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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cassandra" data-source="post: 4551711" data-attributes="member: 18157">From an Air Force veteran:I am a veteran of the Air Force. I served during the late 1980s, in a time a turmoil, and great change around the world. I served in a communications squadron on a SAC bomber base. We were the ones who received the classified and unclassified messages sent to the base. Some of the messages we received were test messages that tested the system that would scramble the bombers with their nuclear payloads.It was a high stress job, and many of us used all sorts of off duty activities to keep our minds off the job. Some of us were gamers. I played many a game of D&D, Traveller, DragonQuest, and Bushido as a way of escaping from my job, from the homesickness, and the day to day worries of the military.From another Air Force veteran:I served in the Air Force from 1990 - 1998 and served in Desert Storm. I've been playing D&D since I was 11 (the old blue then red basic rules) and so have had the joys of experiencing almost all the different versions of D&D. I haven't really found a system I don't like (or a genre) but D&D has always been my favorite! From an Army veteran:I enlisted in the US Army in December of 1968, and left the service in Dec of 1983, after 15 years and 13 days of service. During my second tour of duty in the Republic of Korea in 1982, I was introduced to the game of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. By 1985 I became a game master and participated in conventions run by [a nearby] group. This past February, I was given the Life Time Achievement Award for over 25 years of game writing and game mastering.More Air Force stories:People stationed in remote places get a little crazy. Roleplaying suits those people perfectly, since they can imagine being somewhere else! There was a group of AF people who spent four to six weeks at a time on a remote airbase, waiting for good weather to fly. When the weather was bad, they had marathon RPG sessions; when one GM got too tired to continue, another one took over in another campaign. The players shuffled their character sheets to a different set of PCs, and the marathon continued. The game went on non-stop for 3 or 4 days running, till word came that the weather was clearing and everybody went off to get some sleep before the flight. Oh, to have that kind of stamina again!</blockquote>

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