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I think that we recruit some numbers of people who fall for the video game versions of the Army and SF, and seem to think that they will do well in SF because they were able to play the game well.
On the cold water in the face side, by the time they complete OSUT and Airborne schools, they have learned that the Army is not a video game, it is very much physically demanding and real.
There is nothing wrong with playing video games for recreation, same as any other hobby, as long as you are not operating under the illusion that it represents the real world.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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