There is both playboy and penthouse sold at the Navy Exchange, and in fact you can even score some soft core on liberty weekend in Navy boot camp if you know which motorcycle magazine features the Fox Hunt. It's good for morale. And as a sailor on an airforce base I will agree with your A-Sexual drone hypothesis
Assuming that my fellow service members who like myself have never even seen a gamestop on a base even stop to consider the moral implications of buying this game as they drive to the gamestop that will be within a fifteen minute drive or 30 minute bus ride of a military installation (I needed to find a gamestop once near whidbey island naval airstation and I literally just drove around for 20 minutes until one showed up)they may wonder why Gamestop feels the need to take a game that allows them to play US soldiers who kill taliban members, which is what I signed up for and continue to support, literally all day and night. Do they think that if I took issue with it I might accidentally select the taliban side in multiplayer and go to bed hating myself? The concern is touching.
Besides, I assume they didn't go all out on the realism of the game anyway. Unless I can play by driving a crappy car packed with explosives that will kill me, or sit at a mortar tube waiting for a hellfire missile to hit me out of no where, or log on when players aren't in a map to place IED's, then it's not very Taliban-ey sounding. I think it's probably a fancy (read: douchey) way of saying a guy with an AK-47 instead of an M4, who can't call in helo strikes or anything fun like that. Also, I don't think many service members would enjoy being a realistic Taliban soldier, because they are culturally much more into hand holding than we are in the US. Like, way more into it.
First off, enlisted members of the armed services sign away some rights when they join. This is particularly true regarding any right to acts of espionage. The real problem with this Op-Ed is misses the whole point that the Internet doesn't kill security, people do. And since cyber attacks are considered acts of war, we can't just perpetrate them willy nilly with our new cyber-command.
I thought that word had finally died! If you west coast guy's and gal's get to have a Hella big number, then I hereby demand that we east coasters are furnished with a Wicked Big Numbah!
Earlier in the thread some body said that if you believe 50% of the money allocated was going to overseas operations you're wrong. It is important to point out that the DOD's counterrorism apparatus is massive, well funded, and conducts only overseas operations. That's why when your deployed in central command (OIF/OEF) you earn a global war on terrorism ribbon. Occasional investigations of american left or right wing groups (many of which conduct activities which fit the DOD's definition for terrorism) by the DHS or the FBI is a drop in the bucket compared to the anti-terrorism work done by our service members overseas. When was the last time there was predator drone that took out senior leadership at greenpeace headquarters?
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There is both playboy and penthouse sold at the Navy Exchange, and in fact you can even score some soft core on liberty weekend in Navy boot camp if you know which motorcycle magazine features the Fox Hunt. It's good for morale. And as a sailor on an airforce base I will agree with your A-Sexual drone hypothesis
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Assuming that my fellow service members who like myself have never even seen a gamestop on a base even stop to consider the moral implications of buying this game as they drive to the gamestop that will be within a fifteen minute drive or 30 minute bus ride of a military installation (I needed to find a gamestop once near whidbey island naval airstation and I literally just drove around for 20 minutes until one showed up)they may wonder why Gamestop feels the need to take a game that allows them to play US soldiers who kill taliban members, which is what I signed up for and continue to support, literally all day and night. Do they think that if I took issue with it I might accidentally select the taliban side in multiplayer and go to bed hating myself? The concern is touching. Besides, I assume they didn't go all out on the realism of the game anyway. Unless I can play by driving a crappy car packed with explosives that will kill me, or sit at a mortar tube waiting for a hellfire missile to hit me out of no where, or log on when players aren't in a map to place IED's, then it's not very Taliban-ey sounding. I think it's probably a fancy (read: douchey) way of saying a guy with an AK-47 instead of an M4, who can't call in helo strikes or anything fun like that. Also, I don't think many service members would enjoy being a realistic Taliban soldier, because they are culturally much more into hand holding than we are in the US. Like, way more into it.
First off, enlisted members of the armed services sign away some rights when they join. This is particularly true regarding any right to acts of espionage. The real problem with this Op-Ed is misses the whole point that the Internet doesn't kill security, people do. And since cyber attacks are considered acts of war, we can't just perpetrate them willy nilly with our new cyber-command.
As a New Yorker, I would say it's all kind of stupid, but maybe we should quantify "Fu***' huuuge!"
I thought that word had finally died! If you west coast guy's and gal's get to have a Hella big number, then I hereby demand that we east coasters are furnished with a Wicked Big Numbah!
Earlier in the thread some body said that if you believe 50% of the money allocated was going to overseas operations you're wrong. It is important to point out that the DOD's counterrorism apparatus is massive, well funded, and conducts only overseas operations. That's why when your deployed in central command (OIF/OEF) you earn a global war on terrorism ribbon. Occasional investigations of american left or right wing groups (many of which conduct activities which fit the DOD's definition for terrorism) by the DHS or the FBI is a drop in the bucket compared to the anti-terrorism work done by our service members overseas. When was the last time there was predator drone that took out senior leadership at greenpeace headquarters?