Marine Infantry School Official: Today’s Gamer Marines Missing Intellectual “Hunting” Skills

By Debbie Schlussel
While video games are touted as ways to improve shooting and other tactical skills, a generation of Marines who are playing video games more and hunting and analyzing the outdoors less is missing crucial skills.
That’s not me talking. It’s Col. Fred Padilla of the U.S. Marine Corps’ School of Infantry West, which now must train Marines in a way they didn’t have to in the past. A new program, “Combat Hunter” teaches new Marines the skills they used to learn while hunting and tracking.
The headline in an AP story on this calls it “Brainpower Over Firepower.” While hunting and hunters in America are derided as the activity of hicks and rural folk, clearly AP–and the Marines–are admitting that hunting does, indeed, teach skills of cunning and other important aspects of intellect:

Comments

chuckles norris

You have to admire our Marines.

Woodrow W

Nice gobbler.

Warrior Outdoors

chuckles and woodrow i agree with both of you