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Army Cpl. Katelynne Pace, a combat medic specialist assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Alaska, performs a needle decompression on a simulated combat casualty during annual recertification at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 17, 2019. The medics utilized the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Exportable (TC3X) kit to maintain their skills and proficiency. The TC3X is a state of the art mannequin that mimics various traumatic scenarios, simulates human pulmonary and respiratory functions/distress, and augments realistic training by screaming, breathing, bleeding, moving, physiologically responding to treatments rendered and providing feedback data via recording sensors. Pace is a native of Brevard, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)