Thanks to all the veterans for your time and sacrifice.
I know that Airborne Ranger is a vet. I'm not certain if there are others but thanks to everyone who has served our country.
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I believe gkmetty may also be a vet 
Thanks to all.
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Indeed, many thanks to all! Your service is greatly appreciated and honored.
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I believe Lord Diamond is as well, and likely several others.
My Father was a career Colonel in the Air Force, Philippines in WWII, Korea, and technically a veteran of Vietnam although was not in country. At the Pentagon during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis - we built a bomb shelter at the time in McLain, VA. I was six.
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Thanks, and right back at you. Nearly 10 years in the Air Force.
Lord Diamond
Please do not take any of my comments as a personal insult or as a criticism of the game 'Alamaze', which I very much enjoy. Rather, I hope that my personal insight and unique perspective may, in some way, help make 'Alamaze' more fun, a more successful financial venture, or simply more sustainable as a long-term project. Anyone who reads this post should feel completely free to ignore, disregard, scorn, implement, improve, dispute, or otherwise comment upon its content.
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4 years Active Army. 101st Airborne Division Screaming Eagles. 10 years Florida National Guard, Air Defense Artillery (Duster, Chapparal, Hawk, Patriot) "If it flies, it dies!"
Managed to miss being deployed in all of that, so mostly what I got was a bunch of free clothing (green), hair cuts (short), unlimited ammunition, and the chance to shoot the 10 from a M1A1 moving across the desert at 40mph(how many people get to do that?). And yes, I hit the target. Oh and some money for college. Almost went to Desert Shield but the Army couldn't figure out how to activate a single 1st Lieutenant from the National Guard into active duty. They fixed that since
So not much of a sacrifice to my mind. But I was very fortunate and so many have lost so much.
As my avatar would say, "Peace". War games are fun, war in real life not so much.
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I did Desert Storm and a couple other trips to the desert before it got really ugly. No IUDs for me, thankfully. Combat Communcations.
Lord Diamond
Please do not take any of my comments as a personal insult or as a criticism of the game 'Alamaze', which I very much enjoy. Rather, I hope that my personal insight and unique perspective may, in some way, help make 'Alamaze' more fun, a more successful financial venture, or simply more sustainable as a long-term project. Anyone who reads this post should feel completely free to ignore, disregard, scorn, implement, improve, dispute, or otherwise comment upon its content.
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Mad hatter is a veteran. 20 years in Air Force.
Thank you for all your sacrifices. I hope some of you took advantage of the free meals places were offering vets
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The day I was suppose to leave MEPs for basic training I had a seizure. Stupid epilepsy
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When I joined, the LA MEPS was under siege cause of the Rodney King riots…
I remember the NAVY guys were dicks to us. I guess it was their one chance to have the upper hand.
In Basic I remember this guy who would fall asleep, just randomly. Literally at any time he would all of a sudden fall asleep.
Another guy would wet his pants when we were at the end doing our foxhole stay + road march. It got dark and he got really scared and would piss his pants.
Another guy was really short and his dick would hit the floor (with him standing up). Unfortunately, they have these public showers and 0 privacy.
Korea is a shithole. 1 person was too many people to lose to save them.
Germany was nice, Bavaria, although that's likely going to change… East Europe we'd go and the women would swarm us. Literally you'd go to a club and 5-6 women on top of you.
That's all the important stuff I remember, 10 years Army.
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