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On 19AUG09 I wrote to someone on YouTube (CeeJ64 aka Chief Warrant Officer 5 Johnson, Courtney C, Ret) after viewing one of their videos:
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" Subject: 75th
Greets - Snooping around, thinking about taking on BF2 choppers, I found your video ... finest kinda shiet!
FYI: 75thrangers.us shows "Account Suspended".
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Over the next few days I trolled to find out what kind of attack was happening, and set the hook with this:
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" Out of BF2 hunh ... kinda sad to hear it ... such a basically good game.
You into CoD now?
I'm
kinda orphaned ... I luv strategy / tactic ... played PanzerGeneral BEM
for years ... 1st person shooter is wey fun, but I get tired of it
after a while, too hyper.
I wish there was a real strategy MPOG somewhere."
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So I joined the 75thR's site on the 29th and heh by 30AUG09 it was me on the hook!
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" K, got confirmation email from col-patterson@75thr.us ... username Pranger. cheers.
BTW: "Battlefield 2 patch 1.5 coming Tuesday September 1st!" ... works for me!
I
don't see getting set up for AA anytime real soon; look forward to
whatever training I can get. Maybe even more: would like to help with
logistics/comms."
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And in the next coupla days ... well, the next day even: " p.s.2 reading 75thR docs ... bit by bit ..."
Yaa ... enlisted the 5th, and Affirmation a week later. *whooooosh!* |
When
I am not online I'm either asleep or deathly ill; I've been online one
way or another since 1978 ... or '72 ... or '68, depending how you date
things. (Most text messaging and cell phone calls are BS. EMail is
practically real-time, IRC is real-time, Vent and TS and Skype are
real-time, but ADHD => texting ... mental twitching.)
The
trade I was in RegForce was originally called "Radioman Special", and
if you ponder that for a mo' or two you'll figure out what we were up
to. (Yaa, that, all of it, the whole 9 yards.) So at the
end of the day I can babysit your NORAD/SAC microwave/troposcatter
system, or engineer a recording of your symphony orchestra, or run CBC
Radio's Master Control Room, or write MIL-SPEC tech_docs for your
R&D project ... I can even hump a radio and whip up an extra
antenna from whatever's handy. "Technical communicator" kinda captures
it. *shrug*
My name is Bernard Tremblay. (If you say "Burn-ard" or "Burn-uhrd, I won't know you're talking to me. So I just go by "Ben".)
I was born 5MAY54, was married, and raised 5 kids. (4 girls, then heh tail-end charlie is my son. *beam*)
My whole working life has been about
communications of one sort or another ... as a technical documents
specialist, CMC operative, or coordination tables, chairs, and coffee.
From 49th LER (4PPCLI Reserves) through ComRsch291 (via CFB Cornwallis 7208, CFS Gloucester, CFB/CFSCEE Kingston and finally CFS Gander) to folk fests and PTA bake sales. *G*
I have known about AA2 for something like 2 weeks, and about the 75th Rangers for something like a week less than that.
"Realistic" is what I've heard said to describe this ... and I agree, but maybe meaning something else. No, meaning something more: IRL doesn't stop when we go online.
Here, with the warriors' ethos and the Rangers' Creed, maybe we can
know that when we do what we do it's always real; it's never other than
real; this is reality.
Whooooaah!
written in the 2nd week of September, 2009, prior to graduation from RIP #201.
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