Game simulation gains training importance | Stars and Stripes - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Nov 08
  

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  • The Joint Multinational Simulation Center is screening  applicants for a computer gamer’s dream job.

     

    Tom Lasch, JMSC’s director of models and simulations, said the organization,  which opened a simulation building packed with hundreds of computer screens at  Grafenwöhr on Friday, is looking for a civilian "first-person simulation  specialist."

     

    Whomever is selected will be charged with testing gaming technology —  computer simulations that the Army uses to train soldiers for combat — and  test-driving gaming technology that the Army is looking to acquire, he said.

     

    The simulations, which include "America’s Army," "Darwars Ambush" and  "Virtual Battle Space 2 (VBS2)," need regular testing because the manufacturers  constantly add patches and extra features that could make the software  malfunction, Lasch said.
  • The simulations, which include accurate maps of large parts of Baghdad and  several Iraqi towns, do a good job replicating Iraq, said Hensel, who served  there 2004-05 and again in 2006-07.

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