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The US Military is opening an office dedicated entirely to creating gaming sims for training purposes.

Called the Training and Doctrine Command's Project Office for Gaming, or TPO Gaming, the office will focus on making dull military sims more realistic. It will be housed in the Army's Kansas-based National Simulation Center, Wired reports.

TPO Gaming is also planning a tool kit that allows soldiers to create and customize their own training scenarios.

According to TSJOnline, "The Marine Corps has already pioneered the concept with its Virtual Battlespace 2, an adaption of the Armed Assault first-person-shooter."

US Army training sims are no strangers to gaming. Originally developed as a way to attract recruits, its America's Army game got a makeover for a new marketing campaign last year and is now used as a training sim.

In October, British intelligence launched a campaign effort to recruit gamers onto its force. The group perceives gamers as IT-savvy and possessed of good hand-eye coordination.