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Army to use MMOG for Simulation Training

Posted by michael on from the extra-life dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Military Training Technology (online edition) has an interesting article, 'The End Game', containing revelations about a Research, Development and Engineering Command project 'that is as timely as the nightly news' - a Massively Multiplayer Simulation for Asymmetric Warfare, or simply MMP: 'essentially a virtual world [developed by There Inc.] intended to train soldiers well beyond the goals of war gaming'."

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  1. Violence because of video games ? nahh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    i mean if they had no effect the Military wouldnt be using them as training devices right ?

  2. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You meant to say the White Nigger himself, George Herbert Hoover Bush Jr.

    Al Gore was the last member of the Executive branch to serve in the military since Carter, asswipe. You fail it. Please do the world a favor and go hang yourself.

    Before you do yourself in answer this: what does Bush's cum taste like?

  3. Why didn't they just start with Counterstrike... by Dukeofshadows · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...instead of blowing $32 million to develop a proprietary version?

    No wonder we're running a half-trillion dollar deficit...

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    As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment.
  4. Re:Asymmetric Warfare? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, you dumb fucking high uid games.slashdot denizen. Asymmetric warfare is the attacks on US troops by Iraqi resistance, for example. Or Vietnam.