There were army recruiters on campus last week. They had a huge semi-truck trailer thing you could go inside. Inside were Virtual reality simulators, one of which allowed you to strap into a full-body harness, don a head-mounted display, and try to parachute onto a aircraft carrier. Another was a two person simulation in which you climb into a hummer and one person shoots while the other drives. I found this sort of wild and disturbing, especially in the light of a recent talk I attended concerning the expressive power of video games.
This image is from one of the stations inside the ARMY trailer. It allowed you to make sample leaflets to be dropped by the thousands over "enemy" populations. The goal of the Psychological Operations Unit of the army is to create and spread propaganda to "peacefully" brainwash masses to do whatever is in our countries best interest. I'm sure that these "surrender now" messages are only the tip... who knows what other misinformation we feed to people.
