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Interior Design to Improve Combat Outposts

Christopher Gannon
"In Harm's Way" designers. Front row, from left: Maricel Lloyd, Josh Kassing, Lee Cagley. Back row: Miranda Spears, Alex Ausenhus; Yongyeon Cho, Zhenru Zhang, Nathan Thiese.

Iowa State University students have designed what they call a 21st century outpost, a barracks design created to alleviate post-traumatic stress in soldiers. 

On this River to River segment, host Ben Kieffer talks with ISU interior design professor Lee Cagley and graduate student Maricel Lloyd about the effectiveness and practicality of the designs. Iowa veteran Nathan Drake also joins the conversation.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River