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January 26, 2009

Caught in the BlogosphereUncle Sam Wants YOU to Play Video Games

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By Eden Litt

What would it take to get you to join the U.S. Army? Would a sweet video game that lets you fly around in a Black Hawk helicopter shooting at enemies aid in your decision-making process?

The U.S. Army recently unveiled a brand-new facility in the Franklin Mills shopping mall in Philadelphia, PA featuring 60 personal computers and 19 Xboxes loaded with military video games and banging rock music. While the goal of the facility, which opened in August, is to bring about awareness and expel army myths, this digitalized facility has become a means for recruitment and has proven to be enticingly more powerful than the five traditional recruiting centers it replaced.

For more on the Army Experience Center, click here.

Posted by staff at January 26, 2009 01:35 AM

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