The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
This is an article that examines the militaries use of advanced simulations,
and how educators benefit from access to this knowledge, as it is initially
being discovered (as opposed to well after the fact).
The U.S. Army and Project Lead the Way are partnering to use the America's Army
PC game platform currently used as a soldier training tool to enhance science and
engineering curricula in middle and high schools across the country.
What a student can do if he or she has second thoughts about having signed up for the military.
How parents and students can opt out of having the student's contact information revealed to military recruiters under no child left behind.
Diagrams and explanations of various military hand signals.
• YouTube, MySpace, 11 other sites blocked
• Traffic hurting system performance, military says
• Personnel will be able to access sites using own computers
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
Recent graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point are choosing to leave active duty at the highest rate in more than three decades, a sign to many military specialists that repeated tours in Iraq are prematurely driving out some of the Army's top young officers.
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The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
This is an article that examines the militaries use of advanced simulations, and how educators benefit from access to this knowledge, as it is initially being discovered (as opposed to well after the fact).
The U.S. Army and Project Lead the Way are partnering to use the America's Army PC game platform currently used as a soldier training tool to enhance science and engineering curricula in middle and high schools across the country.
What a student can do if he or she has second thoughts about having signed up for the military.
Diagrams and explanations of various military hand signals.
• YouTube, MySpace, 11 other sites blocked • Traffic hurting system performance, military says • Personnel will be able to access sites using own computers
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