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Indeed. However, the question I must ask is: why would the military invest in the millions necessary for each of these things when they already have plenty of low-level able warm-bodies that are already doing it? I am reminded of reading in the Military Times, I believe, many years ago about an E-7 that decided to purchase a riding lawn mower to help with area maintenance. He was charged with unnecessary expenditure of monetary (military) resources and the cost of it came out of his pay.

However, the genuine Teak desk in the CO's office, well, no one dared to question THAT.

So long as the military has lower ranks that can be ordered to perform countless menial tasks to keep them occupied, they see no need for any labor-saving devices. Got a cargo container full of items that need to be moved to storage? Why invest in a conveyor system that requires three people at most to man it and get things stowed, when you can call up a working party and do it that way.

Need something trekked that the 125-pound (or lighter) "serviceperson" can't manage on her own? That's what the rest of us big strong OTHER members are for. Stiff up, take the load, and get the job done. If that means you take up more because certain others can't, well, tough. Suck it up.

I really do not see any such machine appearing on the battlefield any time soon. Or later, even.