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Press Release | April 13, 2026

WRAIR’s iCOVER bolsters resilience in the face of drone attacks

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s iCOVER training has been shown to maintain combat effectiveness and bolster resilience, and recent reports from Ukraine indicate the particular usefulness of the technique for service members under attack by drones.

Research from WRAIR’s Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience shows that 1 in 6 deployed service members report being so overwhelmed by combat stress that they stop functioning. WRAIR’s iCOVER is an easily-fielded technique to quickly identify team members who are freezing up and get them back on-mission.

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