The game America’s Army have made another move in recruiting young solders.
It is widely know that they have a member of the forces in al most every clan going and some on public servers.
Their job is to glorify war they brag and boast all about the weapons and army life.
Now they have taken recruitments skill a step forward.
This time The US military is putting soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan into its video game in an attempt to put a human face on its operations overseas.
The soldiers' stories are part of a new version of America's Army, a game which is part of its recruitment strategy.
The US military denies that the project is a way of selling an unpopular war to the American public.
Instead the free game is designed to inspire young people by relating the real-life experiences of the troops.
"The majority of the public is not touched by the war," said Major Jason Amerine, who served in Afghanistan and is one of the nine soldiers appearing in the game.
"It is dangerous to have an army overseas fighting and for a public to become so disconnected that they don't realise that we are not automatons over there. We're real people," he told the BBC News website.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
America's Army
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