A Veteran (or a retired VET) could be described as playing warbirds and that game on AOL (and cant remember the name of it) waiting on Aces High to come out.
Air Warrior was on more than AOL (spit), though playing it on Genie and spending enough a year to make a right size decent car payment was before I discovered the game (dammit - but not before Muzzy did, apparently). A veteran could well be the proverbial AW player who subscribed to the Bigweek news reader and made fun of people on AOL.
Some would say, unless you had a tail number .... (making me and a lot of folk unqualified.)