Lieutenant General James M. Gavin in his 1947 book, Airborne Warfare: www.combatreform.com/airbornewarfare.htm explained that the most efficient way to be loaded and ready-to-fight is to already be in a KIWI POD; and the fastest way to get this stuff to the ground is not to pull it out break-bulk from inside a fuselage but to DROP THE ENTIRE KIWI POD. If you drop the pod, you don't have risks of getting caught up inside the fuselage. We have Gavin's KIWI pods today--they are called ISO shipping containers. These containers can be made into "BATTLERBOXes" for specific Army missions like being bunkers for troops to live in as well as carry everything the Army needs to fight etc. The early-model Sikorsky CH-54 SkyCrane VTOL helicopter was ahead of its time but required special expensive lightweight pods to conserve its limited 15-ton payload that the Army couldn't afford to buy. The Army today doesn't need costly single-application pods, there are millions of ISOs that can travel by...