OLD Mach 3 sim room

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:14 pm

Sandrat wrote:I'm kinda partial to the original Kosan scenario - the Theater Ops briefings for that rocked.

We did that one when I went to AC (assuming that it was the original). It was fun!

Sandrat · Post by **Sandrat** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:59 am

Kosan went through many iterations, but the T-Ops briefing and the resulting mission scenarios made the Mach III experience memorable. That was the whole intent.

ACluvR · Post by **ACluvR** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:47 pm

I did the Kosan T-Ops... I know I did it before they started doing the major changes (the bad, making T-Ops not T-Ops anymore changes, no offense if you like the newer way...). Being scared crudless by Grunt and Doolittle... add in some Balistic and a few others and it was quite a night to remember.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:29 am

I did the Kosan stuff in June of 02 which sounds like it was pretty close to the original at that point. I remember it being a blast even if i was possibly the worst navigator to ever enter the sim bay.

Repeat · Post by **Repeat** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:56 am

space nerd - you did Kosan in 02? I don't remember whether I did Kosan or not, but I thought they'd switched over to Ardan by then - maybe I'm wrong (or they had for my week, or I'm remembering the wrong year).

Sandrat · Post by **Sandrat** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:02 pm

Spanky will be back on later, but I'm pretty sure they were still flying Kosan in 2002 and switched to Ardan 2003/2004.

Who · Post by **Who** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:26 pm

Ardan made its first appearence Xmas camp '02 as a test market, then perfected for summer 2003.

Repeat · Post by **Repeat** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:55 pm

ok, then it was 2003 I remembered.

I went to Mach III in 2000 and 2001, took a break in 2002, and came back for 2003 and found a lot had changed.

Now I'm back as a counselor, and Ardan is still in place (though not for too much longer - I'm told next year will probably be a new one).

Spanky · Post by **Spanky** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:27 pm

Yeah we fought the KOSAN war from 1996 (X-MAS camp) until early-mid spring in 2004. We did run the first ARDAN missions in X-mas camp 2003 to try out the ideas and concepts and ploished them up that sping. Hostage worked his butt off on that stuff and turned out a good product.

To really make a great T-ops though, you need good characters....hince T-ops. We had characters built around the briefing.

In 1998, we even did a "Top Gun" T-ops where each one of the brifers became characters form the movie "Top Gun". From an entertaining stand point, this is still one of the greates T-ops ever.

Kosan was a combo war of Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War 1. It was really detailed at first and had several good "bad guys" that you could really focus on. Joker had his M3 team one week in full flight gear. We have tried that with other groups, but it is tough to outfit 60 kids with all of the gear.

Until next time....

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Tue May 09, 2006 2:31 pm

yea my mach III week in 03 was if i remember right the first team to do ardan to its full extent

Sandrat · Post by **Sandrat** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:19 pm

Spanky wrote:Joker had his M3 team one week in full flight gear. We have tried that with other groups, but it is tough to outfit 60 kids with all of the gear.

No, no, no, no, no.....

The best ever was when we graded the trainee's mission briefings for their final mission and the team dressed up in bedsheets and turbans, with duct tape patches with the name of a certain southwest-Asian nation whom we've invaded twice and briefed me.

And they had a moment of "prayer" and I very nearly lost my professional composure and busted out laughing. My stomach hurt for the only time in my life from laughing when I couldn't laugh.

ACluvR · Post by **ACluvR** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:54 pm

I think I was at the Christmas Camp where they changed it... I love Christmas Camp... its so much cooler than summer... in temperature at least, lol. Snow and airplanes are pretty (at least if you live in Florida)... Alrighty... I wanna go back...

Repeat · Post by **Repeat** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:10 pm

I haven't been to christmas camp ever, but I did arrive in Huntsville for spring training in mid-January - and I thought the weather was gorgeous. And it was still pretty nice when I came back in March...

The weather isn't bad until the summer, apparently.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:22 pm

Soccer wrote:space nerd - you did Kosan in 02? I don't remember whether I did Kosan or not, but I thought they'd switched over to Ardan by then - maybe I'm wrong (or they had for my week, or I'm remembering the wrong year).

The only reason i remember that it was Kosan for sure was that some kid asked if it was a real country... We promptly laughed at him.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:22 pm

Ah Summer in huntsville isnt so bad as long as you dont mind heat that could fry an egg on the sidewalk and humidity high enough to curl titanium. But hay whats so bad about that you look like you just took a shower any time you step outside for more than 5 minutes out of the shade. But it sure does make the lake feel good i know it did when i was at AC.

Repeat · Post by **Repeat** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:30 pm

I'm from the north east. I went further north east for college. need i explain to you that i melt when the temperature rises over 70??

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:32 pm

Ahaha. I'm from Michigan and I love the summers in Huntsville. We'll see how I like the summers in Arizona pretty soon. That's heat you could fry an egg on.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:32 pm

well i'm from the south and as bad as it gets here in VA in summer its 100 times worse in AL. In truth i dint think i could ever get use to that.

Repeat · Post by **Repeat** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:43 pm

i couldn't live in Huntsville without my AC - and I don't mean the red headed step child of Space Camp...

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:25 pm

yeah North Dakota to Alabama is pretty bad too, next year in Nashville will be tough enough. I don't know if I can survive without blizzards and windchills of -30.