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A recent press release published on Pentagon's own news website, DVIDS, claims that the so-called "Nintendo Generation" of military recruits has frail skeletons due to not having been toughened by previous physical activity. At the same time, the US military doesn't shy away from using video games such as Call of Duty: Warzone to enlist young people into its ranks.

Specifically, the issue seems to stem from the claims that recruits between 18 and 25 years of age aren't as physically tough as some previous generations had been, with the implication being that it was video games such as Call of Duty: Warzone that are causing this. At the same time, the article says these recruits belong to the "Nintendo Generation", which actually includes people born in the mid-'80s and mid-'90s.

According to Major Jon-Marc Thibodeau, the current clinical coordinator and chief of the medical readiness service line in Missouri's Fort Leonard Wood, "the [recruits'] soldier skeleton is not toughened by activity prior to arrival," which means that said recruits "break more easily" during active training.

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It's the way they are raised I guess. Yeah, it's because parents are tough on their kids and therefore they lack the respect or effort it takes to make their colleagues and higher-ups satisfied. It was in part too that after WW2 the economy in Japan leaned towards businesses like Nintendo and keep their economy going. But CoD is their double-edged sword. If you want people using CoD to train then stop saying all this other hypocrisy. We have a whole setup of eSports-sponsored big-name companies you can scoff at. Anyways we shouldn't have gone to war and it's in part by corrupt people at the top just saying what they want instead of what matters. We need to militarize games if this becomes a problem in the future but who do you think didn't take the time for it?
 
I think video games are not the main reason for army recruits being weaker.

I read news articles that say many millions of children are living in poverty in the USA. Poverty can make children weaker if they don't have access to nutritious healthy food, medicine, and a stable home to protect them from the cold winters, and hot summer heat.

Many poor children don't have a lot of free time to do more intensive exercise like weight lifting as much because they may need to go to public libraries which maybe many miles away from their home. They may need to go to the library to borrow books they can't afford to buy or can't afford an eReader to read eBooks which can also be very expensive. Some students may need to use the public library's high speed internet and computers to finish their homework assignments, and study, so a lot of their non-school time will be spent traveling to the library, borrowing and returning books, finishing their homework, and studying on the libraries' computers, and using free wi-fi to connect their laptop to the internet to finish their homework, or browse educational and work related websites.

Many poor students have after school jobs like babysitting, and work online doing tasks like paid surveys, data entry, video blogging, blogging,etc to earn money to buy school supplies, food, medicine, used car, and other items they may need for school, work, or to take care of their family members who need help, so working at a job can make students to exercise because rhey don't have the time or energy for exercise after working many hours.
 
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Artisan Vistra said:
It's the way they are raised I guess. Yeah, it's because parents are tough on their kids and therefore they lack the respect or effort it takes to make their colleagues and higher-ups satisfied. It was in part too that after WW2 the economy in Japan leaned towards businesses like Nintendo and keep their economy going. But CoD is their double-edged sword. If you want people using CoD to train then stop saying all this other hypocrisy. We have a whole setup of eSports-sponsored big-name companies you can scoff at. Anyways we shouldn't have gone to war and it's in part by corrupt people at the top just saying what they want instead of what matters. We need to militarize games if this becomes a problem in the future but who do you think didn't take the time for it?
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Call of Duty isn’t used to train, it’s a recruitment tool.

“You play CoD right? Well the Army is just like CoD, so just sign on the dotted lines”.
 
Grungie said:
Call of Duty isn’t used to train, it’s a recruitment tool.

“You play CoD right? Well the Army is just like CoD, so just sign on the dotted lines”.
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Waiting for F1 to do the same for Mario Kart players.
 
Grungie said:
Call of Duty isn’t used to train, it’s a recruitment tool.

“You play CoD right? Well the Army is just like CoD, so just sign on the dotted lines”.
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This:

Although yeah there is a difference between a controller and full-body motion. But hey, you can still play it on base when they don't need you right?
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Most likely and probably the ones complaining on twitter right now about not wanting to go to war.
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That bugs me. Of course, we don't like war but would you rather do that or look at the price of gas go up. Russians have a draft too though so I hope they complain on Twitter all they want.
 
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