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Title: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on February 23, 2010, 02:08:47 PM
I want wish The Musketeers Squadron a well-deserved and happy 20th Anniversary!     :salute    You guys are the best squaddies a person could wish for   :rock   It's been a privilege to be a member of the Muskies, the oldest, continuously-operating virtual squadron in the world.    :old:   Here's to another 20 years, gents!     :cheers:

Now "fly thattaway and kill..."     :airplane:


(Originally posted in the Squadrons thread here: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,284202.msg3596087.html#msg3596087 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,284202.msg3596087.html#msg3596087), but FLS said to post it here in General... so blame him!  :devil    :bolt: )

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: gusman on February 23, 2010, 02:14:29 PM
 :salute Congratulations  :aok  :rock

Cheers,
gus
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Gooss on February 23, 2010, 02:18:03 PM
<S> from the 327th Steel Talons!

HONK!
Gooss
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: waystin2 on February 23, 2010, 02:22:23 PM
A hearty Oink to the Musketeers!  Well done Gentlemen... :salute
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TheRapier on February 23, 2010, 02:40:45 PM
It's a red letter day! I've spent 20 years in MMO air combat and 20 years as a Muskie! I had the great good fortune to encounter --)--BMan-- and --)--Stilletto--- when I first fell into AirWarrior from that point onward there was no looking back. Being in this squad has brought me my job, my livelihood and my fun all in one. I can't even really express it all in a single post

One game genre and one squadron for twenty years from 300 baud modems to DSL, from 4 colors to a kajillion colors, from 640X480 to 5040X1024, from relaxed halftime realism to full realism flight models, from text communications to VOX, from one 15 inch screen to 3 screens, its been one hell of ride and I couldn't hope to find a better bunch of people to do it with. I know these guys and think of them as family, folks that I trust absolutely in the real world. We've shared good times and bad, death and life, and the inevitable changes that time brings, in the virtual world and the real world. I found out I was going to be a father at the AW convention in 1991. Now my son flies with me in AH as part of the Musketeers.

From the hours and hours we've spent in game time and the hours and hours we've spent on the listserv, this IS my band of brothers.

BTW, all this month the Muskies are doing Musketeer Mad Missions, wacky stuff with next to no purpose at all. If you see a bunch of Muskies up, feel free to join us!

:salute The Musketeers!

I hope to be here in another 20 years to celebrate again :old:
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on February 23, 2010, 04:12:46 PM
This is the poem I wrote when I joined the Muskies. The last poem I posted was for HiTech's wedding. He never commented on it but he didn't ban me either.   :D

How can I a Muskie be?
Do you have more than three?
If I pay a token fee,
can I then a Muskie be?
Does it matter if I’m new?
And I don’t know what to do?
I could learn a thing or two,
if you let me join your crew.
Every day I try and try.
I shoot ‘em up but they don’t die.
Maybe if I learned to fly,
I wouldn’t always come up dry.
I don’t want to make a name,
I don’t want Air Warrior fame.
Actually I’m pretty lame,
I just like to play this game.
So can I be a Musketeer?
I’d really like a sword to wear.
No longer would I fly in fear,
with Muskies covering my rear.

Here's to 20 more.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on February 23, 2010, 05:15:03 PM
This is the poem I wrote when I joined the Muskies. The last poem I posted was for HiTech's wedding. He never commented on it but he didn't ban me either.   :D

How can I a Muskie be?
Do you have more than three?
If I pay a token fee,
can I then a Muskie be?
Does it matter if I’m new?
And I don’t know what to do?
I could learn a thing or two,
if you let me join your crew.
Every day I try and try.
I shoot ‘em up but they don’t die.
Maybe if I learned to fly,
I wouldn’t always come up dry.
I don’t want to make a name,
I don’t want Air Warrior fame.
Actually I’m pretty lame,
I just like to play this game.
So can I be a Musketeer?
I’d really like a sword to wear.
No longer would I fly in fear,
with Muskies covering my rear.

Here's to 20 more.  :cheers:

LOL!  I remember posting this poem up on a very early version of our site along with a midi track of ABBA's "Waterloo."   :x  For some reason I always had that danged song running through my head when I'd read the poem... Blast them if it doesn't work in some kooky way... :O  Thankfully I eliminated midis from our site long ago...  :D

A definite iTunes hit, FLS!

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: LLogann on February 23, 2010, 05:45:00 PM
But, but, but..........    :huh

That's 4 years before Al Gore invented the internet............    :lol

  :cheers: Happy 20th Musketeers!!!  :cheers:

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: CptTrips on February 23, 2010, 05:49:21 PM
<S> Musketeers.

Thats a squadron name I've seen since the first day I played an online FS.  Its great to see you guys still going strong.

:airplane:,
Wab

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: capera on February 23, 2010, 05:59:42 PM
20 Years !!!    :O


A big salute from the 99th ASTAG   


(http://www.99thastag.com/salute.gif)

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on February 23, 2010, 06:04:56 PM
Thanks Capera, looking forward to flying with you guys and the AK's in Biplanes again.   :salute
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Masherbrum on February 23, 2010, 06:06:09 PM
 :salute Muskies!   
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: maddafinga on February 23, 2010, 07:27:24 PM
You guys make a dweeb like me feel pretty good!

I couldn't ask for a better bunch of guys to fly with, even if a couple of them do put on ridiculous fake accents. 
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Rino on February 24, 2010, 12:25:52 AM
     Happy Birthday Muskies!  Been flying with and against you guys since DOS.  Good to see
such class acts enduring so long, of course it means that I've been around for almost 20 years
myself  :D  Man, where does the time go?  :O

Phan aka +Rino aka 6004 aka 3488

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TW9 on February 24, 2010, 04:03:26 AM
I want wish The Musketeers Squadron a well-deserved and happy 20th Anniversary!     :salute    You guys are the best squaddies a person could wish for   :rock   It's been a privilege to be a member of the Muskies, the oldest, continuously-operating virtual squadron in the world.    :old:   Here's to another 20 years, gents!     :cheers:

Now "fly thattaway and kill..."     :airplane:


(Originally posted in the Squadrons thread here: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,284202.msg3596087.html#msg3596087 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,284202.msg3596087.html#msg3596087), but FLS said to post it here in General... so blame him!  :devil    :bolt: )

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Please do tell us how flight sims were in dos mode on apples  :old: I think my favorite game in '91 was oregons trail  :aok that and left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, a, b, start  :D

<S> Nice run thus far
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Qrsu on February 24, 2010, 09:26:23 AM
Wow, I didn't realize how deep the history was -- Congratulations on being around nearly as long as I have!

Great bunch of guys (met a few of you), here's to 20 more.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: mechanic on February 24, 2010, 09:34:45 AM
Congratulations Muskies
 :rock
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on February 24, 2010, 02:18:03 PM

Please do tell us how flight sims were in dos mode on apples  :old: I think my favorite game in '91 was oregons trail  :aok that and left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, a, b, start  :D

<S> Nice run thus far


LOL, TW9!   :old:  "Why, when I was your age, we communicated our ACM to each other by Pony Express!  That's why it was so expensive to play back then... have you any idea how much it costs to maintain a stable of horses... and packet loss was unbelievable back then!"  :rofl

Thanks for the great comments, fellas.  Typically our squad just flies around, shoots or misses (in my case, mostly miss) stuff and generally we just mind our own business, but we're in a unique position due to our longevity, so it's a nice to see such positive comments from you guys.   

Here's to 20 more years for the Muskies and 20 more for this great game!  :cheers:

 :salute

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TheRapier on February 24, 2010, 06:09:15 PM
Hey Rino/Phan!

Good to see you're still out there kickin! It's been a long, long time since AW. Looks like we are all gathering here :).

3198 - A Land Uber Alles!! (except when we were in B Land which was a very short time and a long time ago and we ain't talking about it, ok? :) )
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: morfiend on February 24, 2010, 08:08:12 PM
Congrats Muskies!


   :salute
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: maddafinga on February 24, 2010, 08:35:42 PM
Congrats Muskies!


   :salute

Thanks man! 

I didn't really do anything myself though, just sort of hung around and cracked jokes, the time just sort of snuck up on us.  I've only been here for about ten or so of those years however, Some of these guys have been around way longer than me, I'm a relative noob!

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Rino on February 24, 2010, 08:59:41 PM
Quote from: TheRapier link=topic=284233.msg3597593#msg 3597593 date=1267056555
Hey Rino/Phan!

Good to see you're still out there kickin! It's been a long, long time since AW. Looks like we are all gathering here :).

3198 - A Land Uber Alles!! (except when we were in B Land which was a very short time and a long time ago and we ain't talking about it, ok? :) )

     Hey Rap....I'm just glad I'm not the only flying fossil in AH :lol
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Toad on February 24, 2010, 11:47:57 PM
<S> to the Muskies from 5279 (I think it was)

And from one old fossil to another, how you doin' Phan?
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TW9 on February 25, 2010, 05:25:45 AM

LOL, TW9!   :old:  "Why, when I was your age, we communicated our ACM to each other by Pony Express! 


 :old: Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah SEEEEEEeeeeeeee and that's the way it was and we liked it  :old:
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on February 25, 2010, 10:44:27 AM
Here's a video played at the 1992 AW convention.  Some of you old fossils will recognize squad names. What ever happened to "The Damned'?   :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ijdnTLsORo
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Moto24 on February 25, 2010, 04:41:10 PM
  Nice movie, thats the first time I've seen that logo used, do we have a record of that logo didn't see anything on our site?

           -)Moto24---

Here's another vid dedicated to the Musketeers  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLp9UU_Up0&feature=related
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: sparow on February 25, 2010, 06:47:33 PM
Congratulations Musketeers and a big <Salute> from 249 Sqn RAF!

That we may celebrate together your 40th anniversary!

Cheers!
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on February 25, 2010, 10:44:39 PM
 Nice movie, thats the first time I've seen that logo used, do we have a record of that logo didn't see anything on our site?

           -)Moto24---

Here's another vid dedicated to the Musketeers  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLp9UU_Up0&feature=related

Yeah, Moto, I linked up that video onto our site in an embedded player a while back (http://www.musketeers.org/?p=152 (http://www.musketeers.org/?p=152)).   :rock  That logo is very early stuff.  Our current emblem came sometime in 1994, I believe.

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: maddafinga on February 25, 2010, 10:45:24 PM
Congratulations Musketeers and a big <Salute> from 249 Sqn RAF!

That we may celebrate together your 40th anniversary!

Cheers!

Thanks Sparrow!

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TheRapier on February 26, 2010, 10:06:06 PM
Part 1

WARNING - LONG POST!

My wife and definitely my better half wrote a rather unique tribute to the Musketeers and secondarily to this thing we do, the game(s) we play and the relationships we create. This is the view, or can be the view of the AH Widows. I thank her for her patience and I bless the day I met her. May we have an even longer run together.


 
The Musketeers 20th Anniversary
A Love Letter
(c)Sharyn Pierot 2/2010
 
     One night, recently, as my sixteen-year-old son with two of his friends played Aces High together online, my world flipped over and in an instant, changed.  His friends had wanted to try out Aces High, after hearing my son (aka Gaz) talk about it.  They met together in an arena to do some practice warm-ups and try out different planes, bombs and ammunition.

     As I heard him talking to his friends, I stopped the DVD and stilled my hands from their needlework.  I sat listening. 
 
     My son talked more than I’d heard him talk before on the game. Usually silent or monosyllabic, he was now the guide.  I listened as he gave out information about planes and the kinds of ammo they each carried, about which were fast flyers, bombers, and easy to maneuver.  He knew what he was talking about.  He sounded like his father.  He sounded like the one you know as Rapier.

     I am not a gamer of anything.  Monopoly and Uno stretch my nerves, Lego’s confuse my senses.  Yet, I’ve reluctantly joined in, when called upon to be a player, for the sake of my son.  I draw my line at computer and console games, though.  I’ve tried.  My mind can’t hold them.  That is his father’s world.

     I am a mother.  I’m concerned about my son’s present and future.  I am not unique.   Mothers worry about how their sons will fare in the world.  There are good and dangerous turns.  People who help and harm.  Good times and not so good times.  There is economic flux, global warming, unpredictability of life, and surety of death.   War is a constant.

      I want to pack my son a bag with sandwiches, an apple, cookie, and a cool drink, that will sustain him, whatever he happens to run into.  Wherever he goes, my instinct is to hover.  I know I can’t save him.   I cannot protect him from his future.  I can’t even shield him when he walks out the door every day.  I want to tell him what to expect, and prepare him for everything unseen and unknown.  I wish to give him all my good information and have him remember it. 

     I can’t and he won’t.

     Our family does not have a village, community, or even a neighborhood.  There are no grandfathers to tell stories.  No uncles to hang out with.  Whether I like it or not, my son will rip himself from my arms without the assistance of a family tribe to care for him.

     Despite this, a warrior-tribe exists. 

     I married into this squad of The Musketeers, nearly nineteen years ago.  Our son was born into it.  Rapier, in fact, was informed of the pregnancy while at an Air Warrior convention in 1992.  I called him around four a.m. after a very excited positive plus on the pregnancy test.  He was bleary-voiced and just getting into bed.  He had to call later that day to confirm our conversation wasn’t a dream!

     With our computer in the bedroom during those early years, our son and I would nurse in the rocking chair throughout the late night hours, while his dad typed out conversations on his keyboard, and wrestled with an intricate server system that connected him to real people.  As we rocked, I watched as little “T’s” would swirl around the tiny computer screen, totally engrossing my husband’s attention.  He was flying with people all over the world.  It was astounding!

      As a toddler, curled into the middle of our family bed, our son and I snuggled close, while his dad tried out a new microphone-headset system to speak to his squad mates and the other players.  Now voice was added to the clicking of the keys.  A one-sided staccato of phrases, commands and guidance I didn’t understand.  Technology was moving The Musketeers community up close and personal.  Together, our son and I would fall asleep as rendezvous and mission plans were calculated to garner the most points and kills. 

     As a young and growing boy, his father’s voice floated up the stairwell and into his room, soothing him to sleep with lullabies of soliloquy of one-sided conversations, plans, and missions. 

     An invisible team structure, an unseen community of men, was forming a tribe, which life, time, and wives would not break.  My son heard a monologue of The Musketeers, in a tribal-squad of warrior-hunters carrying on the innate and instinctive man-ritual of their personal heroes and the men that came before them.  As he drifted to sleep on weekend nights, his father’s voice was there, speaking with his squad mates-tribesmen, perfecting their skills, forming and maintaining this community, which included and was beyond individual personality.  I imagined my son, as a Native American boy-child, who lying in his tent, picked out his father’s voice and followed it while in conversation with the men’s village council.

     I will admit I was not always happy with the obvious anticipation of my husband going off to his computer.  I felt left out and alone.  I knew for sure, I wasn’t as much fun as the pleasure and experience of the game he had with his buddies.  Rapier was definitely more animated, carefree and jovial, while playing with The Musketeers, than he was with me.  I was jealous.  I silently, and not so silently, seethed. 

 

     I didn’t get it.
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TheRapier on February 26, 2010, 10:06:40 PM
Part 2

 

The Musketeers 20th Anniversary

© Sharyn Pierot 2/2010



     Now, after twenty years of watching, listening and yes, having some woman-emotion-hormone- driven conversations about ‘computer-time’, I ever so slowly begin to understand.

     From Air Warrior to Fighter Ace to Aces High, The Musketeers have stayed together, come, gone, and come back again.  Setting up technology, as it was developed, to work in favor of their community by creating web sites and listservs, as beacons, so all the members of their squad could find their way home. 

 

     So many of you have remained, through all the surprises life has thrown at you.  Saturday night, squad night, sacrosanct.  The Musketeers gathering more than any family I know.  “One for all, and all for one.”

     I cannot understand what it’s like for you.  Being a woman, not a gamer, and not having my own tribe.  From over here, on this side of the computer screen, this is what I know.  You have created a squadron-tribe of men.  You re-create the aggression and expert skill of the hunt, in the form of banding together to bomb, blow up and destroy.  You don’t like to play dirty and won’t play with other squads that do.  It’s okay with you to leave when it gets down-right mean.

     The teamwork and strategy, in the way of men working together to set up the shoot, is integral to your game.  You don’t needlessly go assassinate people and things.  You sometimes allow yourself to be chased, sacrificing the kill to your squad-mate, and sometimes you finish off the kill yourself. 

     You get shot down.  You land.  You go up again.  There is frustration, keyboard pounding, colorful, and unique verbiage, when you don’t land your kill.  But, there you go, up once more.  The game’s the thing.  Like life.

     I hear how you rally with each other.  Through strategy, timing, and that odd thread of humor and merriment, you set yourselves up so the team win is the goal.  At the same time understanding you’re each invested in being the best player you can be.  A synthesis of working together and entirely personal.  Exclusive to your squad, I think.

     I love (is that too girly a word to use here?) how you offer personal and emotional support to each other.  Your kind words of empathy when one gets divorced, a dog dies, a wife is ill, and a parent passes away…  “Oh man, that’s too bad”, “Let me know if there’s anything I can do.”  Then you sing a Monty Python song, poke fun and make parodies of movies you’ve all seen, find a cluster of opponents on another field, and shift away from the difficult emotions, with “let’s go that away!”

     You are familiar with the art of the war you’re in.  The personal squad to squad vengeance's and vying to be the best team.  You watch your enemy; know their moves, tendencies, and ways.  You communicate how they work together and how you will work together to defeat them. 

     You are men of honor and men who go for the kill regardless of who is in their way.  Ruthless men.  Supportive good men, who circle round your squad mates with a kind word or two before you fly off to destroy the enemy.  Men who give serious thought to and mercilessly practice your skill.  You sing together late at night.  Banter and spoof.  All and any humor is practiced with regularity. 


     I don’t pretend to understand how it happens, but I see the effects.  A release from the pressures of work and responsibilities.  A place to hone your skill at something meaningful to you, to be the best you can be, without anyone’s life, family, and mortgage depending on it.  A twenty-year solidarity based on common interest, play, fun, and, importantly, commitment to the team. 
 
     You each have a personality trait of goodness.  “We only accept good men, not necessarily good fighters”, Rapier told me.  If I met you, I would trust you. 

     You’ve built a belonging place.  A squadron of welcome-home without question, even after silence and distance.   It’s your club house, your camp fire. 

     Musketeers, you are amazing men to me!

     I think of The Musketeers military air combat squadron as a Native American hunter tribe.  A way for men to be in community with each other that is not found in our society of corporations or man’s relationships with women, who want it softer at home.

 

     That night, I heard my son with his two buddies.  He encouraged them to try again when they were shot down and discouraged.  Gaz taught them by example, to laugh, when he was mistakenly shot at by one of The Musketeer’s squad mates.

     I heard the tone of his voice and it’s inflections as he guided and supported his friends as they joined together on a mission to hunt, destroy and kill.

     All his life, my son has heard this one-sided conversation between his dad and The Musketeers.  He has heard this twenty-year comradeship build and grow close with serious missions, jokes, and songs.  Now, he himself has begun to enter his own manhood.

     He has heard empathy and sorrow over divorce, death, unemployment, and family illness.  He has listened to how men share words of commiseration that last long enough to be heard, appreciated and acknowledged. 

     He listens to one voice as the squad plans an attack, warns of an incoming group, is supported and takes the role of supporter, during a mission, as well as life crises. 

     He has seen his father be at the top and the bottom of the score board.

     With the exception of a few short years when the game, but not the squad, faded into the background of our life, The Musketeers have been a constant. 

     Now, as he joins your squadron-warrior-tribe, I know, without a doubt, my son has left my arms.  He has gone to join the men on their hunt.  And, I, mother, see he has learned everything he needs for his own journey to manhood. 

     He learned it from his father’s voice and the invisible, yet always present, squadron-tribe of Musketeers, who have been teaching him all his life.

     Each of you has contributed a piece of yourselves to the man my boy is becoming.  You have been, and continue to be, the words of the lullaby and bedtime story he falls asleep to.

Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on February 27, 2010, 01:10:34 PM
Thank you Sharyn. Now I feel special.   :D
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Zoney on February 27, 2010, 02:56:04 PM
It's a red letter day! I've spent 20 years in MMO air combat and 20 years as a Muskie! I had the great good fortune to encounter --)--BMan-- and --)--Stilletto--- when I first fell into AirWarrior from that point onward there was no looking back. Being in this squad has brought me my job, my livelihood and my fun all in one. I can't even really express it all in a single post

One game genre and one squadron for twenty years from 300 baud modems to DSL, from 4 colors to a kajillion colors, from 640X480 to 5040X1024, from relaxed halftime realism to full realism flight models, from text communications to VOX, from one 15 inch screen to 3 screens, its been one hell of ride and I couldn't hope to find a better bunch of people to do it with. I know these guys and think of them as family, folks that I trust absolutely in the real world. We've shared good times and bad, death and life, and the inevitable changes that time brings, in the virtual world and the real world. I found out I was going to be a father at the AW convention in 1991. Now my son flies with me in AH as part of the Musketeers.

From the hours and hours we've spent in game time and the hours and hours we've spent on the listserv, this IS my band of brothers.

BTW, all this month the Muskies are doing Musketeer Mad Missions, wacky stuff with next to no purpose at all. If you see a bunch of Muskies up, feel free to join us!

:salute The Musketeers!

I hope to be here in another 20 years to celebrate again :old:

Nice post sir <S> very well done.  <S> the Muskrats :)
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: AAJagerX on February 27, 2010, 05:01:52 PM

Please do tell us how flight sims were in dos mode on apples  :old: I think my favorite game in '91 was oregons trail  :aok that and left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, a, b, start  :D

<S> Nice run thus far

LOL, someone broke out the Contra cheat! I thought it was left, right, left, right, up down, up, down,  B, A, select, start.

 :salute Muskies

 Can you imagine what the game would be like in another 20 yrs?
AAJagerX
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on February 27, 2010, 06:16:57 PM
LOL, someone broke out the Contra cheat! I thought it was left, right, left, right, up down, up, down,  B, A, select, start.

 :salute Muskies

 Can you imagine what the game would be like in another 20 yrs?
AAJagerX

Thanks Jager, we hope to find out.  :D   :salute
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: uptown on February 27, 2010, 07:33:36 PM
Congrats on the 20 yrs.! If I had only started a squad in Duck Hunt.........
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: ClaymoreMuskies on February 27, 2010, 10:16:08 PM
One day in 1986 sitting in front of a DEC MicroVAX I took off from my vector runway into the virtual skies against another pilot. I fired my p38's guns into virtual air and heard a curse from down the hallway as my coworker felt my lead. In 1992 I ventured onto genie credit card in hand. With $6.00 per hour charge it was short lived but glorious! I took to the air on a 386 with vga and approached a furball with T's marking the outside of a 3"x3" window. Bearing down on the unsuspecting pilots in my spitfire I felt in a different time and place.

I returned to AirWarrior on AOL in 1995 as CMDR in the AirWarrior WW1 Arena. Changing my name to Claymore I was inducted into the RR WW1 Musketeers. My friends Crush, Ninja, Blorb, Symo, Fly, Stomper and others were as real a friends as a guy could ask for and still are all these years later. We lost a friend that year, we saw children born to our families. We talked as we flew and shared. Hell we even ate, drank and flew!

Months later flying with Rapier and Dragon in FR Pacific I joined my brothers late at night enjoying the "speech". 14 years as a Musketeer, I moved across the country to join my Muskie brother --)-SON-- and work for him in Real life. I met friends and my life changed for the better from playing a game. I made lifelong friends, in squad and out of squad. I have been at the top and the bottom of the scoreboard and loved every "blooddragon" moment! As the Musketeers enter our 20th year in flight I extend a welcome to our new 2nd generation members and know they will love what we are as much as I have all these years!

Thank you all for the congrats :)


+---{--Claymore----
All for One and One for All!
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on March 01, 2010, 07:41:16 PM
Thank you all for the congrats :)

+---{--Claymore----
All for One and One for All!

Sorry to hear about the computer problems, Clay; sorry you missed this past weekend's stuff.  Check your email for some of the film from this weekend's Muskie Secret Rites of Initiation, though.   :O  This time, we added a new bit to the Rites; here's an example (done by trained stuntmen for our orientation seminar)   :neener::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z829cL9spho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z829cL9spho)   :huh

We did sterilize the tools first, of course...    :devil

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TequilaChaser on March 02, 2010, 02:17:00 AM
Congrats on the 20 year Anniversary Muskies


What ever happened to "The Damned'?   :D

whatever do you mean FLS <grin>, We are still here  :aok, I'm one of the younger spring chickens though I am closing on my 12th year as being "Damned"  :salute  :cheers:
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: 4deck on March 02, 2010, 08:48:32 AM
Congradulations guys.
Must be alot of broken joysticks out there.

Cheers
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: FLS on March 02, 2010, 09:39:58 AM
LOL 4deck, I snapped off a CH fighterstick when I was younger and more excitable.  :joystick: :
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Wraith_TMS on March 02, 2010, 12:38:58 PM
Congrats on the 20 year Anniversary Muskies

whatever do you mean FLS <grin>, We are still here  :aok, I'm one of the younger spring chickens though I am closing on my 12th year as being "Damned"  :salute  :cheers:

TC, I think this is where the BBS needs a :troll emoticon.  :lol  Or in FLS's case, a :drolltroll  moti.   :rofl 

I for one am "damned" (sorry... couldn't resist...   :bolt:) glad to know The Damned are still out there, kicking pattootie as they always have and retaining their class all the while.  :salute

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Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: TheRapier on March 03, 2010, 11:20:29 PM
Hey TC!

I don't know that you can still qualify as a spring chicken in anyone's book any more  :lol

Of course neither can I. . . but I'm not near as old as I'm gonna be.  :old:

Its good to have such a group of old codgers to hang out with  :old: :old: :old: :old: :old: :old: :old: :old: <I'm the one on the end>
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: Hajo on March 03, 2010, 11:55:53 PM
Congrats Musketeers!  I wish you many more!
Title: Re: Happy 20th Anniversary, Muskies! --[-------
Post by: mutha on March 06, 2010, 11:11:38 AM
A very late Happy Anniversary to my fellow Muskies.  Rap, great story from the wife!

Here's to 20 more years of ACM mayhem!

A-land rules!

Mutha Teresa
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