This summer, Matt and Doug Stanbro, two brothers from Chelsea, Ala., traded in their game controllers for M-16 rifles. They’re two of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American teenagers inspired by a “shoot’em-up” video game to join the Army.
On the same day the brothers graduated from basic training last week, the Pentagon released the latest version of “America’s Army,” the combat-style video game.
“I never really thought about the military at all before I started playing this game,” says Pfc. Doug Stanbro in a phone interview from Fort Jackson, S.C.
Enjoy the video game? Then join the Army. (Christian Science Monitor)
And you get to just play and play and play …
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