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Offline mbailey

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2015, 03:50:49 PM »
WTG Muskies  :aok  Congratulations guys, a better lot of gentlemen you will never find........heres to 24 more  :cheers:
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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2015, 03:53:19 PM »
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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2015, 05:12:12 PM »
Congratulations muskies, the squad of honorable fun-loving guys...
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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2015, 05:30:42 PM »

Kanth went to the Muskies right about the same time I joined the Eagles then became Damned....Rapier and Dragon use to whip Kanth and my rear ends during late night/early mornings in AW FR arena....... both Muskies and Damned trained me...

TC

There's a name I haven't seen in a while. Kanth got me into the Muskies after she joined.  Good times.


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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2015, 06:54:04 PM »
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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2015, 08:40:03 PM »
One of the Musketeers introduced me to AH back in '01 :salute

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2015, 09:16:50 PM »
One of the Musketeers introduced me to AH back in '01


According to Grits, the Gunfighters (the AvA squad) goes back to the 1980s.  Wish I'd saved his account, Pyro was in the squad back in AW days.

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2015, 10:58:18 PM »
Shhh!  Quiet everyone!
Some old men are speaking!
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(don't ya wish SOMEONE would really MEAN that someday?)

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2015, 11:45:33 PM »
24 years as a operational squadron!  :old:

FB$ only a couple years behind ya fellow old farts!  :salute

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2015, 11:48:55 PM »
24 years as a operational squadron!  :old:

FB$ only a couple years behind ya fellow old farts!  :salute


Thanks!  We are a squad of old friends, men I would never have come across in my life that I've since met for meals, drinks and countless flights in virtual skies.  Amazing what a game can do.

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2015, 12:14:36 AM »
 :salute
They're casting their bait over there, see?

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2015, 05:59:05 AM »
Thanks All. It's been a long and winding ro-ad; In the game and in life. I'm fortunate to have had the privilege to share it with some folks I consider great friends, friends I have never met in the flesh but hope to do some day before my number comes up.

Perhaps, even in death, if my soul is lucky enough to climb upward, St. Peter greet me kindly and usher me into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN. I wouldn't be surprised if he has seen one or two muskies already. Not inside the gate but outside, loitering around at max operational ceiling in P51-D models, waiting to dive back down into the MA and aggravate the Cz and B... I mean rooks and bishops.

And thank you to all in Aces High and Air Warrior that helped bring some joy into my rather mundane life. You've been a big part of it regardless if you know it or not.

If you see a low and wallowing Yak9-T, give him a break and fly into his gunsites for old times sake. I've forgotten what it feels like to get a kill!

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2015, 11:52:58 AM »
Thanks Crabby! Thanks All! 0===[@=======-

The Muskies have been continuously operating in some game for all that time. Airwarrior, Fighter Ace, and Aces High. It seems both longer and shorter than it is. Good to see so many of the old farts still kicking around from those days when AW used turn credit cards to ashes at 300 baud :). TC its always been a pleasure flying in your airspace!

The Muskies have been a constant, a band of brothers that some of whom I've never met in the flesh but know, really know, because of how they are under pressure. People outside wouldn't get the pressure of a "game". They don't understand the "hunting group" dynamics of folks relying on each other to do the right thing at the right time.

I'm a one and done kinda guy. One handle, one squad, for nearly a quarter century. Three different games in 3 different eras. Looking back you have the perspective of time. You remember a lot and you forget a lot. What you do remember is the good ones, the good folks, the good fights. That's probably what it should be.

To the good ones!

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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2015, 12:12:56 PM »
Hey let's not forget Warbirds and Dawn of Aces!   :D 


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Re: Happy Anniversary To The Muskies!
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2015, 02:46:32 PM »
24 years as a operational squadron!  :old:

FB$ only a couple years behind ya fellow old farts!  :salute

Thanks Crabby and all the rest!   :salute  The Muskies were founded on Feb. 23rd, 1990, which means we're actually coming up on our 25th Anniversary in about 3 weeks, unless my abacus is wrong.   :old:

What keeps a squad alive so long?  Well... fiber... lots of fiber...  :D  :aok   Seriously though, I'll sign off with a link to a page on our site that was written for our 20th anniversary by Rapier's wife.  It sums up what has been my privilege to be a part of for over twenty years: http://www.musketeers.org/?p=186.

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