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U.S. military works on building a better meal for the troops

WUNC News | By Jay Price
Published June 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM EDT

The drone-infested battlefields of modern warfare and the need to make troops' loads lighter has the U.S. military looking for new forms of field rations, like ways to make protein on the front lines.

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Jay Price
Jay Price has specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade.