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Video game created in the Valley creates controversy

A video game simulation used to recruit future soldiers and made in Huntsville is the subject of a protest in the upper midwest.

In July of last year, WAFF 48 news got an up-close look at America's Army.

A company on Redstone Arsenal makes the game and the Army takes it to events all over the country like Air Shows and NASCAR races.

This Saturday, America's Army is set to roll into the Air Show at Duluth, Minnesota.

But some people there think the combat simulator is a little too real.

Michele Naar-Obed a Loaves and Fishes volunteer said, "I'm very upset over this. I think this is just insane that they would use this kind of venue to train our youth to kill people."

However SFC John Haymond of the U.S. Army said, "it's kind of curious that some people would object to a virtual army experience game when the central draw to the Duluth Air Show is the Blue Angels who are flying F-18 Super Hornet strike aircraft, which last time I checked, was a military weapon."

Recruiting Sargeant Haymond adds no one under 17 is allowed into the simulator.

Airshow officials say an area will be set-up on site for protesters.