Getting shot at by Taliban fighters and must be call an air strike? There's an app for that.
Tactical Nav may be downloaded to a smartphone to figure out where an challenger is banishment from, and to call in an air strike or casing fire.
It was combined by US armed forces skipper Jonathan Springer after two of his comrades were killed in a space station attack.
He says it is as exact as any technology now in use is to same purpose, and far cheaper too.
Captain Springer is back in his Indiana home after a 12-month debate in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne.
Over a beer, he remembers depressed comrades - and two in particular.
"Specialist Plunk and Specialist Thompson. We were in the Pesh River Valley. They took a rocket. Died instantly."
Those deaths, he said, got him thinking.
"What can we do to help stop something similar to this in future?"
His answer was to emanate the Tactical Nav app, that infantry can download to their smartphones.
"It combines 3 components," he said.
"A compass, a map, and a camera. It's flattering elementary - but clearly it does a small more than that."
He mentioned he's tested his app against all now in use in Afghanistan - and claimed it is only as accurate.
The app is written to give soldiers exact co-ordinates for where challenger glow is forthcoming from.
They can then send that data to their order centre, who will confirm either to call in an air strike, or send a rescue helicopter to help bleeding troops.
"The initial time we attempted it for real," he said, "I sighed with relief.
"I could have got in to difficulty - but it worked.
"As a glow encouragement officer, we take in to fighting a compass, binoculars, a map, a protractor, a GPS device - a subordinate GPS device in box a fails - and batteries.
"What this does is, it combines all these components, and throws it in to only the a app," he said.
But Captain Springer mentioned he'd been unhappy that his US armed forces bosses hadn't taken more of an fascination in the idea.
He mentioned he had outlayed about 20,000 (more than $30,000) of his own allowance - and that he asked the military for financial support.
"I emailed the armed forces saying, 'I'm not seeking for a pay-cheque, but are there any type of grants or anything you can help me with?'
"They said, 'sorry, we do not have the supports correct now'."
Captain Springer mentioned he was "very frustrated" by that response. He called it "a slap in the face".
"It unequivocally hurts since I'm carrying out something is to troops. But it only motivates me to continue."
The US military didn't reply when Newsbeat asked them for a comment.
In the UK, the Ministry of Defence says it's "actively exploring" ways to use smartphones in recruitment and training, together with on the battlefield.
Now, Captain Springer is selling his app to any person that wants it - on the iPhone's app store.
"I only sell it to try to make back the allowance we invested - we do not see dollar signs. we see soldiers' lives," he said.
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