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By Melanthia Mitchell
The Associated Press
FORT LEWIS — Today's military has switched from the traditional "Uncle Sam wants you" message to high-profile, high-tech recruitment tools: NASCAR sponsorships, online games and "PowerPoint rangers."
The military is going after Internet-savvy prospective soldiers on their own terms — even using the Fort Lewis Army base and its units as the backdrop for a computer game and a commercial geared toward recruitment...
Recently computer-software developers watched an anti-terrorist-training mission by the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, a Stryker combat team at Fort Lewis.
Soldiers barreled through buildings in a mock-up of a city in Iraq. A "grenade" permeated the air with daffodil-yellow smoke, and Arabian music blared above "gunfire" and soldiers' shouts.
The detail is to be used in the latest version of "America's Army," the service's online-gaming tool touting its elite fighting units. The newest version of the computer game is set for release in April and will be available at local recruiting stations.