Birth Year

[pmulcahy11b]

I wasn't born, I was hatched.

[Abbott Shaull]

1969

[Dogger]

Been out of the loop for awhile...so I'm catching up on the topics.

1965 here...and yes...I even still do a little RPGing now and then...me and another old dog player buddy tell the ladies we're having a 'poker night' but instead brake out the game chit instead LOL.

[Muti]

1986!

Year of the (in)famous Chernobyl nuclear disaster

[JimmyRay73]

1973 and not afraid to admit it. First started playing T2K when my cousin got the 1st Edition during the heart of the cold war. I'm still a gamer and I still have some 2nd edition books from the early 90's waiting for a chance to play.

On a side note regarding age: a few months ago one of the cashiers at work looked puzzled when a co-worker made a "dirty old man" crack directed toward me. She said "You're what, 27 or so" I just smiled and told her she was my new favorite.

[TiggerCCW UK]

I'm feeling my age at the minute New term has started at the uni where I manage the bars and this years crop of freshers weren't even born when I started working bars

[Rockwolf66]

1981 here and it seems that the kids who come into work are dumb as mud these days.

[pmulcahy11b]

1981 here and it seems that the kids who come into work are dumb as mud these days.

I don't think our kids are any dumber than kids of any era -- they're just poorly-educated and have less of a work ethic. They also seem, to me, to be more fatalistic than earlier generations -- and they might have a good reason to be so.

[helbent4]

Group,

Born in '68, ran "Kalisz" in summer of '84.

Not too long ago I was in a T2K game set in England (sort of "Going Home" Lite) and mentioned because it was a rear area it wasn't like we were in the "Fulda Gap" or anything... the GM (who was in the US Army) didn't know what that meant.

Tony

[Rockwolf66]

Group,

Born in '68, ran "Kalisz" in summer of '84.

Not too long ago I was in a T2K game set in England (sort of "Going Home" Lite) and mentioned because it was a rear area it wasn't like we were in the "Fulda Gap" or anything... the GM (who was in the US Army) didn't know what that meant.

Tony

Can I have the army guy. I'm currently dealing with a former marine corporal who claims to have been running all over mogadishu, working as Marine Intelligence directly under the NSA. Somehow I don't think that the marines would need to risk trained intelligence people on the ground or FAST members as bodyguards when your average jarhead could do the job described just as well.

[helbent4]

Can I have the army guy. I'm currently dealing with a former marine corporal who claims to have been running all over mogadishu, working as Marine Intelligence directly under the NSA. Somehow I don't think that the marines would need to risk trained intelligence people on the ground or FAST members as bodyguards when your average jarhead could do the job described just as well.

Rockwolf,

Possibly they sent him all around so he'd be out of the hair of the other Marines who were doing real stuff

At any rate the GM was my friend Eric "BigeHauser", who is a good guy and usually sharp as a tack (for a young whipper-snapper). I guess he was just having an off-day.

Tony

[dragoon500ly]

July 1959 here....

"Active Duty since JC was a Corp!"

[Panther Al]

I don't think our kids are any dumber than kids of any era -- they're just poorly-educated and have less of a work ethic. They also seem, to me, to be more fatalistic than earlier generations -- and they might have a good reason to be so.

If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side: Only person in my area interested in playing T2K falls into the "Arrogance matched only by Ignorance" category. Made the mistake of mentioning I was a tanker and he went off on how great it was that we had autoloaders in the abrams. He was convinced that since saw it on the internet my experiences with the M1 was clearly because they was keeping it a secret from us.

Sigh.

What can ya do

[helbent4]

If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side.

Panther,

Dude, like that didn't describe us all at a young age!

Tony

[dragoon500ly]

If not poorly educated they tend to be a little on the know it all side: Only person in my area interested in playing T2K falls into the "Arrogance matched only by Ignorance" category. Made the mistake of mentioning I was a tanker and he went off on how great it was that we had autoloaders in the abrams. He was convinced that since saw it on the internet my experiences with the M1 was clearly because they was keeping it a secret from us.

Sigh.

What can ya do

There was a reporter down in Ft Hood who reported that the M-1 used "ground-breaking radar" as part of its fire-control system. Funny, I still can't find any mention of it in the manuals and I must say that the radar dish is very well camouflaged! Either that or the reporter mistook a Hoffman for the radar....