The American army, in the search of payrolls sufficient for its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, innovates. She seeks to attract the young recruits thanks to the video games and with the softwares of simulation.

Philadelphia lodges a crossing between the reception room of a hotel and a gaming room. Far from the environment of the traditional recruitment center, one finds there 60 CP and 19 Xbox consoles 360, as well as a series of interactive screens describing with force details the life in the bases of the army and the options of career.

The invested illion dollars in this space located at the shopping mall Franklin Millets. The potential recruits can extend on settees with the sound from a music rock'n'roll.

This center, open since August, is the first of the kind within the framework of an experiment which runs over two years. It allowed the recruitment of 33 soldiers and five reservists, which corresponds approximately to the number of soldiers that the five traditional centers would have recruited that it replaced.

In a room with share, the young men are invited “to fire” from a true armored vehicle, on enemy campings projected on a 4,5 height meters screen, with deafening sound effects.

In another part, they can take part in raids of helicopters against the “malicious ones” leaving their dens, which they mow with the machine-gun with the controls of a simulator of Apache or .