This is nothing new. Mothers of KIA and WIA and MIA have been fighting the entertainment industry for years, especially in the last decade when war games became dominant in gaming. Heck, my own mom is fighting it right now in her own subtle ways. I just covertly fight back.
I say leave us alone. let us have our games without this holier-than-thou battle. One thing my mom tells me is if I want some realistic military action, I should go to a vet hospital and see some of the people that come back from real war. I won't take it that far, but the impression she gave for a while was that the only perspective I have on the military is what I see through games. That's bullshit. I'm a cadet in an Air Force auxillary volunteer program, and my role there is currently a flight sergeant. my rank is Cadet Master Sergeant, and I went to a week-long boot camp of sorts at the Air force Academy, where I met several academy graduates, active duty servicemen and women, commissioned officers, and even a retired fighter pilot, who became one of my best friends that week. This year for memorial day I went to two All-day events in one weekend. Not as a guest, but as worker, where my job mostly consisted of standing stock-still in the sun for hours on end in a three-layer Air-Force uniform. sounds miserable, right? Wrong! I had a great time both days, and I'm doing it all again next year!
So don't tell me i know nothing about the real military. If I want some modern shooting action in my games, that's my right. And don't tell me ship myself off to the middle east for some authentic action, either. cause I will end up there at some point or another anyway. whether I enlist or get a commission at the end of college, I am going to be a soldier someday.
Will I end up buying this game? most likely not. I can't dish out the cash, and I'm saving for HAWX and Ace combat. But leave us alone and don't try to limit our ways of passing the time cause you think it insults the memory of real soldiers. Nobody pressed your face against the screen and surgically attached a controller to your hands. if you don't like us, just ingnore us. and maybe we'll extend the same courtesy to you. but if you keep trying to fight us, we'll fight back even harder.
