Switched - Comments for US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/ Switched Comments for US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif Switched http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Comments on US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat]]>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/This is more Waste FAT for the Military/Industrial Complex. This particular aspect of War Profiteering is aka The Simulation Training Industry, and it has gobbled up approximately $40-50 Billion in VideoGame Training contracts over the past few years.
Imagine that--Play vido games to get ready for life-and-death combat. Meanwhile, Army Basic Training was cut to 9 weeks. Whereupon it was discovered that the new GIs were not in physical shape for war, and they didn't know how to handle their weapons safely and with necessary skill.
So, the Army upped Basic by one week, then was forced to cut that back again--Because with two wars going, there was a shortage of troops for Iraq and Afghanistan.
By all means, you Pentagon Fools--More kiddie games for the hapless cannon fodder! :-( The enmy is within...]]>Nov 24th 2008 6:57PM<![CDATA[Comments on US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat]]>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/Nov 25th 2008 1:17AM<![CDATA[Comments on US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat]]>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/Nov 25th 2008 5:38AM<![CDATA[Comments on US Army Spending $50M for Video Games to Train Soldiers for Combat]]>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/us-army-spending-50m-for-video-games-to-train-soldiers-for-comb/Nov 27th 2008 10:13PM