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The Call of Duty Endowment is marking Remembrance Day and its 17th anniversary by encouraging Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone players to pick up its Valor Pack, with all of Activision's net proceeds going towards helping veterans find jobs.
The Call of Duty Endowment Valor Pack - which has been available since Modern Warfare 4 launched on 23rd October - was designed by the Endowment and Infinity Ward with US Marine Corps veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter in mind.
The items include a melee weapon blueprint inscribed with "Worth Fighting For", plus items called Relentless and Still Standing.
According to the Call of Duty blog, 100 percent of Activision's net proceeds from the pack (after VAT and sales tax) go to the Endowment.
To mark Remembrance Day, players who owned it and launched either game before 6pm GMT on 12th November also received double XP tokens and a DMZ survival kit.
"Veterans bring incredible skills into the workplace after military service," said Carpenter.
The Endowment, which supports veterans in the UK as well as the US, says it has now helped place more than 180,000 into "high-quality jobs", and wants to reach 200,000 by 2030.
Other partners are also raising money, with Pilot's round-up campaign raising more than £4.7 million ($6 million) for the Endowment since 2019. Polaris will also donate around £19,500 ($25,000) if players collectively complete 5 million rides in its DAGOR vehicle across Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone by 25th November.
It comes two weeks after Activision apologised to bereaved families of the Itaewon crowd crush victims and confirmed it would remove real footage of the tragedy from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Players discovered that the game's opening cinematic uses short news clips to depict fictional civilian casualties during a North Korean invasion of South Korea. Those clips have since been found to include archive footage from the 2022 Itaewon disaster, in which around 160 people died.
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