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Not to be missed in the article: The Air Force has a "chief of esports and virtual fitness"
by ChicagoBoy11 5y ago
Not to be missed in the article: The Air Force has a "chief of esports and virtual fitness"
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- rdtwo 5y agoDoes he just get paid to turn on and off his computer because apparently that takes all day
- ChicagoBoy11 5y agohence the fitness part of it /s
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoThe US army has sponsored development of games quite a lot; I remember a friend of mine who was really into America's Army, that must've been 15 years ago now.
- ceedan 5y agoThat game was really solid
- machiaweliczny 5y agoPlayed it as well. Good stuff.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThe US military is very serious about its recruiting.
- thatguy0900 5y agoThat game was pretty fun, to play as the medic class you actually had to sit in a first aid lecture with a test afterwords. I remember the lecture actually being really entertaining and educational.
- tdrgabi 5y agoI was pretty excited about that tutorial. Then the game started and you pressed E to heal. Not sure what I expected, but was super disappointed
- ChicagoBoy11 5y agoomg this brought back so many memories!
- ct0 5y agoWow that game hasnt come up for quite a while - Blast from the past!
- myaccounthaha 5y agoThat's called propaganda.
- wildrhythms 5y agoAn interesting quirk of America's Army was that the character models were always arranged such that the player character (and their team) was dressed as U.S. soldiers/ally forces, and the enemy players were always dressed as insurgents. So the player was never killing or being killed by U.S. forces from their perspective. It was a little weird to see your team of U.S. forces running around with AK-47s and shooting at insurgents carrying M16s :)
- vanilla_nut 5y agoI loved the TV show Stargate SG-1 as a kid. From what I’ve heard, they had a really positive relationship with the air force and got all kinds of special privileges to film in official locations as a result.
- ferrumfist 5y agoI'm not surprised. I've noticed the Air Force has partnered with a few notable esports orgs in the last few years. As a former USAF vet, I totally get it. We are hard-pressed for competent IT folks and our IT presence is only growing. Generally, it's far easier to train a new recruit in the fundamentals of IT if they spent their teenage years building PCs and playing video games compared to someone who did not.