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Wildwell · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:59 am

Ah, don't worry about that, just throw a blanket over the top!

b0nez · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 64

I was a tester for this simulator.It is exactly that.You must take tests at the start to"qualify" for certain munitions i.e sniper school were you must get a very high score to qualify to use the sniper guns in the game.
Your team mates are always U.S troops and your enemy always appears as arabs,rags on their heads and all.

The strange part is the honor system.You gain honor points that stay with you always.Teamkilling drops your honor and killing arabs raises your honor.The honor and qualifying scores are reported to the central server(army) and stay with you.They know exactly who are the highest honor scorers and who are the best snipers in the simulator.Don't kid yourself.

If you kill a team mate purposely(too early in the match) it puts you in a jail cell called "leavenworth".Go play,just don't be too good.BTW,i sure wouldn't want the jagoffs I saw in there watching my back lol.

If you don't have high speed,no problem.From the AA site:
"56K modem users: to get the game, visit a download site below with the "Order Free CD" link, or contact your local recruiter: Find a recruiter >>
"

Yea,the game is older than Iraq,how ironic the first map they made was called "insurgent camp".A phrase now in every american home.

TrueKaiser · **Joined:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 539

gg3 wrote:

If an Army video game is causing kids to sign up, then Grand Theft Auto is causing kids to go on violent felony sprees including killing cops.

BTW, I'll go on record right here and now saying that video games that reward players for committing violent felonies do not deserve free speech protection, and sales of such things should be illegal in the same manner as child pornography. Speaking as a "First Amendment fundamentalist" here who also agrees with the legal definition of "assault" that threat-speech is not protected speech.

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
your worng. they not only do not cause someone to be violent(the kids were already messed up to begin with) they also deserve full protection under the first amendment otherwise you open the door to censorship that can't and won't be stoped at video games.
of course your just showing your ignorence by being so willing to throw away freedoms others have died for to make it a right for you.

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:19 pm

Wildwell wrote:

Ah, don't worry about that, just throw a blanket over the top!

Step one is find it before it shoots you to death. Step two is get close enough to it to throw the blanket on it before it shoots you to death. Step three is throw the blanket on it sucessfully before it shoots you to death.

maverickdoc · **Joined:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 823

smiley · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:12 am

Damn, being the most high tech army and all, you would expect that they could provide at least a decent download rate.

DamienJasper · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:45 am

I seriously think I'm going to throw up. I'm truly terrified...

DamienJasper · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:24 am

But...just outta curiousity.

How respected is the CO status these days? I'm CO on purely religious grounds. I've got dozens of Bible quotes that pretty much tie my hands on the matter. It ain't MY choice.

But not only that...I've had a few genuine medical problems in the last couple of years. The first time I learned about Peak Oil, and my brother was about to leave to Basic Training I became really depressed. The University Doctor prescribed Zoloft. By his diagnosis, I am clinically prone to biological depression when serious life altering stress kicks in.

I've also been given pills to help with the back pains I get at work. But I hardly ever take them.

I also came down with Kidney Stones in September and was put on Torodal and Vicodin.

I'm also visiting the Doc tomorrow morning because I haven't had a straight 8 hours sleep in literally months. I also started having hyperventilations in December (because of Finals Stress).

Would they even consider me a usable body?

Riverside · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:07 am

Thank goodness I have no skills!!! ... if only I was older...(now that's messed up :wink:

)

Carla

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:13 am

DamienJasper wrote:

Would they even consider me a usable body?

http://www.enjoythedraft.com/faq.htm

Quote:

Beware the "No 18-to-25-Year-Old Left Behind Act."

DamienJasper · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:17 pm

Kay, that doesn't really answer much of anything. We all knew that stuff. Also, that stuff is almost a year old.

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:09 pm

Well who will be drafted is pure theory now considering there's no draft right now. So will you be drafted despite your illnesses? Not at this moment but I wouldn't put it past a desperate USA to do all kinds of crazy shit.

peak_ah_boo · **Joined:** Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 6

Draft just sounds too chilly.

It needs repackaging. Call it the BREEZE? Enjoyable in all seasons. A soft summer breeze, a cool ocean breeze, a warm breeze off the desert.

Sounds better already.

NevadaGhosts · **Joined:** Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 749

Ominously, Army Recruiting Tumbles

Quote:

Last month, Army recruiters fell 42 percent short of their goal, according to the Army Recruiting Command. They had hoped to sign up 6,600 volunteers; but despite bonuses of up to $20,000 for those willing to report by May 30, they fell 2,779 recruits short.

Those numbers are ominous. If they continue in the months to come, as seems likely, they threaten not merely our ability to stick it out in Iraq, but also the Army's long-term ability to perform its duties worldwide. And the reason for that decline is obvious.

In April of 2003, around the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, 73 percent of Americans believed the war was worthwhile; only 23 percent did not, according to a CNN/Gallup poll. So recruiters had little trouble filling their quotas.

Today, though, only 41 percent of Americans believe the war was worthwhile, while 57 percent do not. And if Americans do not believe the war worthwhile, they're not likely to sign up to fight in it.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0509-28.htm

I feel a draft in the air...

Overlyhonest · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2005 2:30 am

Have any service people been shifted from one branch of the military to another?

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