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Pentagon Taps Video Games for Training
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From Defense Technology International 2008 August
Anyone who has been on a U.S. military base or combat outpost in Iraq or Afghanistan in the past several years won’t be surprised to hear that American forces love video games. And considering that sales for the American video gaming industry shot up a jaw-dropping 43% in 2007 over the previous year, to $17.9 billion, it would seem that the American public shares the grunts’ enthusiasm. The Defense Dept. is taking notice. In fact, it has set up its own training program using a mixture of commercial games and in-house video simulation tools to train troops in leadership, reaction and warfighting scenarios, under the auspices of the Advanced Distributed Learning program (ADL). Robert A. Wisher is the director of the ADL Initiative for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In a recent conference call with reporters, he laid out some of the latest things that the Defense Dept. is doing with the games.Marines on patrol in Iraq. Realistic gaming scenarios are increasingly used by the Pentagon to train troops in operational scenarios.Credit: U.S. MARINE CORPS So far, commercial games like Cassandra, Doom, Corrosion, Peacemaker and World of Warcraft are being used in training exercises at several war colleges, alongside games service branches have developed themselves.
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