Philadelphia's Franklin Mills Mall has got several army enthuziasts buzzing about its new AEC(Army Experience Center),where you can experience how an army life and training goes about first hand thanks to high-tech simulators, video games and interactive displays that try to depict what real life in the armed forces would be like.Experiencing the Army life seems to be a fun way to know more about the armed forces and their ethics ,training drills and gadgets and ammunitions.The U.S military is firmly behind such initiatives to make people get a feel of things about how the army works and also enable puvlic to interact with soldiers in a moe informal way.
The video gaming sector in the AEC is divided into two sections -the Xbox 360 and the PC sections. The PC section comes with America's Army,Call Of Duty 4 ,Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas,Ghost Recon and World of Warcraft. and the Xbox section has additionally got Halo 3,Madden NFL and the gears of war 2 to lure visitors.'s Army -the U.S army's official game is seemed to have inspired many to join the armed forces according to a recent survey.All ages are allowed to visit the AEC but to participate in any of the activities, visitors must be at least 13 years old.
The main attraction of the Experience Center is the Black Hawk Simulator in which participants experience flying through a mountain village whilst shooting at enemies to protect a U.S. convoy headed to a medical facility.Besides the Black Hawk, the centre has also got the HMMWV and the Apache simulators which is the next best thing to the real ones.The AEC also provides the global base locator facility which enables users to view all america's military bases around the world.Tactical ops centre is ery helpful as well.
