German army seeks out gamers in hunt for computer-savvy recruits

Source: sg.news.yahoo.com --- Friday, August 23, 2019
With a stand boasting a helicopter simulator and ultra-fast games, the Bundeswehr, Germany's army, has turned to the GamesCom fair in its bid to recruit computer-savvy potential soldiers. The call to arms is clear under a "Centre of Cyber Operations" sign with a keyboard-inspired logo in the colours of the German flag -- "the Cyber-force of the Bundeswehr". "We are looking for people who specialise in information technology -- those with a taste for computers are knocking at the right door," Nils Feldhoff, an army communications officer, told AFP. ...

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