{"id":115605,"date":"2020-11-07T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-us-military-is-eyeing-rocket-cargo-to-resupply-troops-anywhere-in-the-world-in-under-an-hour"},"modified":"2020-11-07T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T02:23:48","slug":"the-us-military-is-eyeing-rocket-cargo-to-resupply-troops-anywhere-in-the-world-in-under-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-us-military-is-eyeing-rocket-cargo-to-resupply-troops-anywhere-in-the-world-in-under-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"The US military is eyeing \u2018rocket cargo\u2019 to resupply troops anywhere in the world in under an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-military-is-eyeing-rocket-cargo-to-resupply-troops-anywhere-in-the-world-in-under-an-hour.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine this scenario: You\u2019re deployed to some godforsaken hellhole downrange, in desperate need of additional ammo and chow. You call your superior officer for a very special airdrop: with approval from the U.S. Transportation Command, your cargo is launched into low earth orbit in a rocket-assisted payload. Within an hour, voila \u2014 fresh 5.56mm rounds and some delicious pizza MRE, ready to refresh your arsenal and renew your spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of space-borne resupply pods may seem like something out of science-fiction but it could someday be a reality for troops downrange, <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/spacex-rocket-cargo\">according<\/a> to Army officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this scenario: You\u2019re deployed to some godforsaken hellhole downrange, in desperate need of additional ammo and chow. You call your superior officer for a very special airdrop: with approval from the U.S. Transportation Command, your cargo is launched into low earth orbit in a rocket-assisted payload. Within an hour, voila \u2014 fresh 5.56mm rounds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}