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Responding quickly to
the enemy's ever-changing tactics has proved that toughness task in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Now, the army is transforming the complexities and the dilemmas of combat
into computer simulations, a
no-nonsense
version of the video game
today's soldiers grew up playing.
Because it's a game,
you get their intention just like that.
Retired army sergeant Mark Covey runs what is undoubtedly the most high-stakes
video gaming center in the world.
It sounds like the Xbox war.
it's exactly the Xbox war.
That's just the beginning of what the army has in mind.
This is the next step in serious gaming for training.
And that's
to take a soldier and put him in the gaming environment.
And so in this case
You don't want in the Humvee.
3D battlefield simulation.
And there's another thing you wouldn't expect on a military base.
With help from Hollywood the Army is making training as close to the real
thing as possible.
We have 1...2...3, 4. Four sniper shots up on the lefthand side.
over.
The idea is to train soldiers to adapt to the enemies latest tactics before
they ever get to the battlefield.
Good to go. You're ready to go swimming.
Good to go for a Hollywood produced ride through a gauntlet of roadside bombs.
The aim is to find them before they find you.
(talking) whoa!
Grappling with the unpredictability of war likely to break out in the next decade
is the military's challenge.
Its success or failure will determine where America stands.
I'm David Martin at Fort Eustis in Virginia.
That story tonight on the CBS evening news with Katie Couric.