Maybe they could recruit pilots among the kids that fly their own radio control airplanes.
Maybe the games we play are just training the AI models and the data gets piped straight to DARPA?
Maybe you have the imagery to real-time photogrammetrically map a real battlefield in to a games representation of targets and drones and let live players on the internet play a "Game", which is really just controlling drones over a real battlefield and rendered as a "game" to the players as just a game content?
You'd just need to geo-fence it well.
