Take On the National Guard at Best Buy's Modern Warfare 2 Premiere

[Sgtkillalot0]

Now this seems cool, hope people have fun (shooting at the army).

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Wow! That sounds like a lot of fun!

Too bad it's only laser tag. Should have been either paintball or airsoft.

Probably an insurance thing or something. Paintball and airsoft generally have a much higher injury rate than laser tag. I know that during my own paintball playing days if I didn't lose blood during the course of the day, I probably wasn't being challenged much. Of course, not everyone has my unique combination of determination, pain tolerance and more than occasional wild flailing so I imagine the worst most get is the minor bruising from the paintballs.

 

[SilentHunter7]

When I read Scranton, PA, I almost crapped a brick. That Best Buy is literally 10 minutes from my house.

Too bad I'm currently at Penn State, which is 3 hours away. Though I might just give my parents a call and come down for that. If only to school the National Guard in the finer points of Laser Tag.

 

[HentMas]

ouuuu...

why the hell do i live in Mexico???


mind you... i would rather live in japan hehe

 

[Remember_the_name]

Real soldiers? We're talking the NATIONAL GUARD here, people! If they're real soldiers I'm a fairy princess. At least they're doing something worthy of their "training" and playing laser tag. I dealt with a lot of these American weekend warriors when I was in the Canadian military, and the word "unimpressed" almost describes my feelings. Untrained, unprofessional, and too much attitude. Our reservists would destroy them without even trying (and proved it time and time again in war games.)

Sorry to shit all over this, but it irritates me when the National Guard gets glorified in any way, they're mostly fucking lawyers and dentists who like to play bang-bang on the weekends, then hit the golf course. Put them in a real combat situation and they'll freeze. This happened over and over again in Afghanistan and Iraq, but you won't hear about it on the news. I heard about it from the source, Canadian soldiers risking their lives to save some half-assed wannabes.

Other than that, it sounds like a pretty cool way to promote a video game; have some regular joes go up against some Guardsmen. Sounds like a fair fight, neither of them have any training.

Not that I have an opinion or anything...

Geez lotta hate on the Guard there.....I question your sources about the iraq/afgan part.