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US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development
$50 million in funding has been approved for the Army to establish a unit that will develop games. The purpose of the games will be to train soldiers for various tasks, and they say there is no intent to compete with commercial games. We've previously discussed other efforts by the Army to integrate games into their training programs.
"Col. Mark McManigal, the capabilities manger for gaming under the Training and Doctrine Command, said the selected game must provide low-cost training and must not require large number of technicians to run. It must also have a play-back function for after-action reviews, he said. 'One of the major events for training is to be able to capture all these events, good or bad, throughout the entire scenario,' he said. Trainers must be able to edit the game during play to change the difficulty level or add complexity to an exercise. For example, they must also be able to edit terrain to replicate training areas or combat zones, he said."
US troops are cheaters. They use all those hi-tech weaponry and the other teams only have AK's, knives and home-made explosives.
and yet they get their butts kicked.
High-tech stuff and training doesn't quite cut it when you fight to pay for college studies when you get back home, but the enemy is fueled by a hysterical desire to see you die, preferably in horrible ways.
Take the troops from the world's bully off the streets. All that we need to do now is to persuade all the world's other bullies to do likewise, beat each other up in cyber space and leave the rest of us in peace.
Do you want to build in the part of the game after the service where you get neglected by the VA and end up begging for change on the streets of some uncaring nightmare of a city?
Maybe we should go with the part where your government is co-opted by neocons and you get sent off to put your life in danger on the basis of forged intelligence.