disposable culture's video: Waging War: Immersion Training - Shooting at Pendleton Digital Nation

Here's a look at what it was like filming at the Marines' Infantry Immersion trainer facility. HIgh-Tech Training In September 2007, the Marine Corps base in Camp Pendleton, CA, opened the Infantry Immersion Trainer (IIT). This 32,000-square-foot, $2.5 million facility combines live action role players and virtual Iraqis projected onto holographic screens to create interactive battle simulations. It's the product of a decade of investment by the Office of Naval Research. The IIT allows instructors to create complicated training scenarios on the fly. Virtual civilians appear alongside virtual insurgents, teaching the Marines to make snap ethical decisions on when to pull the trigger and how to implement the rules of engagement. The screens even judge how well they aim. The Immersion Trainer also prepares Marines for the stress of close-quarters urban combat and the tactics of clearing houses. Camp Pendleton's Immersion Trainer is not unique. The Marines have a similar facility scheduled to open at their base in Quantico, VA. The Army also runs an immersion trainer out of the Joint Fires and Effects Integration Center at Fort Sill, OK. All three facilities use FlatWorld mixed-reality technology --)) developed at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/waging-war/immersion-training/shooting-at-pendleton.html?play "60-70% of Army Video Game Simulation Technology in Our Kids Homes Today", (like CryEngine 3) ----Military contractor, Intelligent Decisions Director, Floyd West http://youtu.be/ZUeP2i-VVyg US Army spending $57 million on military simulator using CryEngine 3 http://www.vg247.com/2011/05/27/us-army-spending-57-million-on-military-simulator-using-cryengine-3/ "It's a great training product. I've had 'em link the Xboxes together and the sergeant will actually train his teams with the Modern Warfare game." ---- Call of Duty representative, lead military adviser, lieutenant colonel, Hank Keirsey http://youtu.be/J14wdIsyYqk GamePro:Games are most effective Army recruitment tool http://web.archive.org/web/20091123083808/http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/212985/games-are-most-effective-army-recruitment-tool/ RECRUITING CHILDREN INTO THE US MILITARY Pentagon's Child Recruiting Strategy http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/recruiting-children.htm (six in ten current US soldiers entered the military as teenagers) Project Censored 2009 - Recruitment Toolbox: Movies, Toys, TV, And Computer Games http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/tfic6w29/ProjectCensoreRecruitingyourchildren.png After You Play, Before You Enlist! Army PR & Video Games (@ Elementary Schools)! http://youtu.be/IpEzhmYJqsI Politics and Hollywood's images are linked. They reinforce one another. Policy enforces mythical images; mythical images help enforce policy. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, has said, quote, "Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA," end-quote. - JACK SHAHEEN, director of Reel Bad Arabs RETURNING FIRE: Interventions in Video Game Culture http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6C7789075C00895A Do Violent Games Change Kids Brain? http://forums.gametrailers.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1268773 1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. http://youtu.be/watch?v=z-88Ntc_DZA Psalm 11:5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Psalm 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. http://linkbun.ch/fl90 ____