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Well for the last 6 years I have been coaching youth soccer here and I decided to take this fall season off and play in the mens league.well my grandson is playing little league football,he's in 4th grade so he was finally able to play.I was enjoying just sitting back and sipping coffee when his coach came over and asked me to help..wellhow do you say no?So I guess this rant is just to vent that I don't get a season off. Oh yeah my mens league team is off to a decent start as we're 3-0 on top of the tables and I even have a few goals already this season.

congrats!

welcome back,glad to Cya again

i would be sure to mark it as non explosive..and this may sound over the top but you might even check with the Coast Guard or Navy about this matter.where are you planning this?theres bound to be an agency that can tell you how to be sure that nobody will disturb him in the future.

Neal at Subsim.com had the opportunity to talk with the Dev. team of Silent Hunter IV and you can read about the up coming title and see a few screenshots.Looks awsome and Neal did a great job with the interview,read about it at subsim.com http://www.subsim.com/ssr/sh4/sh4_interview1.php

heres a direct comparison http://www.bmcycles.com/harleyVShonda.swf

Nice pictures..i really enjoyed them.that is one great camera phone you got there,clear and good resolution.

Nasher,I don't think anyone was offended,Erik was trying to head off a firestorm(so to speak)This is and always will be one of the most layed back communities on the net.Just keep in mind these are violent times and emotions run high.We all know you're a great member here and I for one always enjoy your posts.Nothing personal was intended,and remember Erik is one of the owners..so be nice

This is from the Lead Pursuit site: " News Update: August 9th, 2006 Work on Allied Force continues with our latest patch which we're currently testing out. This build will introduce support for Hyperlobby and improvements to many other areas of the simulation. We've further enhanced refuelling and fixed the CCIP pipper in the 2D cockpit, where for ripple bombing the pipper now designates the center of the bomb string. There's also a reworking of the SAM targeting code. You should see fewer instances of AI aircraft hitting the deck and the occasional building will no longer defy the laws of gravity. Campaign has been boosted, including a fix to stop aircraft from taking off from destroyed carriers. All this -- and much more -- remains "work in progress" but you get an idea of where the changes are happening." looking good so far..

check it out and get ready HERE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5V7gOIVVvI and you'll love this one also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xivKZvE170 ok you tomcat fans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplP0HM6Oa4

check it out at the Falconlobby home page FALCONLOBBY

almost forgot."the Blue Max" greatest WW1 movie I've ever seen.

OK here a chance to try this title out for free and see how you like it.Personally I find myself playing it alot.Good graphics and fun MP..BIG tank battles,and just hours of fun. Find out more HERE

Red Baron 3-D one of the greatest ever!

OK take the test TEST HERE

Very nice pics,Thanks!I hope you had a great time.

Das Boot,THE greateast war time movie ever Band of Brothers Patton,Tweleve O'clock High(a tie here) Apocolpyse Now,REDUX is the stuff,gotta agree with Fates.

top shelf as always!!getting my WW1 FS:SDOE back up to snuff.

heres a link for ya...one of my first sims..loved it.Sory but one of the few i still have book marked.Try a search for it..there should be a few sites left. http://www.angelfire.com/nj/15bldhlp/

first welcome to Combatace,and now to your question...theres so many different opinions on this..for total realism..hands down Falcon 4:AF i mean clickable cockpits and all those radar modes..it's about as real as it gets without sitting in a F-16(of course theres the easy settings),for a prettier sim but not nearly as real theres LOMAC...great eye candy,and some really cool jets.then theres the "light"sim Strike Fighter:project1,Wings Over Vietnam,and now Wings over Europe:Cold War Gone Hot,these are not nearly as real as the others and they are not meant to be...TK is continuing support of these titles,and theres so many add-on aircraft,terrains,and different mods around for them,check the downloads section here.If you want WW2 then theres only 1 choice..IL-2 and ALL of it's add-ons,if you want to be a prop jock thats the only one worth having. Hope this helps some.

I have a friend that lives there,and his girlfriend worked in the office right beside where the bus blew up.I got hear baout it from him,and I like many will never forget.

he has it looking good.i like his new graphics.

this is a good little forum for all you shooter fans out there.it covers only Nfusion games titles but it has some good info. http://bassface3d.com/phpBB2/index.php

from the May 26, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0526/p09s01-coop.html When we said goodbye to the USS Oriskany A rusted ship moved men to tears. And that was before she slipped beneath the sea. By Nicholas A. Basbanes PENSACOLA, FLA. - A day before the USS Oriskany (CV-34) was scheduled to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico last week, Denny Earl, a naval aviator attached to the venerable aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War with Attack Squadron 163, bade farewell to his old ship in a dazzlingly audacious way. Now a contract pilot for the Navy involved in navigator training, Mr. Earl was at the controls of a T-39 Sabreliner when he headed for the site 24 miles southeast of Pensacola where the "Mighty O" would be scuttled the following morning in 212 feet of water. "I locked it up on the radar, dropped down to 500 feet, and executed a carrier break at the bow," he told me matter-of-factly aboard the Lady Val, one of 400 private yachts and charter boats that had sailed out to observe the giant vessel's unprecedented transformation into the world's largest artificial reef. "Then I turned downwind and dirtied up," pilot talk for lowering the landing gear and flaps; he then "rolled into the groove for a carrier approach" to the flight deck. Earl had no intention of touching down, of course, but he did glide past the port side of the "old girl" at an altitude of 150 feet, rolling slightly to the right as he flew by, and snapped a smart salute. He then "cleaned up the airplane" and headed back to Pensacola Naval Air Station. Earl had every good reason to feel sentimental, his unconventional tribute notwithstanding. During a bombing mission over North Vietnam on Nov. 20, 1967, both of his legs were shattered by groundfire that ripped through his A4 Skyhawk. Instead of "punching out" over hostile territory, the lieutenant junior grade returned to his ship in the Tonkin Gulf, pounding one fist against the cockpit glass to fight the pain while pulling off a perfect landing with the other. In an instant, Denny Earl had become an Oriskany legend, sharing glory with Sen. John McCain, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Jim Stockdale, and pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard, among so many others. For days leading up to the reefing, hundreds of other Oriskany men converged on Pensacola to pay their respects in ways that were far less spectacular, but profoundly poignant all the same. Aboard the Lady Val alone, were several dozen veterans, including Chuck Tinker, a fighter pilot who survived the Oct. 26, 1966, fire that killed 44 officers and crew, by squeezing himself through a porthole onto a catwalk; and Jack Kenyon, my commanding officer on the 1969 cruise, and surrogate father to the 3,200 men who sailed with us. People who have never served aboard a naval ship can be excused for wondering how it is that grown men could cry so freely and without embarrassment at the sight of an obsolete leviathan they once called home being sent to the bottom in what amounted to a sailor's burial at sea. "Ships have a way of imparting something of themselves to those who sail in them," is the way Captain Kenyon describes the dynamic that takes place between a vessel and her crew. He said that two years ago when news of the reefing was announced, and his words still resonate quite powerfully for me today. As fighting machines, ships are very definitely masculine - man-of-war is a well-known expression that has been around for centuries to describe a formidable ship of the line - but as personifications, they unfailingly are feminine, and typically referred to with the pronoun "she." Why such a paradox happens to be the case is anyone's guess, but beyond dispute is the emotional pull these vessels have upon the people who serve aboard them. My sense is that we regard ships as being female because they are the quintessence of comfort and shelter - they become our homes - and homes, more often than not, are held together by wives and mothers. Those of us who served aboard Oriskany in Vietnam recall an era of national unrest, a time when so much acrimony was directed at anyone who happened to wear a uniform. There were three certainties we always relied on: We knew we had our shipmates and our skipper - what Shakespeare called "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers" - and we had our ship. The thought that Oriskany might be reduced to scrap or towed, as once proposed, to Tokyo Bay where it would have become a gaudy theme park, were not options any of us regarded as appropriate. But in 2003 came word of a novel idea that would allow the ship to become what some have called the Great Carrier Reef, enabling it to withdraw with dignity, and a measure of functionality to boot. It is estimated that as many as 45,000 men served aboard Oriskany during 26 years of active duty that included 17 overseas deployments, most of them to Korea and Vietnam. On its date with destiny nine days ago, our thoughts and prayers went out to the 94 airmen who never survived their missions, to the 19 who were prisoners of war, and to the 44 sailors who perished in the 1966 fire. Still very much the reliable ship that always answered the call, Oriskany cut a majestic figure on May 17. At 10:26 a.m., 22 synchronized explosions were set off. Plumes of brown smoke rose through the stack high above the island structure, and billowed out the open doorways. The end came 36 minutes later, swiftly and without incident. Stripped of the thick wooden planks that had cushioned its massive flight deck for half a century, the 900-foot-long flat-top had acquired a veneer of rust. The Mighty O rose sharply at the bow, then dipped a few degrees to port before slipping beneath the surface, a glaze of Navy gold shining brightly in the morning sun. ? Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of five books, most recently "Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World." He was a public affairs officer aboard Oriskany during the 1969 and 1970 cruises to the Western Pacific.