{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?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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In an outreach effort to reach out to potential gamer recruits, the Navy is actively seeking gamers to join its esports team. 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. \u201cCentennials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-xNP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}