Daniel Wolfram
The United States army is inviting some of their soldiers to take a four day vacation to play a very popular new video game. But it comes with specific binding obligations.
Usually, having a job and getting to play video games are not mutually exclusive.
When one of your job requirements forces you to live away from your home, it becomes increasingly difficult to enjoy gaming.
Now, there is an offer from down south in the U.S. for soldiers to get the opportunity to play a popular video game for four days without interruption. But it comes with stipulations.
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On November 19, the highly anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) releases, almost 13 years after the last edition was released.
The game is estimated to break every video game record, and so many people across the world are excited to play the new game.
A military unit in Georgia has found a creative way to combine work and play.
Play GTA 6 for four straight days
Soldiers in the Army’s 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion at Fort Stewart in Georgia have been offered the chance to play the new GTA 6 game for four straight days when it releases without any interruptions or work obligations.
The invitation from your employer to play GTA for four days straight almost seems too good to be true. And it is.
If a soldier chooses to say yes to this, they will have to extend their contract beyond their initial service.
The offer is also contingent on GTA actually dropping on that date, since the game has regularly been delayed since fall of 2025.
A larger ploy at play
This idea might have seemed far-fetched when first proposed. However, there are already 20 soldiers out of 130 eligible who have taken this offer, an Army spokesperson confirmed to CBS News.
“The idea was to have a unique incentives program that connects to what Soldiers are interested in,” Lt. Col. Angel Tomko, a spokesperson for the 3rd Infantry Division, said in a statement. “The command team, in conjunction with the career counselor, wanted to get soldiers excited to reenlist.”
Right now, the incentive is only extended to the specific military unit in Georgia, but military officers across the country might see this and copy it. The fifteen percent of eligible soldiers who have accepted the conditions must reenlist for between two and six years.
There is speculation that this offer might become a larger part of a strategy deployed by higher-ups in the U.S. military to meet their recruiting goals. And soldiers are needed, especially considering that America is currently in a military conflict with Iran.
