Posted on 05/15/2004 11:57:28 AM PDT by Sofa King
Outside the Convention Center, the real U.S. Army has stationed a real OH-58 helicopter. Every few hours, real Special Forces teams perform mock urban assaults. The mission: encourage today's youth to play the Army's new computer game called Overmatch, in which our troops use their superior "training and technology to defeat a vast enemy force" in a desert town that bares a striking resemblance to downtown Fallujah. It is a recruitment tool.
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And to think most of my video-game quarters the past couple months have gone into Galaxian (really).
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