WILL Featured on ABC 27 News June 19, 2009
This week ABC 27 News (Harrisburg, PA) had a feature on WILL Interactive’s current production at Fort Indiantown Gap:
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Military Ethics Training Videos Being Filmed at Fort Indiantown Gap
The New Patriot News is running a story about WILL’s current production, a new interactive movie for the U.S. Army that focuses on ethical decision making: A soldier in Iraq is getting valuable intelligence information from a clan leader with whom he has cultivated a relationship, when he hears screams in the leader’s enclave that [...]
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USARPAC Suicide Prevention goes “Beyond the Front” March 19, 2009
Army.mil has posted a story detailing the US Army’s use of Beyond the Front in suicide prevention training: Referring to the title of the video, Jones said, “The ‘front’ stands for the battlefield, but ‘ front’ also stands for the face that a Soldier may put on to disguise the stress they are dealing with.” [...]
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After Rough Year, Army Goes Interactive Against suicide March 5, 2009
The Virginian-Pilot is running a story about the US Army’s use of Beyond the Front to train Soldiers in suicide prevention: Local Army installations haven’t experienced an increase – since 2003, two soldiers stationed at either Fort Eustis in Newport News or Fort Story in Virginia Beach have taken their own lives. None have killed [...]
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Training Begins to Change Culture of Not Seeking Help February 20, 2009
The Times Herald-Record is running a story about the US Army’s effort to battle the current spike in Soldier Suicide, and how WILL’s latest product, Beyond the Front is playing a major role: “It wasn’t an after-school special,” said Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Correll, 35, a member of the Bear Mountain Recruiting Company in Middletown. [...]
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Beyond the Front on Military.com February 17, 2009
Military.com has picked up Hugh Lessig’s story on the Army’s stand-down for Suicide Prevention training, and the use of WILL’s recent product Beyond the Front. The simulated exercise isn’t a cure-all for a fighting force stretched thin, but it will let soldiers practice making tough decisions, said Sharon Sloane, president and CEO of WILL Interactive, [...]
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Army Will Use Video to Tackle Suicides February 15, 2009
Beyond the Front was featured again over the weekend, this time in the Daily Press: His name is Spc. Kyle Norton, and his life is falling apart. Norton is deployed in the Middle East. His wife-to-be has just ended their relationship via e-mail. He has money problems. A bad country-and-western song doesn’t even begin to [...]
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Beyond the Front Featured on CBS News February 14, 2009
CBS News ran a story about the US Army Stand Down for training in suicide prevention. Beyond the Front, a VEILS® Interactive movie recently completed for the Army was featured as one of the tools that will be used to combat this growing problem. You can view the video here. Watch CBS Videos Online
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Games That Deal With the Emotions of War October 15, 2008
Edge Online is running an article by WILL’s own Sharon Sloane (President & CEO) which discusses how the difficult emotional issues that Soldiers face can be addressed by reality-based simulations, or ‘serious games’. Specialist Kyle Norton is a 19-year old soldier two months into his first deployment in Iraq. Already lonely for his fiancée, Anne, [...]
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Army’s Life-or-Death Drama – Washington Post October 8, 2008
The Washington Post is running a feature on Beyond the Front, one of our latest programs developed with the US Army, which is designed to train soldiers on Suicide Prevention. Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool — an interactive video to be mandatory [...]
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