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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine is housed on a leafy, waterside post at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., alongside a handful of other military research and development agencies. As the Defense Department’s lead research lab for operational medicine it studies the physiological effects that rations, clothes and gear have on soldiers.

The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine is housed on a leafy, waterside post at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., alongside a handful of other military research and development agencies. As the Defense Department’s lead research lab for operational medicine it studies the physiological effects that rations, clothes and gear have on soldiers.

The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine is housed on a leafy, waterside post at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., alongside a handful of other military research and development agencies. As the Defense Department’s lead research lab for operational medicine it studies the physiological effects that rations, clothes and gear have on soldiers.

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