I don't even see what the deal is, correlating these advertisements and serving on the ground altogether in the army. The army doesn't just have soldiers that play video games, they are integrating video games into their fighting style. A friend of mine was at a robotics exhibition in St Louis a few weeks back, and several branches of the gov't had booths there - the Army, Navy, FBI, even the CIA - all talking about how they're hiring guys coming out of top-tiered schools to work on military technologies based off of civilian designs. He was at the Army booth, testing out their unmanned drone technology? It literally uses a 360 controller. There's a sweet irony in the fact that the way using a drone in MW2 may literally become the way the real army uses a drone, not even changing the control scheme.
The DoD has 1.2 million civilian employees stateside. Odds are good that the army actually is targeting video games, both players and technologies, because that's what we're growing up on, and why train recruits to new systems and likely suffer some problems with the training associated with these systems, when they can just base their system off of what 75% of the country has grown up on the prior 15 years?
I mean, I don't know the exact position that they are targeting gaming sites to fill, probably low-level jobs at DARPA, but I know they aren't targeting gamers to serve in Iraq. And a lot of government organizations are recruiting gamers for similar purposes - the CIA in particular. They feel that if they base their technologies around what most kids are doing, then their workers will come in with a lot more knowledge and experience than they think. And for the most part, they're right.
