Army Creates Office Dedicated to Video Games
No branch of the military has embraced the world of video games as much as the Army is about to. The Army has just created the Training and Doctrine Command's Project Office for Gaming (or TPO Gaming), an office dedicated completely to building and deploying video games.
TPO Gaming is specifically looking into developing a toolkit that will allow soldiers to build their own training scenarios. But sadly, like many other US Military projects that can take a while, don't expect to see this toolkit until around 2015.
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Kurt Ayau @ Dec 13th 2007 5:06PM
I teach English at Virginia Military Institute. I remember back in 1994 trying to interest one of the Marine ROTC instructors in using Steel Panthers, a strategy game, to help teach cadets about the use of air power and artillery in the battle of Khe Sanh and how these made the difference for the Americans that the French didn't have at Dien Bien Phu. Nothing came of my attempt at interdisciplinary ingenuity. I just don't think he got the concept. Glad to see that the Army is embracing the technoloy, though. Finally. You woulda thunk they'd be knee deep in this stuff back in, oh, 1991 or so.
Jonathan @ Dec 14th 2007 1:17AM
there is no ft. Jackson Ga.
Laurent @ Mar 7th 2008 4:51PM
If I remember correctly, the Marine Corps has been using a spcially-modified version of the game Doom as a training tool since the early 1990s.