U.S. Military Bans Medal of Honor From On-Base Stores
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Well, I support this move. In essence to what the military is experiencing, not to mention those possible PTSD scenarios that can be triggered from playing this game, the military takes everything into consideration. Banning the game from military base stores is a good thing, not having to deal with the advertising and fanfare of MoH. But, I also respect the fact that soldiers have the option of getting the game still. Some soldiers use games as a way of venting stress, some soldiers aren't even station in the mid-east. Its not a big deal in term of game sales (though the free advertising helps) but I do respect the military.
He said it.DarthLurtz said:
Whilst I certaintly don't think MoH should be universally banned, it was a bad idea right now and I agree with the decision to ban it from military base stores.
I thought that...what a strange conceptNimbus said:
On the one hand I think this sounds like a reasonable enough move...on the other hand, as other users have said, these are grown men and women who can decide for themselves.
I guess so, it's just that concern for soldiers' freedom of speech isn't the way to be looking at this.AxCx said:
That's exactly what I'm saying. Coddling each soldier's individual rights is not one of the priorities of military bodies; doing so would seriously affect the performance of the group and the execution of the mission.Mornelithe said:
It's like what happened with McChrystal. It's not about politics, it's plain insubordination, even if Obama himself is not embroiled in the military machine, he is still technically the Commander-in-Chief. Thus, where any old politician, celebrity, or Joe Schmoe can say whatever he wants about Obama, in McChrystal's case, it's plain dissent, and in the military it's dealt with very seriously.
It couldn't function otherwise.
These are military bases in places like Germany, the UK, Japan, Turkey, and South Korea. This isn't a Gamestop hunkered down in the middle of Baghdad, riddled with bullet holes and about to collapse from mortar fire. This is a forward operational base where soldiers are stationed to enhance the US Military's power projection capability - they're there so we can respond to just about anything as quickly as possible. It's also easier to fly injured soldiers from Afghanistan to, say, Germany, than it is to fly them all the way back to the USA.Vanguard_Ex said:I thought that...what a strange conceptNimbus said:
On the one hand I think this sounds like a reasonable enough move...on the other hand, as other users have said, these are grown men and women who can decide for themselves.
Soldiers, more than anyone, need downtime, or they'll snap... and instead of pouring their coffee on their boss's desk, they have an automatic weapon. Life on a military base is actually surprisingly normalized.
Most large military objects provide accommodation not only to soldiers but also their families. Most of them can even be considered towns (if not cities).Nimbus said:
For example, Catterick Garrison here in the UK houses around 12,000 people and even has it's own supermarket.
Well of course it isn't riddled with bullet holes and about to collapse, christ knows how you managed to draw that from what I said.Jiefu said:These are military bases in places like Germany, the UK, Japan, Turkey, and South Korea. This isn't a Gamestop hunkered down in the middle of Baghdad, riddled with bullet holes and about to collapse from mortar fire. This is a forward operational base where soldiers are stationed to enhance the US Military's power projection capability - they're there so we can respond to just about anything as quickly as possible. It's also easier to fly injured soldiers from Afghanistan to, say, Germany, than it is to fly them all the way back to the USA.Vanguard_Ex said:I thought that...what a strange conceptNimbus said:
On the one hand I think this sounds like a reasonable enough move...on the other hand, as other users have said, these are grown men and women who can decide for themselves.
Soldiers, more than anyone, need downtime, or they'll snap... and instead of pouring their coffee on their boss's desk, they have an automatic weapon. Life on a military base is actually surprisingly normalized.
It just didn't occur to me that they might sell video games at military bases.
