Posted on 01/18/2008 7:15:08 PM PST by fr_freak
Think playing video games is little more than a great way to waste time? Then you haven't met Paxton Galvanek. Last November, the twenty-eight year-old helped rescue two victims from an overturned SUV on the shoulder of a North Carolina interstate. As the first one on the scene, Galvanek safely removed both individuals from the smoking vehicle and properly assessed and treated their wounds, which included bruises, scrapes, head trauma and the loss of two fingers.
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Hey now! Don’t be casting aspersions on us over 50 folks. Some of us know our way around some computer programs. I will not lie and say I’m that proficient, but the things I WANT to learn, I can learn rather well. ;o)
Gee ya think. Good eye. (it even gives the link to the game)
I guess a First Aid or CERT/First Responder class could have sufficed...
LOL
My son shot expert with the M4, M203 and SMAW at USMC basic. We figure he had about 10K hours of weapons sim time by he hit Basic (video + airsoft gaming). He was used to all the different sighting devices to include the RPG 7.
His DI was most curious at our visit opon his graduation. Just for the record I retired from the uSAF - but encouraged my son to learn all he could - from any source.
how, exactly, is that apparent?
dig deep, and formulate a reasoned response.
It'll be a good exercise for you.
There is absolutely no doubt that it was the American’s Army military PR staff that contacted this reporter Ben Silverman and spoonfed him this story. Absolutely no doubt that the America’s Army PR staff coached and fed the hero of this tory his quotes for publications. Having done the entire 10 minutes it takes to do the “medic training” in the AA game, this story comes off as beyond a disgusting sham, reeks of desperation on the part of the AA development staff, and is outright pathetic.
Well, considering the article came from the video game portion of Yahoo's website, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Whatever.
That's as reasoned as you 'apparently' deserve. ;o)
How about a virtual walk through cradle to grave of every constitutional founder? I’m in.
Another good example of how computer gaming can teach is in the field of history.
To most kids, the Normandy landings seem dull and boring and might as well be lightyears removed from their reality, because all there are of the real landings is still photos and some bad films. They just don’t appreciate it - all it is is words and still pictures in a book they have to learn.
Put that same kid down in front of Medal Of Honor on the computer and the whole thing changes. You’re in the leading wave of the Omaha beach landing there... the boat ramp goes down... and you’re in the anteroom of Hell itself when the Germans open up from the cliffs. Sometimes you get out of the boat. Sometimes you’re shot immediately. Most of the time you die long, long before you get to the beach.
Omaha Beach vets said that the game level was pretty realistic. Kids (and young adults that played it) suddenly realized just how *hard* that was, and gained a new appreciation for history and the hard men that charged into the surf at Normandy, oh those many years ago.
At a guess, no one here has read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, either.
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