{"id":1524,"date":"2012-05-13T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/will-avatars-keep-soldiers-fighting-fit\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T21:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:06:22","slug":"will-avatars-keep-soldiers-fighting-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/will-avatars-keep-soldiers-fighting-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Will avatars keep soldiers fighting fit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video game training helps Army simulate real-life battlefield<\/i><\/p>\n

For Col. Anthony Krogh, the approaching end of more than 10 years of war seems more like a call to action.<\/p>\n

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a toll, but they have also left the US Army battle-tested. As peacetime draws nearer, the Pentagon is grappling with a vital question: How can the military keep its soldiers engaged and fighting fit, both physically and mentally?<\/p>\n

Krogh thinks he knows one answer: video games. Short of building fake villages “with goats wandering and smells and all that,” video-game training is the only way consistently to put soldiers in environments like the ones they have operated in since 2001, says Krogh, head of the Army’s national simulation command.<\/p>\n

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Video game training helps Army simulate real-life battlefield For Col. Anthony Krogh, the approaching end of more than 10 years of war seems more like a call to action. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a toll, but they have also left the US Army battle-tested. As peacetime draws nearer, the Pentagon is … Continue reading “Will avatars keep soldiers fighting fit?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindscans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}