Anecdotes from ROTC

[thomaso827]

Gaming had been a help in several instances back in the day. 1976 in Korea, a friend kept a game set up on his dresser in the barracks, and when the company commander walked through weekly for inspection, he would come in, look at the game in progress for a few minutes, and walk out. I used the game Firepower to teach field and combat skills to junior chaplain assistants when I couldn't get time for field training. When teaching military history to the Chaplain Officer Advanced Course at Fort Monmouth, NJ, I brought in my 15mm American Civil War troops and laid out parts of the Antietam battle on table top, and one chaplain officer advanced student was an avid ASL player, so I spent many of my Staff Duty NCO nights playing against him.

Tom Oxley