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Originally Posted by Pappy55
The chap in the middle is 'Cmdr. E.Grenfall' who was lucky to survive the war he was torpedoed TWICE, thrown into the icy Arctic waters and spent some time in a Russian hospital. He is fluent in German and Russian. He also thinks the Germans are the nicent people in Europe. (no hard feelings at all) 
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That man is a very good soldier.
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The one on the left is J.Hobbs my dad's best friend who died a few years ago.
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You have my condolences. It's a loss for everyone when a man with such experience dies.
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Saddest part is my dad is now in a care home with Dementia and dosent really know me anymore.
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Well, that's just about the most awful thing I've heard in along time. I used to work with elderly folks who had Alzheimer's, so I have some context. Never had to personally deal with a relative, or worse, an immediate family member who was affected, but I've seen how it hurts the families.....it's just terrible. Truly, my prayers are with you and your father.
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Okay, so now that I'm horribly depressed, what was this thread about again? How we all got into subsims?
I've been into military everything for pretty much my entire life. My family has a long tradition of military service in every branch and in several different nations. I was brought up with the expectation that I would one day become a US Air Force officer and a fighter pilot. To that end, I spent countless hours learning everything I could about every military that had ever existed on the planet.
Naturally, I spent a lot of time studying the World Wars, and in doing so I developed a great respect for the German military model. No matter where you're from or what you've been told, you have to respect German military achievements; especially those in the past century-and-a-half. The Germans are masters of efficiency and effectiveness on the battlefield, so I took my cues from them. In short, I have a fascination with military history, particularly German military history.
I got into subsims because I admire the strategy behind
guerre de course. I've stuck with them because they're just about the only combat sim that has anything to do with reality. Spending the time to detect, track, and intercept a target using nothing but geometry and hydrophones is a lot more rewarding than capping some witless noob at his pre-determined spawn-point.