When was the last time you or a family member deliberately tried to start the Third World War?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

My father: 1948

Me: 1999

[Bloodporne]

Does an attempt to make WWII continue count as kinda...rolling into WWIII?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Bloodporne said:

Does an attempt to make WWII continue count as kinda...rolling into WWIII?

 

I'll allow that.

[Bloodporne]

Just now, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

I'll allow that.

My great-grandfather: 1945

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Bloodporne said:

My great-grandfather: 1945

 

 

My father requested permission to shoot down Soviet fighters during the Berlin Airlift and I requested permission to fire on Russian troops in Kosovo in 1999.  Did your great-grandfather refuse to surrender after May 1945?

[stepee]

o_O

[Bloodporne]

7 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

My father requested permission to shoot down Soviet fighters during the Berlin Airlift and I requested permission to fire on Russian troops in Kosovo in 1999.  Did your great-grandfather refuse to surrender after May 1945?

He attempted to refuse from what I was told, got his leg mangled for it and then ended up in a Gulag in Siberia for 9 years. Furthermore, and unrelated but wild, he ended up in a relationship with one of the female guards and had two children with her, ultimately returning to his hometown with her and the two children in tow upon his release. Two years into living back there he happened to run into my great-grandmother whom he had presumed dead and vice versa. Awkward!

 

Also as a sidenote, I can only imagine the hideous war crimes the man committed so I'm actually thankful I know few details. It's bad enough as it is.

 

Edit: I wasn't aware you had been in combat, not that I think I should've been but still. Army or? I was supposed to sign up for the Airforce two days after 9/11. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Edit: I wasn't aware you had been in combat, not that I think I should've been but still. Army or? I was supposed to sign up for the Airforce two days after 9/11. 

 

Yep - it's the Army, but there was no actual combat for ground forces in Kosovo by the time I got involved as the NATO campaign against the Serbs was entirely an air-based operation.

 

This is the incident in which I was involved.

[Bloodporne]

5 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Yep - it's the Army, but there was no actual combat for ground forces in Kosovo by the time I got involved as the NATO campaign against the Serbs was entirely an air-based operation.

 

This is the incident in which I was involved.

Interesting, I'll read up on this later actually. My cousin was in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) at the time and involved somehow but I have no idea about the details. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

Interesting, I'll read up on this later actually. My cousin was in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) at the time and involved somehow but I have no idea about the details. 

 

Oh, my family is well familiar with the Luftwaffe...

 

...my father shot down quite a few of 'em from 1940 to 1945

 

 

[Fizzzzle]

Other than my dad serving during 'nam (not IN, he was chair force that never left the country from like '68-'74), all of my family missed most major conflicts. My grandfather served as some kind of code breaker kinda thing towards the end of the Korean war. Other than that, everyone was too young or too old to serve during the world wars. Or really any major conflict since the civil war.