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July 13, 2005
This is embarrassing
It seems the Israeli Defense Force uses some unusual screening procedures when assigning new recruits to their duties.
As if new recruits in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) didn’t have enough to worry about, they have now found that they will have less chance of getting a good job if the military discovers they play RPGs (Role Playing Games), especially Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). It was long suspected that the IDF took a dim view of recruits who admitted to playing D&D. But now the IDF has admitted that recruits who admit to this sort of thing are less likely to get a high security clearance...
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The IDF based its policy on university research, which concluded that RPG players were “detached from reality” to the extent that they would be poor security risks.
Come on now, IDF. Everybody knows D&D is a perfect training device for undercover intelligence operatives. If you need someone to pose as a Palestinian half-orc or bard in order to infiltrate an organization, who better to do that than a young Israeli man who has spent his youth rolling dice with more than six sides? And if these recruits went beyond table-top gaming to full on LARPing, they'll also be pretty good with a bo staff or a mace.
Two D&D posts in one week won't score me any chicks. Luckily Sarah has a thing for nerds.
Posted by Half-Cocked at July 13, 2005 08:10 PM
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