Video games kick ass because for many, they represent an escape from reality, where one can forget about TPS Reports, Lumberg, and stupid Munday details and live the life of a Marine scout sniper, a superhero, a fat Italian plumber, or even a star NFL quarterback. Gaming often tries to break out of the virtual reality world in an attempt to make your experience as realistic as possible, while still making it fun.  Remember Flight Simulator?  Who doesn’t?  But that’s a bad example, because that game blew.  It was cool for the first thirty seconds, and then 9 out of 10 kids just tried to smash their plane into the Sears Tower; as creepy as that sounds, that’s what we all did.  And no, I’m not a terrorist – I’m just the opposite in fact.  As an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, I decided to start a new “reality check” series on gaming, specifically the warfighting side of things, and what better to start with than something I know so much about: sniper rifles.

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