US Army's computer game recruiting plan takes fire

[deadparrot]

Source: AFP

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Anti-recruitment groups are slamming a US Army deal to sponsor a computer war game channel, charging that real war is no game.

In June, the Army is set to sponsor a channel at the Global Gaming League website, a popular spot for Internet computer game lovers.

"It is part of this campaign for the last 20 years to invade youth culture with militarism," Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities co-founder Rick Jahnkow told AFP.

"It affects the way young people think. It affects their world view. That is a very dangerous thing."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070421/tc_afp/usitinternetgame_070421160108

[alfredo]

1. They should bundle in the smell of shit and rotting flesh. Add a bit of

realism. Maybe the sound of a wounded Iraq crying for his mother.

[uppityperson]

2. many cheers for anti-recruitment and American Friends Service Committee

[onehandle]

3. Does it feature roadside bombs?

Do the players get to hear their crying, dying comrades around them as they slip into the dark veil of death?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. they already have that commercial with soldiers jumping out of a video game

[LiberalFighter]

6. Do they get to feel the loss of a leg? The pain of getting shot?

[Solo_in_MD]

5. Old News...I assume none of you have heard of the game Americas Army?

Straight up army recurting tool, and unabashedly so.