“…At least, synthetic experiences provide a less costly, yet effective, modality teaching complex skills, including interpersonal communication between persons of same and different cultural backgrounds (Zbylut et al, 2007). Likewise, training involving synthetic environments has shown skill improvement in adaptive thinking (Shadrick, Crabb, Lussier, & Burke, 2007) and responding to crises (Shadrick, Schaefer, & Beaubien, 2007;Schaefer, Shadrick, Beaubien, & Crabb, 2008). When overlaid with proper training techniques and objectives, increasingly powerful synthetic training experiences may provide an effective learning experience (FM 7-0).…”