In my travels I have recently come across more than a couple ex-military guys who game.
I don't have any military experience but I do have three guys in my current game who are. I just wanted to give a salute to all of you in the military and invite you to post a reply if you are currently in the military or are ex-military.
There was a fairly lengthy thread on this topic, but that's before the boards were reorganized (e.g. "Gamer Life" didn't exist before) and now I can't find it...
EDIT: Here's one for officers:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/gaming/gamerLife/archives/mi litaryOfficersWhoGame
8 years active Army, 3 years Texas National Guard. You are welcome, Veector.
8 years active duty in the Air Force, and I separated in 1998.
7 years active duty USCG ('87-'94).
CJ
Gah! I am surrounded by zoomies and squid. :)
Gah! I am surrounded by zoomies and squid. :)
I got your back. :) Six years active duty Army. Out in 1993.
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Going on 14 years active Navy (Surface Warfare Officer), 1995 to present
Thanks to you, too, Veector. It's nice to be appreciated.
And, as the guy who started the "Military Officers Who Game" thread, I should say that the thread is definitely open to folks other than officers. While I'd love to make more connections with officers who game, I'm interested in hearing from any fellow warfighters who want to share their experiences.
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I served 20 years, 9 months, 28 days of Active Duty, U.S. Army, but who's counting; retired Sergeant First Class; 1970-1991. I am not a Vietnam Veteran but I am a Vietnam Era Veteran. You're welcome Veector.
Brand new E3 in US Army! Work in Air Defense and am about to go on my first tour in the middle east in 4 days!
active duty 92-96 in the army.
SCOUTS OUT!!!
22 years. Active duty Army, tradition army national guard, AGR.
retired now.
gamer for life
get together, role dice, drink beer.
Brand new E3 in US Army! Work in Air Defense and am about to go on my first tour in the middle east in 4 days!
Good luck. Watch your six. Come home in one piece.
USMC
Brand new E3 in US Army! Work in Air Defense and am about to go on my first tour in the middle east in 4 days!Good luck. Watch your six. Come home in one piece.
Roger that! Thanks for the support, CourtFool.
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Well I did my time in the Air Force as a 3P0X1, Security Police for all you grunts out there. We are the closest thing the Air Force has to infantry. We had quite a few gamers in my squadren. During exercises we would sit around the AFT bunker playing Dark Sun and Rifts. For some reason Twilight 2000 never took off though.And yes CF, we did attempt to play Hero System.
8 years in USN Submarine Fleet. Have been in Tennessee Army National Guard for 9, and just recently completed my 2nd tour in Iraq.
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In my travels I have recently come across more than a couple ex-military guys who game.
I don't have any military experience but I do have three guys in my current game who are. I just wanted to give a salute to all of you in the military and invite you to post a reply if you are currently in the military or are ex-military.
I served in the USMC for 4 years and two of my players that I DM are also marines that served with me... There are plenty of military men (and women) who play.
Gunny
Active duty Air Traffic Controller, USN. Haven't decided if I'm gonna be a lifer or not...
AD AF coming up on 7 years, and here's to the next 13 or so...
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Don't worry, this 11B/M has you covered.
11B/M...Infantry. Kinda like a scout but not sneaky and only half as crazy. 11b is the kinda of stuff we do when we are off the Bradley and 11M is what we do on it...thing is you all do it wrong...11 people in the back? Too many. I like having my two jokers in the back only to worry about. "Frick" and "Frack" get in enough trouble...I don't need more of them back there.
But yeah Iron Sentinel...come sit at with me at Fiddler's Green. You can visit and drink but unless you have your spurs and a saber keen's you can't stay must turn around after a round at the tables near Fiddler's Green.
For those who are going "what is he talking about" check out this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler's_Green
or here
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiFIDGREN2;ttFIDGREN2.html
Nice to see some high speed, low trajectory projectile shields out there.
Yep; am ex Army myself; had a great gaming group no matter what post I was at; you pretty much could go to any rec center and there would be peeps rpg ing something.
US Army. 3 years the first hitch, 6 months the second [Desert Storm vet - IRR recall]
I plan on staying on at fiddler's green, and empty my canteen.
and watch the engineers, artillery, and infantry march on by.
ive got my spurs, unfortunatly, they didnt make it out of iraq.
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ive got my spurs, unfortunatly, they didnt make it out of iraq.
Ahh you served with a cav unit? Interesting. Which one? Spur tradition has variation from post to post, unit to unit. I am curious to see what your experience was.
"Combat Spurs" are common among units. Go to war with the Cav even if you are an engineer, artillery, MP or whatever that isn't Cav and you can get "Combat Spurs". As to them being "gold spurs" or a different design then what that particular unit considers standard varies.
Anyhow I got mine through the usual peace time process of electing to be tested (*cough*hazing*cough*) back in ye olden times of the nineteen hundred and nineties. Back before all this digitized camo, digitized communications with their mouse clicks and digital battlefield stuff. We fought the old fashion way...with rocks and we darn tootin liked it.
LOL...just kidding...it wasn't *THAT* primative. But not as high tech as now. I was hoping in my time in they'd go that route. I think I would have liked it better that way...not that I didn't like it.
What? Isn't that about how many Marines can read? ;p
Heh. Our class leader at language school (DLI) was a Marine captain...former enlisted I think. He could read fine BUT he was highly opposed to multisyllabic words. Two was okay. You'd better have a damn good reason for three. Four and up was asking for pull-ups or a run around the quad.
He was a good guy. I spent my time in around officers and enlisted from all four branches (not to mention a lot of foreign troops) and he probably topped my "respect list".
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What? Isn't that about how many Marines can read? ;p
Countrary to popular belief, the vast majority of Marines are highly intelligent. It takes superior brainpower to figure out how to kill a man 3,762 ways using only a toothpick or an empty MRE bag. 3,763 ways if we count dental floss.
Gunny - once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi
Proud to have served.
... at language school (DLI) ...What language?
Chinese Mandarin. 88-89. 2+/2+/2. Amazingly I haven't lost it all. I've been struggling through the Harry Potter series (with a dictionary, believe me) off and on for a while now.
@Gunny: Man. I should have had him show me that trick with the MRE bag. I thought the *contents* were deadly...never considered the bag.
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@Gunny: Man. I should have had him show me that trick with the MRE bag. I thought the *contents* were deadly...never considered the bag.
Also the peanut butter can be used to patch bullet holes. Dry powder creamer can be used as a component improvised explosive and lastly...my favorite...the MRE heater and tabasco sauce makes schweet, sweet improvised CS gas. IT WILL clear out a TOC.
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Chinese Mandarin. 88-89. 2+/2+/2. Amazingly I haven't lost it all. I've been struggling through the Harry Potter series (with a dictionary, believe me) off and on for a while now.... at language school (DLI) ...What language?
Arabic. 96-98. 2/2/2. I haven't lost it all, but 'struggling' would be a generous term to describe me reading book in Arabic (even with the dictionary).
Also the peanut butter can be used to patch bullet holes. Dry powder creamer can be used as a component improvised explosive and lastly...my favorite...the MRE heater and tabasco sauce makes schweet, sweet improvised CS gas. IT WILL clear out a TOC.
I always thought that dehydrated fruit sponge would be a fairly effective weapon. Slip it into the enemy's water supply and watch the fun. Or, if you can catch one sleeping...no, it's too horrible to contemplate...
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Arabic. 96-98. 2/2/2. I haven't lost it all, but 'struggling' would be a generous term to describe me reading book in Arabic (even with the dictionary).Chinese Mandarin. 88-89. 2+/2+/2. Amazingly I haven't lost it all. I've been struggling through the Harry Potter series (with a dictionary, believe me) off and on for a while now.... at language school (DLI) ...What language?
Was Arabic as well..in fact I was an instructor at Goodfellow from 1987-1992...you probably took the course on Sentinal Bright I designed ;)
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What? Isn't that about how many Marines can read? ;pCountrary to popular belief, the vast majority of Marines are highly intelligent. It takes superior brainpower to figure out how to kill a man 3,762 ways using only a toothpick or an empty MRE bag. 3,763 ways if we count dental floss.
Gunny - once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi
Proud to have served.
Just yanking your chain Gunny. I was in the Air Force, and my dad was career Navy, so I come from a long tradition of interservice rivalries. I also have some really good friends who are Marines. Speaking of rivalries thogh, I went the ABGD with a guy who's dad disowned him when he joined the Air Force instead of joining the Corp.
Was Arabic as well..in fact I was an instructor at Goodfellow from 1987-1992...you probably took the course on Sentinal Bright I designed ;)
Goodfellow...shivers. I was a 98C but a bunch of Golfs from my language class went through school when you were teaching. Was the G course language-specific? For that matter, where the heck were the G classes? "Secret Square"? Seems like I hardly ever saw any of the Gs when I was there.
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