Still, that would definitely come in handy... You wouldn't have to send another soldier in as close to the danger to help out another. [Or leave them for dead, as so often the choice chokes down to.] Four or five people is a lot more than the one extra body you might be able to safely carry with the maneuver gear, if worse comes to worse.

[But these are more what-ifs, more impossibilities that can never make the leap to reality, not in that hell of a world.]