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:	post by DestroyYouAlot at 2009-03-30 14:01:59

aril said	[orig][quote]
screw larping. I just want to hike, have an adventure and perhaps discover something unknown and awesome. DYA, since your dad was in the military and is a world traveller, think he could spare some night vision goggles?

DYA%20NLI said	[orig][quote]
Hahaha... He could totally teach us CQC and then we can take over Shadow Moses.

RE: why this makes sense (and why I'm pretty decent at running around in the woods)

Pretty sure I've talked about this on the site before, but my dad was pretty much IRL Solid Snake. (errr... or Snake, or Big Boss, or whatever the 60's version was. I mean, he wasn't a clone or anything. I think. LOL) I.e., his thing was infiltration, wilderness survival, "non-lethal kills", demolition, paratroop stuff, sharpshooting, etc. He mostly worked in the US doing security test stuff (i.e., hang out in a swamp for a few months, then break into an airbase or a sub base or whatever with no weapons or uniforms or anything, just to prove that it could be done, and they needed to beef up the watches). As he put it, "I don't know that I ever killed anybody, but I definitely put a lot of guys in the hospital, and I kinda feel bad about that." Make of that what you will. Then he spent some time training Marines in jungle survival for a little "police action" in SE Asia we were getting ready for. They eventually asked him to do some stuff he wasn't comfortable with (as I understand it, it involved dispensing with the "non-lethal" thing and going to Eastern Europe during the 60s - again, make of that what you will), so he dropped out and became a hippie. Headband and all. LOL

I didn't even know ANY of this crap until a few years ago - growing up, I knew he was in the military, jumped out of planes, blew up a bridge or two, and that's it. I eventually asked him what the hell he did a few years back, and he told me the above. I kinda gather that he's not super proud of all of it, which is probably why I never heard about any of it, and also why I don't doubt the veracity of all of this (Dad's not the type to make up stories, he's got plenty of real-life weirdness to draw on). Kinda blew my mind - also makes me glad I never ended up trying to swing on him as a teenager. LOL Now he just travels around the world to weird 3rd world countries and hikes a lot, although he did spend some time a few years back driving around North America doing suspiciously well at long-distance air rifle competitions for a 75 year old man. Hmmm...

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