User blog comment:Riceygringo/Games as training simulators?/@comment-1927317-20110302183801/@comment-3319722-20110303063940

If I remember correctly, the Falcon series of flight simulators were originally intended as a cheap training tool for the USAF in the 80's. As well as the America's Army series (apparently the US Army boasts that 60% of it's new recruits have played the game). However, even as you said it, a game is only 1 part of a training regime, I doubt that letting a new recruit play a game for a couple of days would make him ready for war.The point of this blog is not to dispute the realism of these games, but whether or not they incite violence.