A few places around the Internet have noted that the United States Army has decided to get a bit weirder as it gets ready to start up a new recruitment scheme inside of the infamous virtual world Second Life. Now, while this might seem fairly strange, given that the army has also developed a video game for the purpose of recruitment in the past, and that Second Life does boast a fair number of inhabitants with a pretty easy system for building new locations, it actually doesn’t shock me too much at all. If anything, I’m much more surprised that they haven’t been doing this already. More so with all of those terrorist training camps around Second Life, right?
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