Look for spelling and grammar. Those who continued to misspell squeaker, even though it has been spelled correctly numerous times in this thread, are probably squeakers.
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Does that make you a squeaker?
Anyway Derk, you have to keep that when a boy's voice hasn't dropped yet (or is still in the process of doing so) its sound can be quite annoying to an adults ears. To make matters even worse, for some reason when it gets transmitted it becomes SUPER DUPER EXTRA MEGA annoying! Don't believe me? Put your name in the VOX channel box and you can hear yourself speak.
And to make matter even MORE worse, the younger crowd tends to like to talk... A LOT. Maybe it's because they are excited and eager, or maybe it's because they just can't wait to get out there and make new friends online. Either case isn't necessarily bad, but when you have a voice that's already grating on peoples' nerves, then constant chatter really isn't making things any better.
The squad I belong to has had a few squeakers in its time, the most recently being probably the most well known (not necessarily in a good way) squeaker on these boards. I won't mention his call sign, but it would be toll-free to call him. Anyway, he is a decent stick... a REAL decent stick with a lot of raw talent, but the poor kid just couldn't keep his mouth shut. We all pretty much got into the habit of typing .vsquelch hisname every time we heard him speak, but I would swear that once every ten minutes he would log off and back on again, because we'd have to do it again! It got so ridiculous that we finally begged our CO to just ask him to leave. And this isn't a small squad!
Really though the reason we had to get rid of him wasn't so much his voice, and it wasn't so much the fact that he talked all the time... oh no.. either one of those qualities could be dealt with. Our biggest issue with him was the fact that when his mouth opened up, all of a sudden he know more than us.. or he knew better than we did. It was his lack of respect that really did him in. Kids often don't know where to draw the line as to that sort of thing. They learn something new and I don't know if it's that they think we forget things.. or they actually do think they know more than us... but regardless they often tend to think they know better and make sure to tell us ALL ABOUT IT! There are usually more tactful ways to get your point across (without offending everybody around you) but kids your age almost never have developed those abilities.
So you want to fly with the BIG BOYS do you? OK here's what you do:
1> KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Unless you see someone on a squaddie's six... don't use your mic... type it out. When your voice drops you can start talking more, but for now keep it on the down-low.
2> NEVER ARGUE AGAINST THE C.O.'S ORDERS. Even if you have a differing opinion, don't tell them about it. Just do what's on the menu and if you don't like it, then go fly by yourself for a bit. You have to earn your spot as a respected member of your squad in order to 'earn' the right to publicly disagree with the C.O. (or just about any other squad member for that matter). This usually happens right after your voice drops. Don't worry, this rule tend to apply to non-squeakers too.
3> DO NOT UNDER *ANY* CIRCUMSTANCES OFFER TO TEACH ANYONE ANYTHING. If they come to you asking for help it is OK, and there is no better honor in the game than to have a squaddie come to you for help.. ok having an enemy ask for your help would be more honorable but we're talking about squad mates here.
4> WE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR A PLAY-BY-PLAY OF YOUR DOGFIGHT AGAINST GRIZZ. Why? Because chances are that we've been through the exact same thing! If it's THAT important then type it out.. or better yet make a play-by-play guide complete with pictures (and maybe movies) and post it on your squad's website... or here.
