US Army spends millions on video games
THE AMERICAN Army plans to spend $50 million on developing video games over the next six years for training soldiers.
The US Army publication Stars & Stripes reports that the Training and Doctrine Command will start video game development in 2010, with a projected delivery date sometime in 2015.
Meanwhile, the US military will be setting up its own network of LAN gaming parties, with 70 gaming systems to be installed at 53 sites in the US, Germany, Italy and South Korea by September 2009.
Gaming project director Leslie Duvow reportedly told Stars & Stripes, "Each system will consist of 52 computers with ancillary equipment including steering wheels, headsets and mice."
The expectation is that soldiers in training will be able to virtually drive simulated vehicles, fire simulated weapons, pilot simulated unmanned aircraft and do "most anything a soldier does" in a virtual theatre of battle up to 100 kilometers square, she said.
It sounds a lot more comfortable than banging about in the heat and dust of the Southwest American deserts with the real things, which are much more costly and tend to wear out. ยต
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....Disembarkment port in the middle-easter country of current interest.

Private: Sir, where are our cubicles?
Sergeant 1st class: Screw cubicles! Just grab your mouses and let's kick some towelhead ass!!
The military is an adaptable force, it is so by necessity, it cannot afford to rest on its laurels or let bias get in the way of accomplishing a goal. "The Brass" as they are collectively known have figured out that what they call the Nintendo Generation of US citizens and soldiers are in some areas superior to their forebearers and in some area inferior to them largely because of modern culture, technology, and videogaming.

For instance, I have seen interviews of Soldiers serving in Iraq who felt battle was "just like the videogames" and in this experience found themselves quite cool and collected, placing accurate and timely fire that in years past would have taken real combat experience to accomplish. This works for the Armor crewman, Artillery crewman, or Pilot even better than it does for the Infantryman.

These LAN systems and videogames will be used in conjunction with live fire exercises and, in the case of Infantryman, MOUT training to build a an effective method of giving a US Soldier effective "combat experience" even in peace time.
WW3 will happen on this digital playground, Russia is going to see it and copy it with the Chinese technology, then a Aussie hack is going to pout because his country has no electronic virtual grid to kill other ppl from other nations, so then sent a 5 star general a virus via email.

5 star general Alt+Tabs out of Virtual combat opens email... then let you immagination go on with what you want, but im picturing a godzilla kangaroo in the middle of the battlefield.