Well I think a lot of dudes know me but I need to kill some time so here goes.
I started out on TG in 2003 playing Ghost Recon Co-Op. Actually it was called XLII back then. I had flight-simmed for a long time with Badger and he pointed me over here.

Badger and I played the first Internet MMOG, WarBirds, which was a hardcore WWII flight sim. I got super addicted to WarBirds and a spinoff called Aces High, to the point of running a squadron and planning and leading operations with up to 150 players on each side. Some other WarBirds players made a voice comms system called Roger Wilco and we used to have a blast creating these huge recreations of historical air battles with a realistic chain of command, GCI, etc. You got one life only in each event, which still shapes my planning and thinking today.

Anyways, I did GR on and off until Joint Operations came out, which I played the crap out of with Apophis and Luna and others. But it was even less realistic than vanilla BF2, so I tired of it.

I did some sporadic OFP gaming here, but that game was so buggy in multiplayer that I got tired of that too. During this period I mostly went sim racing and played Combat Mission.

I got back into TG again when BF2 came out. Just like with JO, the lack of realism burned me out and I went away for a couple of years. More sim racing at race2play.net (fabulous online racing site) during that period.

Then a couple of months ago I saw the PR area here, and figured I'd try it out. Since then I've had a blast. The level of play is so much higher than the early vanilla days. There's a dozen squad leaders on the server that are better than anyone we had back in the day. And the mod is excellent, although to some degree it's like putting lipstick on a pig. But other than one stupid thing I did, this has been super fun and addictive. Yaay TG.