Why So Many Veterans Are Turning to Gaming After Service

For many veterans, the end of military service doesn’t mean the end of missions. Instead of booting up for patrols, we’re booting up consoles and PCs. Gaming has become a powerful outlet for post-service life. It’s more than just fun—it’s connection, decompression, and camaraderie, all wrapped in pixels and squad chats.

From tactical simulators like Escape from Tarkov to the classic military grind in Call of Duty, vets are finding a second fireteam online. The structure, strategy, and shared language—"operators," "loadouts," "frag out"—all feel like home.

Gaming gives us the fireteam without the flak. And in a world where it's hard to explain what we've been through, games let us just be—no explanations needed.

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