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Chris Barath "Thunder"

 

33, San Francisco, CA.

Soon to be Tucson, AZ.

 

Interests include Military history, gaming: all kinds, photography, hiking and camping, and all things computers.

 

When its up, my home site is www.microarmor.com. Router problems at the moment though.

 

I found Tanknet through my micro armor buddies.

 

Find me on Skype; search for MicroArmor.

 

Job: IT stuff.

 

--cb

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Guest Charles
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Charles Cosens

 

39(Some grey hairs, curtosy of the Wife)

 

Scotland, Highlands near Inverness

 

Ex Royal Navy - but always had a soft spot for Large Guns on vehicles.

 

Interests- Commited Christian, Hillwalking, roleplay and wargamming and not getting caught :rolleyes:

 

Tanknet- found it back in 2001, took the plunge in 04 and have been lurking till recently. Probably going to get spanked in some discussions - such is life.

 

Peace to all

 

Charles

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Name: Inaki

 

Age: 28, 29 in a matter of two weeks (gosh!!!. gettin' old)

Country: Basque Country.

Service: None

Interest: Modern History, Second World War in particular. Land Warfare. Backpacking all along Europe (and visiting places related to Second Workld War... it`s all about it). Isaac Asimov.

Tanknet: Two weeks ago. Introduced by a member. The best thing found on the net in years.

Comments: Just arrived to the forum. Don´t treat me too rough, this is my first time, indeed ;-).

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Name: Marek Tucan

Age: 23

Country: Born in Czechoslovakian Socialistic Republic, for a brief time lived in Czechoslovakian Federative Republic and Czecho-Slovakian Federative Republic, currently living in Czech Republic B)

Service: Armchair general

Interests: Steel Panthers, military history, space flight, Star Wars, music, literature, hiking, eating

Tanknet: Some time ago, been lurking for a while to get info about modern armoured vehicles for my WinSPMBT modified OOBs.

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Name: T70

Age: 34

Service: Conscript, short service, reserves (for too damn long)

Interest: All armour

Tanknet: Lurking since somewhere in 2003

Comments: There are enough others making stupid comments ... it is better to shut up and have everybody think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and confirm the fact.

Posted

It appears that I am about to suffer some posterier bruising if I don't post here.

 

My name is Roger. I'm semi-retired. I spent 10 years in the Australian Army, serving in Infantry and Ordnance Corps. I'm presently studying for a Ba, part-time. My interests are obviously matters military and computers as well as many other things. I live in Adelaide, Australia.

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Oh, cute!

 

Name: I have two names! Yes, really!

Age: born '75.

Country: Uruguay.

Service: Of course NO. White-washing trees is a stupid occupation.

Interest: getting in the right state of mind.

Tanknet: Yes, thanks.

Comments: T-55!

Posted

why can't you just leave us lurkers in peace :D

 

AGE: 27

NAME: George

LOCATION: USA

SERVICE: No

INTERESTS: history, military

lurker for a long time.

Posted

Name: Claus B/cbo

Age: 40-something

Country: Denmark

Service: none

Interest: Modern military history, particularily development of tanks and armoured forces, mainly 1900-1945. Currently fiddling with the history of Danish Army armour ca. 1945-1960

Tanknet: One of the early contributors to Michael Brunks first Heavy Metal forum, being hanging around on-off since.

 

Claus B

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Name: Ryan

Age: 30

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Service: no

Job: software industry

Interests: military history, current affairs, literature, films, sport (especially rugby (BOKKE!), cricket and football- European, English Premier League), beer (especially Kilkenny), bad 80s pop music (Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Human League, Spandau Ballet- don't ask how this started).

Tanknet: found a link to it from army.ca, been hooked ever since.

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Name: Roger D. Foss

Age: 44

Country: USA

Service: USAF '84-'96

Interest: Writing, beer, history, science, science-fiction, militaria

Job: Supporting my writing habit

Tanknet: Found it via Steel Beasts

Comments: Avoiding MODERATed piking

 

 

Shot

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Name: Damian Ong

Age: 33

Country: Singapore, living in Sydney, Australia

Service: Army, artillery, 88-90

Interest: cycling, soccer/footy, mighty, mighty SPURS! militaria

Job: IT Buyer

Comments:

MODERATOR and Cthulhu - Twins? Or coincidence? :D

Guest Charles
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Name: Damian Ong

MODERATOR and Cthulhu - Twins?  Or coincidence? :D

268888[/snapback]

Cthulhu's bad, MODERATOR is in a different league altogether. DO NOT DIS MODERATOR.

 

See, see; I'm being a good boy :D

 

Charles

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Ok, Due to the recent, erm, offer from our beloved moderator, I'll finnaly add myself to this distinguished list.

 

Name : Itay Levin

Age : 32 next month

Country : Israel

Service : Air-force structure officer for close to 9 years (about half in maintenance sq. and half in HQ). Left the service last month.

Intrest : Aviation, TANKS, history, AFVs, basketball, TANKS, weapons and AFVs, among else.

Tanknet : My profile says I joined nearly 4 years ago (how time flies...) thats about when I stumbled upon this forum. Though I can't recall how I was trapped, I'm however glad to have been reading stuff here (even if rarely posting).

Comments : I realy learnt a lot from everyone here.

 

VR

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Name: John Mertins

Age: 22

Country: USA

Service: I did 4 years in NJROTC (Navy Junior, nothing to do with tanks it was just all my school had) and was starting my 3ed year in Army ROTC at UWF when I was droped due to medical reasons :( .

Interest: Tanks (of course :P ) along with other aspects of the military, history, some sci fi, and the game Combat Mission

Tanknet: I do not post that much but sometimes I just have to chime in with my 2 cents.

Comments: This is the one and only fourm that I am a member of, tis that good. :D

Posted

Name : Bruno Zaccoli

Age : 34

Country : USA

Intrest : AFVs, WWII warships, various military topics

Tanknet : Found Tanknet while doing an internet search on MBTs

Comments : Tanknet has froced me to increase my book collection (at considerable cost :D ). I hope to give back to TN at least a fraction of the knowledge I have gained here.

Posted

Don't remember if I did this a couple of years ago, but since I do not wish to endanger my longtime lurker account...

 

:P

 

Name : Ulf Backström

 

Age : 32

 

Nationality : Swedish

 

Service : Doghandler in the Swedish airforce 95-96. Beware my dog, he'd pee on your tank so it'd die a slow rusty death...

 

Tanknet : I think I stumbled across it doing a Google search for some obscure OOB-information regarding an OBAT-modification for some steel panther version...

 

Intrests : Wargaming, weapons technology (raging amateur), the usual stuff.

 

 

Please oh pretty please let me continue my evil lurking!

 

:blush:

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Name: Patrick Bauschke

 

Age: 20

 

Nationality: Germany

 

Service: Leopard 2A4 loader, later driver

 

Tanknet: I like that there are so many different cultures here

 

Interests: Too many to write them all down here

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Name: Erwin van Leijenhorst

 

Age: 37

 

Nationality: Dutch

 

Service: 1 year as private in '91

 

Tanknet: Found it by Battlefront forum, long time ago, I think.

 

Interest: History, Fantasy (yes I'm a dreamer), computer graphics

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Name: Frank

Age: 22

Nationality: American

Service: Armchair general

Tanknet: Found while googling for tank info

Interest: Accounting, computer programming, history, language, theology, music, weapons and armor technology

Posted

Sorry your greatness, I humbly that you spare me and accept this pitiful gift of sacrifice.

 

Name: Hitesh Gupta

 

Age: 27

 

Nationality: American

 

Service: Ineligible due to disability

 

Tanknet: Found it while surfing military interests

 

Interests: Surfing, watching sci-fi shows, reading novels mostly fantasy, playing football, snowboarding,

Posted

Name: Neil Brown

Age: 57

Interests: Heavy equipment (mining,engineering,military)

Occupation: Instructor/consultant, clients have included USMC,Army,Navy.(although NAVSEA was primarily Army operated on the side where I was engaged)

Service: Civilian contractor

Country of residence: Canada

Country of birth: UK, (Scotland)

E-Mail: nbrown2@shaw.ca

First exposure to the previous site was during the last year or so of Heavy Metal, continued since with a name change forced upon me when I had to renew my membership rather than recover my password (at that time I had an AOL account).

I now keep busy training operators of P&H electric mining shovels in North and South America but of late mostly in the Tar Sands of Northern Alberta.

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