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Gladiator
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posted 01-07-2001 10:52 AM
    
As DeskJet pinted out, I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Gladiator, that is also the name use for Q3. Anthrax, no I am not a newbie (get a grip) I've been playing Q3 for as long as it's been out. I live in Montreal, Quebec, where I just finished school in computer programming (I may be moving to Nova Scotia to work as a junior programmer for Michelin). I spent four years in the Army (Made corporal by age 19). I was a machine gunner in an infantry platoon. Apparently four years of being wet, cold, and exhausted is enough to give you rheumatoid arthritis... so I went back to school in programming. Now that I feel crippled everytime it gets cold out, I tend to stay inside and play Quake3.
Posts: 99 | From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Registered: Jan 2001 | IP: Logged
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Gladiator
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posted 01-08-2001 01:36 AM
I also had the perfect job. I was 2nd in command of an infantry section. I was paid to play with explosives and guns, and do it while living in the woods. I am qualified on practically every weapon (small arms, medium, and heavy weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft). Often when we go on a training excersize, we fire off several thousand dollars of ammunition at a time (my all time record is over $30,000 for one excersize... but that included 1 $24,000 Eryx Missile...) We got to fly in helicopters for the long trips, and marched everywhere else. I was often given command of my section on patrol so I got to make the decisions in the bush(often saving us hours of walking). I am Arctic Qualified, meaning it takes a little longer for my balls to freeze than the average person... I've been yelled at, shot at, gassed, close to blown up, and dropped into freezing rivers. I loved my job. It's the hardest thing I've ever done, and the thing that makes me the most proud. I miss it, kinda starting to hate sitting in front of a computer all the time now. If you ever get a chance, give it a try, best thing you'll ever do... (it's not like the movies, what they show is all Hollywood bullshit. It is however much harder than you can possibly be prepared for, it's a totally different culture from the world I'm living in now.) Jesus, now I'm depressed...
Posts: 99 | From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Registered: Jan 2001 | IP: Logged
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PrincessGummy
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posted 01-08-2001 08:37 PM
hi. welcome to the boards! my name is kalie!
i'm one of the few wimmins on this board.
i won the "nicest ass" award for the annual lounge awards 200  i like PAINTBALLING, singing, playing my flute and piccolo, golfing (althoug i suck), hockey, blading, ice skating, shopping, flirting with snag, drama, sketching, painting, photography, football (mostly the yummay pants) and writing poetry.
that's all ya need to know...i've given you my life story already i could go on about recent things, but, that's not important
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Lindi
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posted 01-09-2001 06:05 AM
Windows based console with PC components, Manufactured by Microsoft -> hardware/software conflicts here I come?In reference to the link Gladiator posted. ------------------
Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes. - If you can read this, you're overeducated. [This message has been edited by Lindi (edited 01-09-2001).]
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Gladiator
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posted 01-10-2001 10:51 AM
First of all, non-comm member ranks start at private, and go to Cheif Warrant Officer (where even Officers won't give you any orders...) Officers go from 2nd Lieutenant to General. NO, you do not have to enlist to become an officer, you can go straight into it(I don't know what other countries call it, but I've never heard it called enlisted before.) Second, there is no difference in the coolness factor of jobs, actually, your better off becoming one of the Men if you don't want to spend 85% of your carreer behind a desk pushing pencils. Officers are called officers because they spend an enormous amount of time behind a desk, no matter what field of the military they're in. Snag, pilots spend about 1% of their carrer actually flying (again, all paperwork and classes). Air-Nav (do you realize the suck factor of spending your carrer looking at a map? Navigation as a career isn't too impressive, no matter what your sitting in, including the armoured where you are driving your own coffin...) Besides, you won't look so cool when I rip your plane apart with my .50caliber machine gun... lol[This message has been edited by Gladiator (edited 01-10-2001).]
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