Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life 379
russoc4 writes "Most people who play the United States Army's freeware FPS sit through training simulations so that they may be able to get into the action and rack up some kills. The medic skills learned in the training allow you to heal teammates in the game, but it seems that they also apply in real life situations. According to Wired and the America's Army forums, 'a North Carolina man who saw an SUV flip and roll on a highway last November was able to provide medical aid to the victims with skills he learned from the America's Army.'" See? We learn things from videogames! Feign Death works sometimes, too.
Yeah! (Score:5, Funny)
YES!!! (Score:5, Funny)
And yes I am being serious.
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Yes you can learn things (Score:5, Funny)
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Let's just hope... (Score:5, Funny)
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BF2 is not so good in this area (Score:5, Funny)
A buddy of mine got knocked out when I threw a first aid kit and it hit him on the head.
And the shock paddles only made things worse.
Valuable skills (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Qualifying as a Medic (Score:5, Funny)
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Does AA have a Cardboard Box? (Score:2, Funny)
You can infiltrate classified military installations by disguising yourself as an innocuous cardboard box. There's nothing more indispensable than a pack of smokes. And nothing in the entire arsenal of the Military-Industrial Complex is as singularly lethal as a ninja.
Re:YES!!! (Score:5, Funny)
(apologies to Roger Waters)
Re:Valuable skills (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:YES!!! (Score:4, Funny)
He's suing the US Army for undermining his position. And he's including gay soldier porn with the filing.*
-nB
*because it's Jack: The aforementioned statement was not meant to represent that I know or spoke with Jack Thompson (who is known to file gay porn for some weird reason), nor is anything other than the statement that Jack sees some (weird) reason to file gay porn meant to be a statement of fact. It is this posters opinion that Jack is deranged enough to actually sue the US Army, and in his style would file gay porn, in addition I am positing that Jack would try to stay with the theme and make it gay soldier porn in his posting. If Jack is willing to go with Lesbian soldier porn I will consider reading his filing for spelling errors. Also this disclaimer and all of this post is this posters opinion and makes no assertions of fact or prior knowledge. This is because even though I believe my opinions are true, Jack may not. Then he would sue me. Then I would have to go make a violent video game of me dying via Gay Soldier Porn, to prove some weird point to Jack so he would donate to the charity of my choice (Shriners hospital in Sac CA please), then he would renege [joystiq.com] on it and PennyArcade [joystiq.com] would have to step up on it again.
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Re:BF2 is not so good in this area (Score:2, Funny)
One day I was driving down the road when my car turned off. Turned out the timing belt snapped. Good thing I was a squad leader because I just requested a vehicle drop and the commander delivered right away. While I used that car a fellow teammate started to fix my other car with a "magic wrench".
Before Patch 1.3 this was not possible for cars to be dropped. Thank goodness for this new gift from EA.
Well, I think I killed the humor but I'll post this anyway...
Re:LOOK! (Score:3, Funny)
There are many like it, but this one is MINE!
What I learned from AA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:YES!!! (Score:3, Funny)
DaedalusHKX (660194): Yes... I'm having difficulty controlling THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE.