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Finally some respect from thouse mouse clicking Washington types. Brush up in the sim guys, Uncle Sam needs you.

DefenseTech.Org reports

Air Force Wants Space War Game

Blasting pixilated space ships can be mighty fun, as anyone who's ever played Galaga can tell you. The Air Force thinks it can put all that joystick time to good use, too -- by using games to help airmen prepare for real-life outer space combat.
The service is looking for game maker to build a sim for what it calls “counterspace operations” -- military-speak for stopping enemy satellites.
Right now, it’s hard to train folks to handle these kinds of missions. Wargaming in orbit is an expensive and risky proposition. And most – but definitely not all -- of the coolest counterspace toys are still on the drawing board. So the Air Force wants a video game “where these tasks can be trained and rehearsed in a realistic set of scenarios and simulations.”

[Read More at DefenseTech.org]
[Related Article at Joystiq]

Time to dust off the old X45 and have my old AF Blues let out a bit.

[vorlon31]

LOL next they will drop the airforce jokeys altogether and have gamers doing the missions.

LOL Its the last starfighter allover again. If they find flux out there tho - sign me up.