"Marines Who Love Space Marines" Topic

"As an Army officer, Maj. Stephen D. Carey has served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his spare time, he fights a different kind of battle, one that rages in the apocalyptic 41st millennium. The distant future would be a terrifying realm for a mere mortal, what with all the Necrons, Tyranids, and Tau on the loose. To survive the war-torn galaxy, Carey enlists the help of marauding, green-skinned Orks. He also presides over an Imperial Guard army, because some days, defending mankind is more fun than trying to destroy it…"
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Amicalement
Armand

An interesting insight. Cool article.

Interesting. I wonder if there are many in the military services who play FOW, TY and BA.

Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I always love reading about service people who find wargames to get involved with.

My dad, who was a Captain in the USMC, inadvertently got me started in gaming by dying when I was 8 years old.

When he died I went snooping in his Study and found several books on wargaming as well as numerous 54mm pewter AWI & Napoleonic miniatures.

That was the pebble that started the avalanche that brings me to where I am today.

Thanks!

Amicalement
Armand

When my son was in the Marines he got into some trouble warning people in his unit about his LT and a couple of senior NCO's who were standing in the way of his team getting training and certification for a Mid-East deployment coming up. He went around their back and got his team certified anyhow which pissed off the Sr NOC's even more. They conspired against him and complained to the Colonel in charge of the deployment he was unfit to deploy despite having some of the highest Pro-Con scores and classroom instructor as a L/Cpl.

So he goes in to see the Colonel who remarks about his first name being Wolfgang and for some reason asks him if he ever heard of the 40K Space Wolves. Right question. He's been playing 40K for 10 years and had a Space Wolf Army including the 13th Company. It turned out the Colonel was also into 40K and had gotten his 10-year-old son playing too. He said for the next 3 hours they discussed the game and the books that have been written of which the Colonel also read. The end result was a great rapport with the Colonel and they agreed to exchange books in the future and approved him to deploy.

During the deployment, he kept up his warnings which generated three page 11's which he signed and took credit for knowing it would go up the chain of command and they'd see his warnings. His team was building targeting information on bad guys in his AO for snatches, drone strikes, etc. They realized the targeting list his LT and the Sr NCO who had it out for him had approved several US citizens to be targeted who were not on the list they received from the intel agencies back in DC. Then when pulling out of a country the LT and Sr NCO left some T/S hard drives back at the FOB and told Wolfgang his team was responsible for them (he wasn't) so he had to sneak back into the country and retrieve them.

Finally, it got to the Colonel who had enough and sent the LT and Sr NCO back to the states and the Colonel personally thanked him. The Colonel's admin gave Wolfgang back the three Page 11's and said he should give them to his Company Commander to put in his personnel file or he could do whatever he wanted with them – so he put them through a paper shredder.

It all ended well.

Wolfhag