{"id":1813,"date":"2005-02-12T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T00:57:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-12T17:57:35","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T00:57:35","slug":"virtual-military-training-cgi-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/12\/virtual-military-training-cgi-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual military training &#8211; CGI Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/21237\/\">&#8220;Waging war isn&#8217;t about fun and games. Or is it? A visit to one of the world&#8217;s biggest conventions for military training technology reveals that today&#8217;s armed forces are taking cues from video games, theme parks and Hollywood.&#8221;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Now, you can also use this to enhance the experience,&#8221; the VirTra rep continues, fastening a thick, black device around his waist. The &#8220;threat-fire belt,&#8221; he explains, issues an electric shock to the trainee if he or she is hit by the imaginary bullet of a virtual assailant, who might appear anywhere on the semicircular screen. &#8220;If you get hit in the back, trust me, you&#8217;ll remember it. This one will bring you to your knees. The whole idea is to fight through the pain, and keep on going, just the way that you&#8217;ve been trained.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Waging war isn&#8217;t about fun and games. Or is it? A visit to one of the world&#8217;s biggest conventions for military training technology reveals that today&#8217;s armed forces are taking cues from video games, theme parks and Hollywood.&#8221; &#8220;Now, you can also use this to enhance the experience,&#8221; the VirTra rep continues, fastening a thick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}