02/16/08
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cartesia
the army has their own (free) online FPS...
02/16/08
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Zanf
It was reported before that the military found that playing games actually sharpened peoples reflexes so why not try and recruit the gaming generation. Plus like all things that wish to sustain themselves, they need to recruit fresh meat. This is just how they have tuned into that market.
02/16/08
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jogn
i think there was a little piece in the docus i,videogame about the american army recruitment of gamers. It's a big market.
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SeanShea
Iraq is a FPS that is just a little too realistic for my system.
02/16/08
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RogerRoger
The following statement is coming from myself, an 8 year US Air Force "veteran":
Anyone dumb enough to want to join the military should be allowed in.
Even in peace time and regardless of how poor you may be, there are better and more fulfilling ways for a young person to live up to their potential. But now it's much worse, of course. This isn't 1942 and anybody with half a brain knows what Iraq is being fought over.
I don't recall the USAF ever advertising to my age group when I joined. I did it because I was failing college and too lazy to find a steady job. ie. I was a dumbfuck. If war had broken out before 2000, I could have been dead or mutilated. True they pay so you can back to school, but not if you're six feet under.
Know why I got out? Among other reasons, they were giving those anthrax shots to people and it scared the shit out of me. Read up on the effects of those vaccines some time. I somehow got out of it in 1999. I was mostly just tired of being treated like a piece of meat. And I had it WAY better than anyone who's joined the army since 2002.
If I've offended any service member reading this, just remember, I'm still a dumbfuck. Enjoy the rest of your enlistment!
02/16/08
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atum
during my brief time in the us naval reserve (13months DEP). we basically played this Playstaion 2 game called "call of duty" and learned to deny facts
02/17/08
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antfactor
Super cool. It's always great to hear such reassuring stories of how efficiently our money (and our grandchildren's money) is going down the toilet while it helps kill people on all sides of the equation needlessly. Makes me feel damn proud to live and pay taxes in such a "Christian" and "moral" nation.
02/18/08
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papergoose
the weirdest thing about that "America's Army" army-sanctioned first person shoot game was the fact that you could never be the "bad guy", like in most multiplayer games.
You were an american soldier and the other people were the "terrorists". So, you saw the other people as terrorists and they saw you that way. You were ALWAYS an american fighting for good, no matter what you were doing. It kind of creeped me out. It was a pretty fun game though. . . . .
