Who am I and where am I calling from?

[Corinthian]

TANKNET WORLD TOUR link....

Tank-Net World

Not guaranteed 100% complete, but we try to put a pin in every country where there are TankNetters.

 

-Mark 1

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ACK! STILL NO PIN IN THE PHILIPPINES! ACK! (unless you guys are tacitly agreeing to our annexation of Indonesia.... )

[binder001]

Name: Gary Binder

Age: almost 55

Country: USA, Nebraska

Service: none- asthma kept me out

Interest: US Army 1940-present, especialy armor and other ordnance

Tanknet: binder001

Comments: amateur model builder, toy soldier collector (US WW2), battle reenactor (long ago when I still had a waistline), enjoy US armor, history, trivia, modeling, etc.

[Guest SirM]

Greetings All

 

Name: Mark

Age: 39

Country: South Africa

Service: State President's Guard 1985 - 1987, East Park Commando's 1988 - 2000

Interest: Modeling (haven't decided armor, ships or aircraft), Scuba diving, reading

Tanknet: Did a Google search on AFV, Tanknet was the first three hits.

Comments: "anything you say can, and will, be used against you in a thread" I think I have said enough.

[Jacques]

You know, I never did do this...Minnesota has no push pin...the horror!

 

Name: Jacques Duquette

 

Age: 34

 

Country: United States of America; Minnesota

 

Service: 8 years Minnesota Army National Guard; Rank: E5 in a E6 slot; Served as a 13F (Forward Observer) and 63D (Tracked Vehicle Recovery Specialist).

 

Interest: Modern armor, especially Soviuet/Russian/Warsaw Pact. Model building. My Family and Community. The Education System.

 

Tanknet: Been on Since Heavy Metal...joined up when I got a computer way back in '97. Been causing heartache ever since.

 

Comments: Love the community here, even if it can be...interesting. Just like the one I live in...

[Juan Sosa]

I think it is about time I updated my info.

 

Name: Juan Sosa

Age: 25

Country: NY, NY (Via Miami and Venezuela)

Service: None

Interest: Aviation, Armor (Duh), Photography, History, cocking (and eating), etc

Tanknet: Joined in September of 2000 after finding the site through the Steal Beasts website.

Comments: Just moved to NYC for a long term project (18 months). Hopefully going back to back to Miami after that time.

[Lefty]

Name: Sean H. Morgan

 

Age:47

 

Country:USA

 

Service: Gunner M1's, Killer Troop, 3/2 ACR, Amberg, Germany USAEUR 1985-1988

S-2/Gunner M1A1's, HHQ/Charlie CO 1/35 Armor, 2nd Brigade, 1st AD, Erlangen, Germany USAEUR 1988-1990.

 

Interests: Tanks and the never ending Gun/Armor Race, would also include shotguns, birddogs, hunting, Mountain Biking and fishing.

 

Tanknet: Stumbled on it searching on the items above

 

Comments: Glad I found this place, it led me to Steel Beasts..

[crossbow]

Since you asked so nicely

 

Name: Kris

 

Age: 38

 

Country: Belgium

 

Service: Nope, I was drafted (when service was still mandatory), but they couldn't use me (sporting injury).

 

Interest: Military vehicles and military history (in what ever time is still left after SWMBO and jr have had my complete and utter attention...)

 

Tanknet: A fellow volunteer pointed me here

 

Comments: As in any other forum... let's see how it turns out

[120mm]

Name: Drew

 

Age: 42

 

Country: US

 

Service: Active Duty Army, Iowa Army National Guard, Army Reserves, 1982 - Present. Enlisted Field Artillery, Armor, MI, Chemical, Transportation Officer, Germany, Iraq, CONUS

 

Interest: Currently pursuing Ph. D. in History of Technology

 

Tanknet: Referred to by WWII Romanian military forum

 

Comments: Especially interested in the cultural aspects of technology, eastern European weapons technology and alternative defense solutions.

[Guest Jarppan]

Name: Jari Ensomaa

Age: 34

Country: Oulu, Finland

Service: 11 months in Air Force communications school. Specialized as radar operator -> fighter controller. Active in FAF reserve. Current rank 1st Lieutenant.

Interest: Aviation, general military issues, scuba diving, snooker

Tanknet: Referred to by Tomi Sarvanko

Comments: An interesting forum...

[SwingKid]

Name: Andrew Pavacic

Age: 31

Country: Canada

Service: Application to CAF apparently in limbo. Satellite antenna designer and combat simulation programmer, currently completing doctorate in electrical engineering

Interest: Aviation and combat simulation

Tanknet: Researching vehicle & weapon data for a future combat simulation, planned to be set in Middle East

Comments: I made me an antenna out of tank armour, once...

[medicjim86]

Name: Jim Mitchell

Age: 40

Country: USA

Service: No military service. Municipal Firefighter (22yrs), Paramedic, Hazardous Materials Specialist and FEMA USAR logistics / rescue tech.

Interest: Command and Control methods

Tanknet: Post 9/11 blues, became interested in military versions of C&C principals...found this site by accident

Comments: Hobbies - long range precision marksmanship

[Algernon]

Name: Daren Barnes

Age: 21

Country: USA, Iowa

Service: none (Army Recruit, does that count?)

Interest: Armor

Tanknet: Picked up the link from another forum I was browsing.

Comments: Best AFV community i've ventured into so far.

[CV9030FIN]

Name: Withheld for OPSEC concerns

 

Age: Withheld for OPSEC concerns

 

Country: Finland

 

Service: Officer in service of FDF, one tour to AFG

 

Interest: Armor, Tactics, military history

 

Tanknet: Reader since 2004, posted since 2006

 

Comments: Working with MBT, IFV, APC and ACP related issues for 10+ years

Edited July 29, 2009 by CV9030FIN

[Psyclops]

Name: Michael Kaufmann

Age: 30

Country: USA, Iowa

Service: None

Interests: Armor, the Cold War, writing

TankNet: Lurking almost daily since '05, found it Googling for tank info

Comments: I found out quickly I have little to add to the knowledge base of this grate sight, but decided to join so I could ask questions.

[Danno]

Name: Dan Spencer

Age: 34

Country: Flint, MI

Service: 4 years Army-Tanker, 3 Years Guard - Infantry

Interests: Tanks, Wargaming, Beer, Movies, Music

TankNet: Just found the site a few days ago

[George Newbill]

Name: George Newbill

Age:46

Country:USA

Service:Mix of Regular Army and Mississippi National Guard Retired 2000, re-enlisted 2003 to 2006, BaQouba, Iraq 2-63 Armor Bn.

Interest: Tanks, general politics, sex, drugs, rock & roll.

Tanknet:Old forum as a lurker.

Comments: Nice Guy.

[Zaraguina]

Update of this.

Service: French army Sergeant.

[Sailor Lars]

Name : Lauri Heikki Hietanen, albeit thinking of taking the ancenstral name and changing it to Lars Henrik Stubbe, for europarlamentary money-milking operation.

 

Country : The land of the thousand lakes (( even though the two swedish lakes hold more water combined than our all damn ponds ))

 

Age : Meagerly 25, albeit having lived a rather intresting life for the time. Born in 9.12.1981

 

Service : Civil Servant, instead of Conscription. I was the only one to stand up in the hall and walk through the hall to the three officers with big hats and a big table in front of all, to say that i wanted to do the civil service instead of military. This at age of seventeen.

 

At 18-19, i was realiziing that since i was going through a nordic syndrome plus extras, it might be better to switch to military, since they pay my roof, my food, and my booze. As an extra, they would give me enough to do without having to think it out myself.

 

Rank : Senior Citizen (( retired at age of 19. Post status cum paraparesis TH 10 plus few other not so entertaining injuries )) Taido Kyu 3, achieved as minor, as we were restricted the higher ranks.

 

Intrests : Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and railway artillery.

 

Tanknet : multi-year lurker

 

Oh... Training : National level Championship at Taido combat sports. Unfortunately unofficially, only. I was insecure and shy as a boy, sent to my first championship at age of 11 and wearing a white belt

 

//edit about the rank. I actually have a rank at something! \o/

Edited December 15, 2006 by Sailor Lars

[Sailor Lars]

Am I the only one fearing a hostile Finnish takeover - so many Finns lately

 

But OTOH there are to many yanks and rednecks around here   

 

Cheers

 

Hans

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Dear Hans, Resistance is futile. Surrender to your new masters, and being early, guarantee good years for your family in the following years!

 

Cthulhu F'tgnh! Iä Iä!

[Ivanhoe]

Perhaps Hans should be more worried about Finns having an interest in railway guns...

[irregularmedic]

Everyone expects the TankNet Inquisition. Confess. Its good for the soul. If you have no soul, you'll fit right in.

 

Cthulhu said he was just 'holding on to my soul for safekeeping', I'm sure I'll get it back!

 

 

Name : Karl - -

 

Country : U.S. of A.

 

Age : 34

 

Service : 4F *, I tried to enlist when I was 17, and at the time they 'promised' you the MOS of your choice. I was gonna be a tanker and get shipped off to Germany and live happily ever after. Sam didn't want me though, so I've been working as a medic of different stripes, mostly working for the public in some fasion or another.

I was 4F due to a back surgery, these days I bet they wouldn't turn me down!

 

Rank : N/A

 

Oh, don't know which of the two of the above categories this should go under, but I spent a year as the Co-Leader of the University of Washington Medical Center's Haz-Mat Decontamination Team. Try saying that three times quickly!

 

Intrests : History; usually military history, most well versed in WWII. Cycling, firearms, the rest is probably best left unmentioned...

 

Tanknet : lurked for awhile, joined recently.

 

Comments: grate site!

Edited January 28, 2007 by irregularmedic

[CT96]

Name: Charles Morello

Age: 31

Country: USA

Service: Army (Currently stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, KS)

Interest: military history, ancient history, European history, contemporary geopolitics

Tanknet: Been around for a while, lurking mostly.

Comments: 9/11 volunteer, Army Brat, almost a dozen years in the ETO, Military Intel and Computer Engineering; quiet but insightful.

[Guest iafuj]

Name: Rich

Age: 25

Country: USA

Service: USMC

Interest: history, biographies, law, current events, military, world affairs, running, and video games

Tanknet: I registered in 2005, but have only been an off-and-on lurker... I found the site while researching for a paper in school.

Comments: I'm currently a 1stLt waiting for orders to TBS. I'm a law guy and will eventually be serving as a judge advocate, but right now I'm working for a law firm till I get orders.

[Brummbaer]

A post I forgot to make as first, sorry.

 

Name: Andrea <-- yes it's a MALE name in Italy!

Age: born 1968, 38 now

Country: Italy

Service: none, left out in time of reducing drafts.

Interest: military history, mostly WW2 and Cold War; have been shifting through ships, planes and land weapons all my life, now stabilized on tanks, but keeping an eye on everything. Also scientific subjects.

Tanknet: mostly lurking and asking questions, but sometimes I feel I can put my two cents and hope someone find it useful. Tanknet's a unique place in the net, one of my favorites for the competence and width of the discussions, the incredibly low polemical rate and the great humor that goes all through it. Thanks to all those who make it great.

[Carl Brutananadilewski]

Name - just call me "Carl"

 

Born - 06-23-1980 (26)

 

Country - US

 

Military Service - None

 

Interests - Tanks, Planes, Automobiles, Construction Equipment, Trains

 

Been lurking for some time, enjoying the many informative posts by former tankers.