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“There will be a direct line from this investment into [the real world],” said Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy, commanding general of Marine Corps Education Command and president of Marine Corps University. “The actual skills translate directly into making good decisions under high stress.”

Researchers from the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech and the University of Memphis recently deployed a program that leverages a modified version of the 2007 game “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” at Marine Corps University in Quantico. Developed for the Sergeants School, the students engage in tailored scenarios that allow them to hone skills such as leadership, critical thinking, decision-making, and communication in real time. The modified game platform also collects player data to be analyzed by a large language model for ways to enhance after-action reviews.

Two more Coloradans came forward after that story aired. Both were surrounded by law enforcement. Both were unaware whether they were removed from a police hotlist, and one of them is a 76-year-old grandmother.

Neither had done anything wrong. Both had been quietly sitting in a police database for who knows how long.

Sarah Judson was headed to Superior last December to see her grandchildren at her daughter's house. She said she was driving on McCaslin Boulevard when she passed a Flock camera. Soon, Boulder County Sheriff's deputies were pulling her over near a roundabout. Two deputies approached, she said. One at her window, one on the passenger side.

"I stuck my head out of the window and said, 'Hello?"' Judson recalled. "And so I think about that time he realized I wasn't the ringleader of some stolen plate deal."

The deputy, she said, told her the cameras had flagged her plate as matching a stolen vehicle out of Colorado Springs, and that the alerts from the Flock cameras would keep coming.

A video game is helping improve Marine Corps training