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Saturday, November 24, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2826140,00.html Uncle Sam wants...virtual reality training Reuters LOS ANGELES-- With the click of a mouse you flip from a huge, blank movie screen to a seat in a Humvee rumbling through the misty cobbled streets of a Balkan village where there has been an accident. A turbaned child lies in the street in critical condition. Townspeople glare angrily from a curb. ... "Sir, we should secure the assembly area," the virtual man says. Welcome to "Mission Rehearsal Exercise," one of several high-tech interactive video games demonstrated this month that are designed to train U.S. soldiers and platoon leaders in the rigors of war, without them ever leaving the classroom....
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