Its Official: America's Space Force is Better than Its Other Military Branches at 'Call of Duty' (taskandpurpose.com) 69
The military news site Task and Purpose reports:
The U.S. military's youngest branch, the Space Force, just trounced its sibling services, as well the United Kingdom's military, in the second annual Call of Duty Endowment Bowl.
The transatlantic Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War tournament pit eight teams from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Marine Corps, along with the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, against each other. Each team was captained by a civilian gamer and popular streamer who offered guidance and tips to players in real-time as they vied for the top spot...
The tournament was put on by the Call of Duty Endowment, which has placed more than 77,000 veterans into full-time jobs since its inception in 2009. This year alone, the endowment placed 11,000 veterans in jobs amidst the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
"Space Force isn't even a year old so this may have been their very first win in anything competitive against any of the other services," Dan Goldenberg, the endowment's executive director said during the event, according to Business Insider. "So it's a heck of a great way to start off their history."
The transatlantic Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War tournament pit eight teams from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Marine Corps, along with the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, against each other. Each team was captained by a civilian gamer and popular streamer who offered guidance and tips to players in real-time as they vied for the top spot...
The tournament was put on by the Call of Duty Endowment, which has placed more than 77,000 veterans into full-time jobs since its inception in 2009. This year alone, the endowment placed 11,000 veterans in jobs amidst the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
"Space Force isn't even a year old so this may have been their very first win in anything competitive against any of the other services," Dan Goldenberg, the endowment's executive director said during the event, according to Business Insider. "So it's a heck of a great way to start off their history."
What About Star Citizen? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe play a game that is related to your tasks. Like pin the tail on the donkey or something.
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Doesn't matter; it proves that Donald's people indeed are the best at cyber.
Well, raise your hand if you got into IT because of computer gaming.
Re: What About Star Citizen? (Score:1)
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Star Citizen is so buggy that I doubt an entire tournament could be completed without someone falling through a planet or what have you:
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You mean like the Army-Navy football games?
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As a Democrat, I winch at the thought.
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You guys need a new mascot. Like a rhino or something. Donkeys have a poor reputation.
Wasn't thinking about the mascot when I typed that out, but since you mention it, it does seem kinda extra funny.
As an anarchist, I don't put much thought into political crap.
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It's a tradition from a 150 year old-ish political cartoon. I don't know if the Democratic party can just pick another animal and have it "stick".
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So in addition to protecting your country, you expect them to spend their free time feeding the hungry?
Proceeds help veterans find jobs (Score:5, Informative)
Given the financial impact of the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic the Endowment saw a 30% increase in demand for job placements from veterans in 2020, Goldenberg told Task & Purpose, adding that this year the organization has helped place some 11,000 veterans in jobs — at an average cost of $499.
Since no government money was spent and the proceeds went to help find work for veterans that were unemployed, I don't understand your disapproval of this.
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Where did it say that Endowment is "divided by branches"?
Six months active duty (Score:3)
Wait, the Space Force has veterans? Already? What's the standard enlistment contract for it? 3 days?
Well its a year old and six months active duty (or equivalent number of days in Guard, Reserve, etc) is the line I believe. So some of the early members get to be vets. Ignoring the fact that they are nearly all already vets from Air Force service.
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If they're Air Force vets, then why are they being counted as Space Force vets for the purpose of this survey? Wouldn't it be logical to suggest this survey tells us nothing at all if they're going to call someone a "Space Force" vet simply because for a few days they were part of Space Force before leaving, when they've spent virtually their entire career in the Air Force?
"Vet" status generally refers to those eligible for veterans benefits once they are discharged. Some people as discharged in their first six months for "failure to adapt", ie they seem incapable of transforming from a civilian to a military member. Its not necessarily a dishonorable thing, it more an administrative thing and it makes one ineligible for veterans benefits. I pretty sure someone given a medical discharge due to injury is an exception to this six month rule, at least for care related to the inj
Re:Proceeds help veterans find jobs (Score:5, Informative)
I don't understand your disapproval of this.
You must be new here. At Slashdot we pride ourselves on our ignorance. What is most important is that we get angry rants and mod points, not that we make sense or understand what we are talking about.
It's tax-stealing scheme... (Score:1)
Since no government money was spent and the proceeds went to help find work for veterans that were unemployed, I don't understand your disapproval of this.
The "endowment" scheme is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation, [wikipedia.org] run by Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Meaning that whenever they take money from their right corporate pocket and put it in their left "non-profit" pocket - they get a tax refund.
To the tune of $228 million in 2018 alone. [charlieintel.com] While their domestic profit was $447 million.
That's a NEGATIVE 51% tax.
Straight out of taxpayers' pockets and into their corporate pockets - just for shifting some of their money from one pocket to another while pretending to be a char
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Giving away money to reduce taxable income does not save you money. The tax on the money given away would only be a percentage of the money itself. You could argue that funneling money to a 501(c)(3) they run doesn't count as giving it away, but the only thing they get for doing so is press coverage. There is no real financial benefit to giving to their own charity vs. any other.
The real reason they ended up getting such a large refund is because of a new Trump law that gives them a tax rebate for stock
It's stealing - not saving. (Score:2)
Who said anything about saving? They are STEALING money from the government. I.e. The taxpayers.
Also, one easy and simple way to pocket cash by operating your own charity is by paying yourself for running both company A and the charity B, ran by company A, which only has to payout 5% of it's annual "endowment" [pfs-llc.net] (AKA tax dodge).
It's literally taking money from right pocket and putting it in the left one - while demanding the government pay you for that "effort" because you're gonna give 5% of that money to "c
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As I was saying before some pathetic Candy Crush pro-gamer was granted his request by Robert Ass Kotick to take Bob's cock out of his throat and be fucked only up the ass for a while, so as to attempt to downmod reality...
The "endowment" scheme is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation, [wikipedia.org] run by Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Meaning that whenever they take money from their right corporate pocket and put it in their left "non-profit" pocket - they get a tax refund.
To the tune of $228 million in 2018 alone. [charlieintel.com] While their d
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Even if you get the money of every government and billionaire and try to share it with the poor, it won't be enough to feed em.
The value of the money comes from people working, so what you actually need to do is share work, not money.
Now that said, just fellating the megacorps will not solve anything, and ideally you want to make the country have as much small companies as possible.
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No, the value of money is based on the Supply and Demand of the currency.
You want that Dollar, you could exchange it for labor, but you could also trade a product for it, you could gamble for it, you can even give that person some money and they will pay you back plus that extra dollar. Someone could also just give you that dollar for a charity. In that case you can use that dollar in many other ways to get a labor you cannot do, get a product that you do not have, try to gamble it, or give it to someone
That's just stupid (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: That's just stupid (Score:2)
Not competent. Likabe with "the kids". You know "Hello, fellow kids!" :)
This is PPP. Pathetic propaganda/PR.
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It is meant as a moral boost for the soldiers.
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I doubt they're doing anything immoral - unless morale is really that bad.
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They are not Soldiers, they are called "Guardians".
However their mission seems dubious, as there currently is any real threat to our space infrastructure, that would need military style defense.
Usually for new branches of a military, they are broken from an existing unit, who had a specialist team who performed actions past their origional needs. Such as the Marines branching off the Navy. Or the Air Force split from the Army, as they were number of aircraft related actions.
The Space Force seems to be impl
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No, but it might keep them out of real trouble if they would otherwise bumble around looking for make-work.
Not really surprising (Score:4, Insightful)
How about a REAL war game? (Score:2)
put a full squad of the best "Guardians" in Space Force against some Navy Lieutenants who just finished training and got their commissions in a 7 day real life war game exercise and see how it goes.
Or for even more fun, put the Space Force squad against four Navy Seals :)
Nuke em from orbit (Score:2)
Just curious of you considered that it's entirely possible that Space Force guy could take out your four Navy Lieutenants without getting up from his chair. Just press this little button here ...
Officially, we're not supposed to have *nuclear* weapons in space under the OST, though any other weapons are allowed. Also officially, the NSA isn't supposed to collect information on Americans, and the F-117 officially didn't exist for seven years after it's first flights.
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Put the naval officers in charge of some virtual space ships and run some space ship combat drills against the space farce and see what's what...
Even better... (Score:1)
Just make them PROVE a real SPACE WAR. So, send them to the space and see what they can do.
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Most of the Military Units, were an offshoot of an existing military. The Army was using Aircraft, has people who knew how to fly them, and were tactics and methods in play, where the Air Force broke away from the Army.
The Space Force seems to just appear to fight off some invisible baddies who could possibly be a threat in the future. But currently have no real experience in it.
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Video Games are not like real life.
1. Games are Balanced, Real life isn't fair. Call of Duty wouldn't be so fun to play, if you start the game, then you are being bombs from above from aircraft you can't hit. As real life, a war starts out with one side or both sides with a rather strong military, where a single troop isn't going to do much.
2. Lives matter, You are not going to do something extra risky for points if it could kill you. Also if you are going to be shooting the bad guy, if you are not a psyc
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Video Games are not like real life.
Exactly.
Pitting soldiers with real world combat experience against a group with video game combat experience and then bragging about it is not a fair comparison. As you pointed out the mindsets and decisions made are going to be completely different. It's one of the main reasons i suck at PvP video games.
So, they should be putting both groups, all trained as real world combat personal during boot camp, into a real world scenario like they might actually end up in in the event of real military conflict and
breakdown of civil society (Score:2, Interesting)
Government employees playing violent video games; grown men should be taught to solve their problems without sticking a gun in people's faces.
Your taxes are being used for the militarization of the military.
Good at paintball too (Score:2)
this is the future of war (Score:2)
The future of war is video games anyway. It'll all be fought with robots and drones in some proxy country.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-t... [tv.com]
US Space Force (Score:2)
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What would you expect? (Score:1)
The new branch has nothing better to do, but tweedle their thumbs. Probably half their day is spent doing nothing.
Re: What would you expect? (Score:5, Funny)
Sooo unlike other branches of the military. ;)
At least, from my experience with German, US and UK bases in Germany, the order of activity priorities seems to go like this:
1. Drinking.
2. Cleaning.
3. Twiddling thumbs, all five of 'em.
4. Special occasion drinking.
5. Special occasion cleaning.
6. Special occasion half-assed military training.
7. Flying to a foreign country for special half-assed military training.
8. Flying to a foreign country for special half-assed military offensive killing for somebody's profit.
9. Flying to a foreign country for special half-assed military defending against some wannabe warroirs before they become bigger than three people.
10. Dying. Of alcohol poisoning. (Jesus, they can drink!)
It's official: NOBODY CARES! (Score:1)
It's also official: Slashdot is a dead man walking... now in high-heels ... cross-dressing as Lady Buzzfeed ... throwing hisher hair around, trying to impress everyone with hisher sparkling red sequins ... but having forgotten herhis pasty hairy bigfoot legs underneath.
Stunning and beautiful.
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This must be one of those advanced thoughts your signature alludes to. I don't know what has happened to you in the last 6 or so months, but I hope it stops. Or you leave. Either is good.
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A few words into reading a comment here, the thing starts to reek of bullshit, I look up and sure enough, there is your dumb name and your superiority complex shining ever so brightly.
In reality too (Score:2)
They never have killed everybody at a wedding reception (multiple times), no Kandahar massacre, no My Lai....
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They never have killed everybody at a wedding reception (multiple times), no Kandahar massacre, no My Lai....
Be patient, give them time and opportunity, and they will surely sink as low as our other armed forces.
Space Force on Netflix got this right... (Score:2)
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The Coast Guard has better snipers than the freakin’ Marine Corps [taskandpurpose.com]
huh??? (Score:1)
And, I needed to know this, why?
They get bragging rights... (Score:2)
Tax dollars at work (Score:2)
I'm glad to see our multi trillion dollar funding of the military is being put to good use! /s
What else do they have to do? (Score:2)
Itâ(TM)s not like we have any space fighters or space battleships for them to actually go out and âspace forceâ(TM) in. So of course they have more time to waste on Xbox live or whatever than the other branches.