The new Army: A Newport News tech center uses gaming and apps to train soldiers

http://articles.dailypress.com/2012-01-28/news/dp-nws-high-tech-training-20120128_1_training-exercises-army-s-training-latest-training-tool

This is a picture from the above article taken of me walking the reporter through the Battle of COP Keating in our virtual immersive environment.  I used various Military sources, both classified and unclassified to build a virtual tour of the battle.  I programmed several time jump points, but the battle will run for the entire 15 hours.

 

 

Virtual training expands as military evolves

http://www.stripes.com/news/virtual-training-expands-as-military-evolves-1.165507

U.S. Army Turns to Games for Training

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/10/jtcoic/all/1

Training Brain Operations Center Systems Integration Modeling and Simulation

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=27948

Spanish language site discussing our Ganjgal Lessons Learned Video

http://tirotactico.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/recreacion-de-la-batalla-del-valle-ganjgal-del-08sep09-donde-el-infante-de-marina-dakota-meyer-se-gano-la-medalla-de-honor/

Virtual OPFOR Academy

https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/VOA

The VOA provides users the information, tools, and resources to learn, apply, and replicate OPFOR counter-tasks to achieve unit training objectives within a collective training environment by exposing users to OPFOR tasks, conditions and standards. The tasks presented on VOA are OPFOR Tasks in support of Combined Arms Training Strategy events.

VOA Offensive Task 2. Ambush (Immersive)
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/784334/voa-offensive-task-2-ambush-immersive
This task depicts an OPFOR mechanized Company Detachment conducting an assault on a BLUFOR unit in a hasty defense.