Navy Issues Tablets To Prepare Sailors For Careers Working With 1970s Electronics
GREAT LAKES, Ill. — Navy’s Recruit Training Command (RTC) has launched a pilot program to give incoming recruits tablet computers to prepare them for working on electronics from the 1970s.
“This is a great moment for our Navy,” Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens said as he handed out the first tablets to new recruits. “This is a cost effective way to replace the two books we issue at boot camp and it will also streamline the training process so recruits can spend more time folding clothes.”
In a demonstration for reporters, Stevens showed off several games the tablets would have pre-loaded.
“One of my favorite games is called 'Gray Blaster,' where players are ordered to paint over chipped paint, then told to scrape off the old paint that’s under a wet coat of fresh paint, then they are yelled at for doing a bad paint job. There is also a game designed to teach sailors the perils of human trafficking.”
“Most of our electronic equipment was designed back in the 1970s,” Stev…
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