Join the new world

I had my 2nd eRep b-day a few weeks ago. Which, at least seems like a while. I have been an Officer in one military unit or another for the majority of that time. It’s what I do. All of my experiences and efforts have all been towards the goal of leading people, helping them with what they need. I have observed some things during this time:

#1 – Don’t accept a friend request from Serbians and/or people with a jumble of characters for a name.

#2 – Don’t ever let someone intimidate you, you’re on the internet, you can be 110 pounds IRL but be a power house in this game.

#3 – Getting angry does nothing, patience wins every time.

I started out in ST6 back in 09, can’t fully remember the Platoon name, something with dragon in it I think. Did a month there, than went over to the US Military because I wanted to be in a government sponsored fighting force (you’ll notice this theme again). I was in the Airborne for well over a year, as an Officer the whole time just about. I made it to Branch Executive Officer, 2nd in Command. This was when XO’s weren’t allowed in the JCS, so I was disappointed that I got all the way up the totem pole but didn’t get what I worked for. Whatever. At this point the line between the then US Military and the rest of the US was getting very clear. You were either on their side or not welcome.

People from Congress started PM’ing me on IRC about what’s going on. People were trying to bridge the divide, I could see that. I wanted to help, and as XO of a Branch I was in a position of authority (sort of). But I couldn’t tell anyone that I was speaking with these people because I feared I would be disposed of. In the end it didn’t do much good. I purposely started to post on the USForums because I wanted people to see that at least someone was making an effort to make things better. But there wasn’t much I could do, I wasn’t important enough.

I had to wait, specifically for Channing (then the General of the Airborne) to retire. It was known within the Senior Officers that he wanted to (never really understood why he waited so long). I was getting frustrated with him; he was there for waaaaaay too long and needed to step aside. Then one day it happened, I got on the the Mil Forum in the morning as I always did and looked at all the stuff that was posted while I was gone, Channing posted his retirement thread. Read through it, and saw that he made his successor Cyber Witch.

My reaction


I was a bit peeved but I was willing to stay in the branch because I still loved the Airborne. I then noticed that I didn’t have access to everything I used to. I was stripped of my Officer and Senior Officer masking. After dedicating my entire erepublik life to this branch, all my personal funds, over a year of my time, I was tossed aside and was left as a Pvt. At this point I would have loved to see the Airborne burn, still kinda do. I saw what people were willing to do to stay in power, and I was quite disgusted. Not so much at the JCS, but at those who remained so loyal to them.
And even MORE so at those who didn’t even approve of the JCS but still stayed. Dumb fucks. And this is coming from a guy who was so excited to become a JCS member that he made an avatar beforehand.



That was the day that the US Military became the former US Military. I got a few messages from Airborne people who didn’t understand what happened and asked what was going on. I didn’t know what to tell them, because I was just as much in the dark as they were. For the first time I was a loner. Everything I had was taken, my friends, everything I worked for. Gone. So, for about 5 days I had no idea what to do, just kinda wandered around for a while staring blankly. Felt weird not being in the IRC channels I was so accustom to.

But then I read an article by Emerick, that a new Military was in the works. I immediately went to Avruch and signed up. I used all of my frustration of what happened as fuel to build that Army, everything I did was to show them that I will do everything I had first set out to when I signed up in the Airborne despite the setback. During the creation of the Army, me and all the others made sure that it would be nothing like what the JCS created. And I think we did just that. After a while Deificus retired, I got my shot to become a General. I’ve remained in the position for 3 and a half months.

Now, I feel I have done everything I can. I had my fun, I became a General just as I always wanted, in spite of what my former friends did. And the Army will always be a monument of a giant middle finger made of hundreds of soldiers pointed at the JCS. At least for me 😛 I made an awesome set of friends, and got everything I wanted out of the Army and the USAF at large. So in the end, I regained everything I had lost, and then some. So, I win.

I am submitting my Official Resignation from the position of Branch Commanding Officer of the United States Army of the US Armed Forces.

Retirement should be nice. I'll still be around, just relaxing . . .