As the original post said, yeah. I was 17 in 1985, and strongly considering a military career. In 2000, I would have been 32, and I calculated, a Captain-- Major, if I did things right or this kind of war had happened.
I messed around with a few different character options for the future-me, including Intel, infantry and armor, as well as a fighter pilot. I played the last year of high school (that final summer I ran the Poland series), and into college, when I started ROTC. Oddly, I could only convince one other cadet in our very small det to play along.
Once the Army realized I had had asthma, it was over with that career, so it all turned into fantasy.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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