[De Alan MacLeod] The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone operator yourself. In its latest attempts to market active service to young people, players move through missions escorting U.S. vehicles through countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, serving up death from above to all those designated «insurgents» by the game. Players earn medals and achievements for most effectively destroying moving targets. All the while there is a prominent «apply now» button on screen if players would like to enlist and conduct real drone strikes all over the Middle East. (globalresearch.ca)
terça-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2020
«A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans»
[De Alan MacLeod] The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone operator yourself. In its latest attempts to market active service to young people, players move through missions escorting U.S. vehicles through countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, serving up death from above to all those designated «insurgents» by the game. Players earn medals and achievements for most effectively destroying moving targets. All the while there is a prominent «apply now» button on screen if players would like to enlist and conduct real drone strikes all over the Middle East. (globalresearch.ca)