Indeed lol, but seriously, you should think they had other things to spent money on :X

promoting proper education ?
So for you is ok to make the war look like a game. just go in there kill a few people, doesn't matter, it's just like in a game.
The Army Experience, what does this tell you, it tells you: How the army is, and the army/war is not a game, real people die, and they die for nothing, because some stupid power hungry imbeciles get to say what you should do.
US is well-known for their brain-washing programs, you play a war game while they preach in your head that you should join the army to server your country(first of all, you should serve the planet not the country, because you are an inhabitant of this planet), it doesn't matter if you pay attention to what they are saying, it goes into your subconscious. At least there are still people who protest against such idiocracy.
If you think this is not inappropriate well then, i'm really sorry for you.

You completely miss the point seeing as I actually sympathise with the protesters. But they are still wrong, and your comment suggests you are merely anti-American since your criticism is both irrelevant and subjective. All three of the FPS games mentioned are 16+ which means those who are able to play them are already eligible to join the armed forces, or at least eligible to go through the recruitment process. Most armies will not send new recruits out into the battlefield until they are 18 or over. You are essentially suggesting that these young people are not capable of making their own decisions when they clearly are.

I said, however, that America's Army (True Soldiers) is completely inappropriate. It was clearly made to stimulate recruitment levels. But it is not the army which is the issue, and as far as I am aware the game plays like any other FPS except the army monitor who plays and who has a tendency to do well (notice my initial comment why the army is interested in gamers). The army existed before computer technology, and my real-life example was to suggest that there is still a significant difference between the armies virtual training techniques and cultural constructions like Call of Duty 4. Games sell themselves on interpretations of conceptual realism which glorify war but anyone with any self-respect and intelligence will know there is a difference. I do not read War and Peace and decide I want to kill the French for a living nor do I play Call of Duty and decide a trip to Iraq is on the agenda.

I'm not anti-American, i'm just anti-Stupidity, which seems to be growing at a fast rate these days(Stupidity).
And no, i don't think you should ask kids to join the army by leuring them with games. it's like a pedophile is leuring a kid with candy. It ain't right under no circumstances.
i cannot see for the life of me how by offering kids to play games for free you ask them to join the army is a proper education, you get hyped from a game, the guy who is preaching makes it sound like it's the best thing in the world and you fall for it. you can read: You can play games freely while they preach to you about the army, and the games of choice are fps. Why not chess ? well cause chess isn't about war, and doesn't make the war look "cool".

You are a wrong for two reasons:

The people that play these games are not children because the games have age ratings which mean children cannot play, and I assume the army is intelligent enough not to allow minors to play the likes of Call of Duty 4 unlike most LAN centres thus avoiding moral outrage and any legal implications. The people playing FPS games in this centre are old enough to join the army and make they own decisions, and you are not in a position to judge them. The list clearly states that Madden NFL 09 is one of the games played at the centre so your criticism is wholly unjustified, and to state that chess is not about war just shows how dumb you are. The game pieces are pawn (infantry), knight (cavalry), bishop (elephants), and rook (chariotry) [modern variation versus Ancient in brackets].

You make assumptions about what the centre does without any proof what so ever. I already explained what the army does with its game American Army, and I assume in order to play at this centre you have to be added to their database which means you may receive information through the post. Yes they want you to join but how is this any different than having recruitment stands at career events and during freshers week at every college and university in the country? Your comparison to paedophilia, while theoretically legitimate, is completely inappropriate given the context and the numerous examples I have given which you choose to ignore over and over again.

You use the same logic as Christians who say that giving 'children' information about sex and sexual health encourages them to have sex - it is utter nonsense. Your anti-American tirade reeks of ignorance and questionable morals and I am not going to waste my time arguing with you any more.

Good point. A number of European countries (especially Nordic countries) have conscription but the UK and US do not.