heightened up the desire and the need to really pay attention and focus on the patients. I have never experienced anything like that at any other simulations, so I thought it was phenomenal especially when you felt the “boom” in your chest.” (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kwame Obengyeboah)