hey...kid...wanna play soldier?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/26/AR2005052601505.html

It's a Video Game, and an Army Recruiter

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 27, 2005; Page A25

The Army's flagging recruitment numbers are serious business. So Army officials increasingly are turning to a game for help.

It is an online, multiplayer video game that they believe will lure teenagers into Army culture, hoping both to educate them about the military and to spark interest in volunteering to serve...

..."It's designed to give them an inside view on the very fundamentals of being a soldier, and it's also designed to give them a sense of self-efficacy, that they can do it," Wardynski said. Players start out completing obstacle courses and learning how to fire realistic Army weapons, such as automatic rifles and grenade launchers. "We want them to see that they can succeed in doing this. You don't have to think what it would look like -- you can see what it looks like."

You can be certain they won't be seeing this...

NO MORE BLOOD FOR BUSHCO OIL!