A call for a 21st-century battlefield stretcher

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U.S. military stretchers have not changed much since soldiers paired up to carry their wounded brothers-in-arms away from Civil War battlefields. That's why the Air Force's "Batman" lab for high-tech gadgets has issued a $15,000 challenge aimed at updating the technology so that just a single soldier can safely move a casualty to a helicopter.

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