For the first time in US history, the entire US air transport system shut down. On Monday, US citizens went to sleep with visions of endless Intel greenfield sites dancing in their heads; on Tuesday, they woke up inside the shell-shocked ruins of Half Life’s Black Mesa Research Facility.1

This paper will describe the pedagogical and technological challenges and unique processes that translated Squad level command doctrine to a commercial game interface and a cost-effective, universally-accessible computational medium.