Give em candy.

"We're just here to play the games," said Smith

Ah yes. Our tax dollars hard at werk!

IED proof skateboards, pimped out strykers, pussy, booze and a late wake-up time.

Where's my share of the 13 million. But I'm still surprised the military hasn't been forced to stop recruiting, given the Young Republicans love for Bush and his wars....

Cool!

It reminds me of the story, Pinocchio. The bad boys skip school, go to the arcade to play pool, drink beer, and smoke cigars. Then the evil white slavers turn them into donkeys, and work them to death in the coal mines.

Good analogy, Jeff.

"The Army has set up a $13 million video arcade in Philadelphia"

YEAH!

And the "small government" tax minded "conservatives" come out to voice their support!

With all the cameras, bio feedback programs, psycho analysis, and background checking that will be going on in there, I wouldn't go near that place if I was a teen.

Oh, wait I forgot something...brain washing too.

FTA: At the sign-in desk, where visitors fill out an information sheet and each receives a bar-coded photo identification card, he indicated that he did not want to be contacted by a recruiter.

Well, there you go then.

That oughta put an end to this teen being cajoled into military service./snark>

You know who they really oughta hire as recruiters?

Get a few of them JWs who go door to door on the weekend proselytising.

First off, they are used to rejection and will prolly not commit suicide as has been the case elswhere.

Secondly, that's one less knock on the door when yer trying to sleep in on a weekend.

Is WIN WIN!

Does Spud win a free game fer that?

Be Well.

/Sleepy and snowbound and entering the Retort as ya do
stage left.

With all the cameras, bio feedback programs, psycho analysis, and background checking that will be going on in there, I wouldn't go near that place if I was a teen.
#8 | Posted by RingMaster

You're suggesting that there is a mechanism to reject a potential recruit?

Oh yeah, it's called "known sexual orientation."

Give them some credit Hagbard. They just got over the idea that the blood supply has black donors.

They just got over the idea that the blood supply has black donors.
#12 | Posted by Shawn

Fair point. LOL.

Great idea! Go Army!

Seriously, this country does not draft like most free nations so if this is what it takes to get more volunteers during a time of war then I am for it. Even if prospective recruits don't join, its still a cool recreation area that can keep troubled kids in the community shooting fake bullets in an arcade rather than shooting real bullets on American streets.

It is a great idea. The gamers have the fastest reflexes and better hand eye coordination.

This is like playing Halo for real.

Once again its their choice to enlist.

I don't mind recruiting tools, but $13,000,000 for a single arcade?

Makes the $400 Hammer seem reasonable.

Cool, train them early on that it's not real people they're killing, just blips on a screen. Save a ton in PTSD treatments later on.

So how many private sector arcades and game rental stores will this destroy?

Friggin' commie Republican President!

Give them some credit Hagbard. They just got over the idea that the blood supply has black donors.
#12 | Posted by Shawn at 2009-01-05 12:30 PM

Wow, ominous FF.

Why can't they just recruit them directly out of middle school then? Why not directly tie all scholastic databases into the military? Why not simply school them from 12 onward in a military facility loaded with training gadgets? They could selectively breed them from the base. Golly, the military are not immoral and invasive enough.

Sounds like wahabism, smells like it too.

Recruiters should at least realize they have just created a $13 million target for suicide jihadists.

It might be fun for young techs to analyze their equipment and tamper with their demeanor.

My favorite videogame was Global Thermal Nuclear War. Hopefully they have theat game there. It was fun obliterating the world and destroying the environment

I don't mind recruiting tools, but $13,000,000 for a single arcade?

Makes the $400 Hammer seem reasonable.

#16 | Posted by COMMONSENSE

Have you priced the cost of constructing a 14,500 square foot commercial building with accompanying parking area lately?
Then, fill it full of high tech equipment.

"Have you priced the cost of constructing a 14,500 square foot commercial building with accompanying parking area lately?"

What, they never heard of leasing?

LOL! "Call of Duty" is probably funded by Uncle Sam!!! No pun intended.

Why can't they just recruit them directly out of middle school then?

Screw the recruiting-just give a mouthful of janjaweed and an AK-47 and ship 'em out.

The military and the video game industry have colluded for years -- just with more subtlety before now.

Have you priced the cost of constructing a 14,500 square foot commercial building with accompanying parking area lately?
Then, fill it full of high tech equipment.

#21 | Posted by libertarian_gi at 2009-01-05 09:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

Actually, yes I have. It's what I do.

They didn't construct anything. They're leasing space at the mall.

The military is not interested in the ones they reject, sexual orientation or not. They are fishing for meatheads with the highest kill rates.

"The Army has set up a $13 million video arcade in Philadelphia, hoping that it become a model for attracting more recruits in urban areas. "We're basically a learning lab for the military, a way for us to interact with kids and find out what they're interested in," said First Sgt. Randy Jennings."

Sounds like a paedophile's clubhouse.

Terrorists.
You are not defending this nation and you are and will continue to be in the absolute control of criminals.

All they need is are hotdogs and purple drink

Michael Moore addressed recruiter scruples in "Fahrenheit 9/11," as did Victor D. LaValle in the book "Slapboxing With Jesus." I wonder if the arcade has a rape game, since that has even been offered as a reward by recruiters, as described in such books as "An intimate history of killing : face-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare" by Joanna Bourke.