I hope to see you all succeed during today's skirmishes.

I would like to remind you all that our human subjects are being portrayed as dummies to avoid casualties. Harming them is just like harming a human and you will lose points for it.

[ Filter: Alvaredo, Lexington, Locke, Noda, Yeats ]Your objective is a cargo truck heading to Team 2's base ( Read more... )

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ALL RIGHT TEAM! Who else is excited for tomorrow? We even get a pro to help us out, but pft, I'm sure we can pull this off without relying on him.

Here are your groups for Saturday's skirmish. Your objectives will be carried out in fashion of Capture the Flag. Each of you will need to obtain and return an object to a specified checkpoint, these objects could take the form of hostages, supplies or hostiles and your task will be to drop them at the desired point. Likewise, you are intended to ( Read more... )

So who's up for a friendly game with the simulators ( Read more... )

So I was wondering...

What led everyone to this place? I mean, I know... recruited, and all that, but. Beyond that. Some people were in the military, but others, like me, weren't.

For example... I was an engineering student, and I built a robotic arm. I guess the military saw it somehow and they liked it, so... here I am.

Heat, humidity, coffee and urine. How charming. How droll. This must be the high school experience I've been told I missed out on.

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Now what's a friendly game that'll actually be useful? No need to lose at chess to a bunch of tournament players without any insight to what they'll do with three dimensions to worry about and pieces that don't move in a straight line.

[filter: instructors]Don't suppose there's any way we could use the strategy simulators during ( Read more... )

If I don't show up for Reveille in the morning, it's because I died of heatstroke in my dorm and lacked a roommate to call for a medic.

brb brief coma time.

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They're not as ungainly as I expected. I should ask if I could get in some extra time training with them. I don't want to be unprepared on Saturday.

[ Filter: Public ]What madman decided Death Valley was an ideal location for training in July? I thought basic training had the worst location for summer outdoor activities, and ( Read more... )

Right. So.

What crawled up into the coffee and died? Nothing that fifteen minutes and a hairpin couldn't fix, of course. Did the ITs last term take their coffee like their women, or is God attempting to send me a message about the state of my soul?