User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part По-русски/@comment-1260687-20100324230134

The only experience that I've had with any type of interactive media for military training is as follows:

After we got back from my first deployment, we were training at an Army base in Virginia, and they had a sort of first person shooter that simulated a convoy taking fire. While the instructor was explaining to us how to control the characters, we had figured it out and were shooting each other. One of our squad leaders had driven his HMMWV up a hill a few hundred meters from our convoy, and called an artillery strike on our position, and killed himself with a grenade. We were banned and weren't allowed back due to a "belligerent attitude with the instructor."