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Article: New USO Program Uses Xbox Live Innovations to Connect Troops with Families and Friends Back Home; Operation: Live Connections Uses Xbox Live Service to Boost Morale and Reunite Loved Ones.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 4, 2003
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Today at a ceremony in downtown Manhattan, scores of military families will converge at the local U.S. Organizations (USO) Center to be among the first to connect with loved ones serving overseas by playing video games and talking with each other while they play. Changing the way troops reunite with their loved ones back home, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) teamed up with the USO and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox(R) video game system to launch an innovative and groundbreaking program, Operation: Live Connections.
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"Operation: Live Connections is a welcome gift to anyone serving overseas this ...