{"id":21976,"date":"2011-01-25T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21976"},"modified":"2011-01-25T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:19:13","slug":"an-iphone-app-for-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21976","title":{"rendered":"An iPhone app for troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. Jonathan J. Springer from Fort Wayne, IN said it came to him a dream, then he spent $26,000 of his own money to develop an application for the iPhone to help soldiers navigate and call for indirect fire. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/01\/25\/targeting-taliban-iphone-app\/#ixzz1C4Ilg35g\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tactical Nav, which is expected to be available through Apple\u2019s App Store next month, assists soldiers in mapping, plotting and photographing waypoints on a battleground and conveying coordinates to supporting units.<\/p>\n<p>Springer used a variety of armored vehicles, remote observation posts and harsh combat conditions to test the accuracy of his invention, which can also be used to direct artillery fire on enemy positions or call in helicopter support.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knows what soldiers need more than soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. Jonathan J. Springer from Fort Wayne, IN said it came to him a dream, then &hellip; <a title=\"An iPhone app for troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21976\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An iPhone app for troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}