A discussion, when does a game become.....bad???

[nichols]

I'm not sure if this should be here under TTPs or training?

Here's a video of terrorist or possibly a high school kid created from a commercial game called Armed Assualt:

http://mediacenter.corriere.it/Media...aMC_corriere_1

The VBS-2 TDS that the Corps has is based off of that game engine.

Capabilities:

1. There are additional capabilites that the military version has; pulling in NGA data for geo-specific mission rehearsal, pulling in 3rd party artificial intelligence for geo-specific "civilian and badguy," multiple 'nicholized' editing capabilities so that the end user can modify the game without requiring computer skills, instructor ability to insert additional events while the scenario is playing, and an advanced AAR capability.

2. We just began fielding the Deployable Virtual Training Environment (DVTE) last December, 1 suite consists of 33 high end laptop computers. It has multiple training simulations. Currently they are being fielded to the Regimental Level, next year they go to the Battalion Level. This is an unclass system.

Now for the discussion.......

The software, hardware, and users are not 'classified.'

Putting unclassified geo-specific terrain is not 'classified'

Marines training on the system is not 'classified'

After Action Review that captures the TTPs used is 'classified'???

When we have this fully fielded (hardware/software) it has the potential to become a one time use item. As soon as TTPs are captured, all computers become 'classified' and now the bulk of the Marines can no longer touch the computers because they don't have a clearance.