The video-Gaming of Military Training

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Brian MacQuarrie, Practicing war — and watching it — in real time; New
military system offers bases such as Camp Edwards a unique training
opportunity. Boston Globe, June 12, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/12/mobile_military_system_simulates_battles/

Note:
(a) Camp Edwards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Edwards
(in Barnstable County, Massachusetts; named after Major General Clarence
Edwards)

Barnstable County is basically Cape Cod. Its county seat is City of
Barnstable, which was named after Barnstaple, Devon, England.

(b) Company (military unit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_(military_unit)
("In the United States Army, infantry companies [typically consisting of 75-
200 soldiers] are usually made up of three rifle platoons and a heavy
weapons platoon * * * A company is usually commanded by an Army captain * *
* Companies which are not separate from their parent battalion are
identified by letter - for example, "A Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry
Regiment." The letters are usually pronounced using the NATO phonetic
alphabet * * * resulting in names such as 'Bravo Company' and 'Echo Company'
")

(c) SRI International
http://www.sri.com

Its training program in focus is
Deployable Force-on-Force Instrumented Range System (DFIRST)
http://www.dfirst.com
(" comprehensive instrumented training system for armored ground combat
maneuver and gunnery training")

(d) Menlo Park, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
(Two Irish immigrants purchased the land  and in the 1850s erected a gate
with a wooden arch bearing the inscription "Menlo Park" at the entrance to
their property. The word "Menlo" derived from the owners' former home of
Menlough in County Galway, Ireland.)

(e) pan (vi, vt): "to rotate (as a motion-picture camera) so as to keep an
object in the picture or secure a panoramic effect"
(f) ID = identify
(g) mock (adj): "of, relating to, or having the character of an imitation :
SIMULATED, FEIGNED"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.

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