The decade has passed and a lot of students at NCSU are considered veterans now having served or are currently serving. They have questions... there must be a forum.

10/5/2011 9:42:51 PM

i bet you can find one on google.

10/5/2011 10:58:29 PM

Serving what, beers or something?

10/6/2011 1:52:31 AM

not sure we need an entire forum...

10/6/2011 3:15:50 PM

For all 10 of us

10/8/2011 7:21:45 PM

there are more fishermen than veterans on here. we have a single thread and it's good enough.

10/8/2011 8:11:10 PM

or not. It was just an idea. Would have loved to get to know veterans, or cadets or whatever . There isn't an ROTC for fisherman but I'm sure there's a club for that too.

10/8/2011 8:48:52 PM

So create an ROTC thread in the Lounge?

10/8/2011 9:04:57 PM

i mean, i don't give a fuck what forums they create. doesn't make a difference to me.

but i do think a single thread would suffice for the veterans on here. if you've got a question or something that couldn't be handled by that thread, then another website would probably be better for you anyway. same thing for fishing shit. i'll post crap in the thread, but if i really want some fishing reports or i have a tough question, i'll go to a fishing forum on another site.

10/9/2011 9:34:21 PM

I think the idea is to draw people to the site. It doesn't make sense for Wal-mart to refer you to a specialty store if they want to conduct good business. Instead, they'll tell you they've got what you're looking for and they've got it easier and cheaper than the next.

Ease of use folks... that's what did it for myspace, and that's what did it for Facebook after.

10/11/2011 3:38:00 AM

I think it could do well. Lots of students lurking may be ROTC or anticipating joining the service. It could be great to have a place where a student could come and see how, say, one prominent TWWer joined the Marines and now flies jets. I don't think this type of community exists strictly for college students who are looking at the military plus early-career soldiers. Most vet forums I've come across are 40 year old vets without college degrees.

I don't think a single thread could really handle the vast diversity of questions. On one hand you have Tarun asking about joining the Coast Guard, Fareako just getting out of TBS, and vets looking for advice on PTSD.

10/11/2011 3:15:58 PM

I vote for the veteran's forum to be named Semper Fudge

10/11/2011 5:53:39 PM

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"I don't think a single thread could really handle the vast diversity of questions."

Seems to work just fine for the backpacking/camping thread, wedding thread, etc.

10/12/2011 10:00:44 AM

do you think if your dad would've had a veteran's forum, he'd have punched a gay poster

and would you still have been as proud of him

10/12/2011 11:45:00 AM

You should overtake a lesser section by force

Seems right

10/12/2011 12:30:15 PM

I'd be curious to know the exact number of active posters who are ROTC, Active Duty, or Vets.

10/12/2011 1:19:46 PM

^ Then make a ROTC/Active Duty/Veterans Roll Call thread

10/12/2011 1:42:51 PM

Lol...
1) Sit on your ass and never see combat or any danger worse than accidentally shooting yourself
2) Call yourself a veteran.


I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

10/12/2011 4:13:53 PM

I have zero issues with someone doing that, I'm a vet, I've deployed and was in hostile situations. If someone served, they served, I don't give a damn if they say behind a desk their entire career.

10/12/2011 4:40:30 PM

^^ Man, you're a disrespectful little fuck. Who cares if they were on a battle field, in a control and command center, or sat behind a desk making sure others' got their paycheck?

One thing is clear.... they've done more than your scrawny, trolling ass.

10/12/2011 7:46:58 PM

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"One thing is clear.... they've done more than your scrawny, trolling ass."

This.

10/12/2011 9:20:43 PM

Ok. Where's the Veteran roll call thread, that was actually a good idea

10/12/2011 10:30:58 PM

What are you trying to make us targets man? Haven't you ever heard of OPSEC?

Are you trying to get us to make a hit list for your Iranian plots just south of the border?

What's the matter with yoU?

10/13/2011 12:58:00 AM

Ok MC being someone who more or less had a really good job in the defense industry, do you think they have done more than you have?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

10/14/2011 8:02:35 AM

you're a fucking idiot.

10/14/2011 8:51:01 AM

^^

10/14/2011 12:14:29 PM

No need. Start a thread.

10/14/2011 7:44:54 PM

Issues like post-DADT, weapons preferences, first-aid care in combat, life after the military, state tax laws, veteran's disability, toxic leaders, UCMJ, behaviors in the workspace, thoughts on drill and ceremony and how it's no longer being used, the ACU pattern, etc...

I could go on and on, and I'm only just talking Army. I'm sure there's representation from the other 3 services as well.

You don't have a military audience because you don't have the forum for it. A thread would suffice to maintain what you have now. A forum is room for expansion for more participation from the audience.

You guys are all about now... I'm talking about the future.

[Edited on October 15, 2011 at 5:08 PM. Reason : CG is Homeland Defense]

10/15/2011 5:07:25 PM

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10/15/2011 10:03:15 PM

Quote :

"A thread would suffice to maintain what you have now. A forum is room for expansion for more participation from the audience."

10/16/2011 5:51:57 PM

Backpacking and wedding topics != The entirety of the US military

10/19/2011 9:18:23 AM

ThePeter has obviously not existed in the past 10 years.

10/19/2011 12:15:47 PM

do what now

I'm saying those are more or less simplistic topics compared with the diverse issues that come up in military discussions

Unless you're trying to make some kind of joke about military = a lot of backpacking and weddings, which, although true sometimes, deserves quite a strong

10/19/2011 12:43:55 PM

I find 99% of everything Apocalypse does a poor cry for attention. This is no different.

I've seen tons of forums that are just a wasteland of dead message boards that get posted in once every few days. Even then, its like a group of 10 or fewer people actually participating. The last thing TWW needs is to split our user-base into further segmented boards.

If you could spin this into some form of feature to lure in new posters, sure, that's splendid. But I don't see that turning into this. Lets call this what it is: another board for Apoc to try to create as many pointless threads in as possible (much easier to do this when there are more boards).

You say:

Quote :

"A thread would suffice to maintain what you have now. A forum is room for expansion for more participation from the audience.""

I say:

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"Less is more."

[Edited on October 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM. Reason : ]

10/19/2011 3:48:41 PM

well if it was far better cry, then I'd be an attention whore. I just can't win can I.

10/19/2011 10:25:33 PM

Carl!

10/19/2011 11:36:09 PM

True Story, the first time I heard the term "carlface" being used, I thought it was a reference to Apocalypse.

10/20/2011 3:01:30 PM

I didn't know I weighed so heavily on your mind.

10/21/2011 2:27:44 AM