the army uses it to train people!thejccalhounAugust 26 2006, 13:53:27 UTC
"If you can train a military-type person using these video games, you can do it to kids," Burrell told the newspaper.
I always love that line of reasoning. That's why I never make my bed -- after all the military really emphasises making your bed as part of their training. If the military uses bed making as part of their training, I'm afraid that if I make my bed I'll go crazy and start to kill people!
These people need to stop and think for a moment. Even if videogames do "teach you to kill," there is a big difference between knowing how to do something and wanting to do it. My high school English teacher taught me how to diagram sentences, but that doesn't mean I want to do it...
Re: the army uses it to train people!mcfly0612August 26 2006, 17:37:30 UTC
Why do they always bring this point up? The only way I've heard the military uses games for training is to teach communcation skills between squads. And that's just something I heard, I don't even know if it's true or not
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Re: the army uses it to train people!xwaixAugust 26 2006, 22:46:25 UTC
Yet they always make it sound like new recruits show up and the drill instructor goes "You will each be issued a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas edition, Halo and Doom. You will train on these for three months, one month each. After that you will be combat ready and sent to fight."
While the idea that those games could assist with training is utterly ridiculous (sitting in a room with a controller in your hands playing a game involving carrying a gun and shooting people is a far cry from actually being in a war zone, carrying a gun and shooting people), if I enlisted and my DI said that to me in basic, my immediate and enthusiastic response would be "SIR, YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY HERO, SIR!" =P
Re: the army uses it to train people!dustin1986August 27 2006, 04:50:50 UTC
It's kind of stupid to think that the military uses videogames to desensitize troops to violence. I shouldn't even have to say that it's stupid because it is very obviously stupid.
The way the military trains you to kill is to have drills with a target and a bayonet. You scream KILL as loud as you can and bury the knife into it. I think I saw something about it on the Discovery Channel. The only thing that a videogame could hope to replicate is strategy. You know that game Full Spectrum Warrior? It was based on military training software. You don't actually control the gun in that game. All you do is call out orders.
Re: the USCG doesn't use it to train people!gs_2005August 27 2006, 07:29:21 UTC
I can partially answer one aspect of this, and the source is genuine. I won't answer this question too many more times than this one, just to be clear. First, my comments do not reflect the opinions of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), whom I am employed by
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Neither does the USN, appearently...jerrydavidAugust 27 2006, 18:40:41 UTC
I had been enlisted in the United States Navy for 4 years, 2001-2005, as an Electronics Technician. The only 'video game' training we had was our own, off-time training, playing Halo with the Gunner's Mates on the ship's dark LAN (an underground LAN network made and created by us, for our own uses) They were extremely efficient marksman, at least in the game. As gs_2005 said with his statement, this is only my personal reference to the US Navy, maybe the other branches do use such training, or perhaps if you get accepted to special 'training' schools (such as Army Rangers, or SEALS), but from what I experienced, the average Sailor Joe never gets officially sponsored training utilizing the use of video game entertainment.
I always love that line of reasoning. That's why I never make my bed -- after all the military really emphasises making your bed as part of their training. If the military uses bed making as part of their training, I'm afraid that if I make my bed I'll go crazy and start to kill people!
These people need to stop and think for a moment. Even if videogames do "teach you to kill," there is a big difference between knowing how to do something and wanting to do it. My high school English teacher taught me how to diagram sentences, but that doesn't mean I want to do it...
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While the idea that those games could assist with training is utterly ridiculous (sitting in a room with a controller in your hands playing a game involving carrying a gun and shooting people is a far cry from actually being in a war zone, carrying a gun and shooting people), if I enlisted and my DI said that to me in basic, my immediate and enthusiastic response would be "SIR, YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY HERO, SIR!" =P
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The way the military trains you to kill is to have drills with a target and a bayonet. You scream KILL as loud as you can and bury the knife into it. I think I saw something about it on the Discovery Channel. The only thing that a videogame could hope to replicate is strategy. You know that game Full Spectrum Warrior? It was based on military training software. You don't actually control the gun in that game. All you do is call out orders.
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The only 'video game' training we had was our own, off-time training, playing Halo with the Gunner's Mates on the ship's dark LAN (an underground LAN network made and created by us, for our own uses)
They were extremely efficient marksman, at least in the game.
As gs_2005 said with his statement, this is only my personal reference to the US Navy, maybe the other branches do use such training, or perhaps if you get accepted to special 'training' schools (such as Army Rangers, or SEALS), but from what I experienced, the average Sailor Joe never gets officially sponsored training utilizing the use of video game entertainment.
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