{"id":129941,"date":"2022-08-31T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129941"},"modified":"2022-08-30T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:20:45","slug":"navy-looking-for-a-few-good-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129941","title":{"rendered":"Navy looking for a few good … thumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an outreach effort to reach out to potential gamer recruits, the Navy is actively seeking gamers to join its esports team.<\/p>\n

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Navy officials are hoping its esports team \u2014 Goats and Glory, a part of the service\u2019s recruiting command \u2014 will be one small part of a solution to attract a younger audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cCentennials are moving into digital spaces for most of their content consumption and social interactions, and the [e]sports domain is one of the most popular and vibrant online arenas to date,\u201d a NAVADMIN message<\/a> said. \u201cConnecting and attracting the best talent requires the Navy to be in the same spaces where those future Sailors reside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selected sailors will receive three-year orders to the team\u2019s facility in Memphis, Tennessee, naval flight officer Lt. Aaron Jones,<\/a> the team\u2019s captain, said during a Twitch livestream<\/a> event last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sounds like they are taking it seriously. Three year stabilized tours to play video games? Now, in fairness: the other services have esports teams as well (in a recent playoff Air Force beat the other services) and I guess in a world of remote controlled drones, that someone gifted at one kind of video-gaming may have a reflex or coordination advantage which could help us win.<\/p>\n

Somehow, though, I keep hearing an echo in my head of Tom Cruise explaining how expertise in “Stocker” will soon be an essential military skill.<\/p>\n

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