A little history about my partner and I; Slick and I met in 1996 at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Japan.  Slick is a "callsign" he goes by as we are both former F-15C pilots.  We hit it off right away having many of the same interests.  Plus I needed someone who could help me with my IT problems!  Eventually I got my callsign, which was Guido, and we proceeded to have many adventures over the next 20 years.  We always kept in touch, and often while sitting around late at night with a cocktail and a bar to hold us up we cogitated.  It was many nights and many bars.

We cogitated on life, on the Air Force, and on all manner of things that you tend to sort out while in your cups.  Sometimes we even figured we should write it down on a Bar Napkin.  If we ever managed to actually do that, we must have lost those napkins, or perhaps they were used to clean up in the morning.  One of the subjects that continually came up was how incredibly bad some emerging tech was implemented in the Air Force, especially in the realm of IT and training.  We always figured we'd do it better if we had the chance.

Meanwhile we honed our experience and knowledge of training processes by instructing people how to fly the F-15C Eagle.  If you really want to learn how to parse what is important in training and systems integration, and what is superfluous, there is little better place to do it than training in Air to Air Combat.  When the stakes are that high, and the job that potentially dangerous, separating the chaff from the wheat becomes a matter of life and death.  It can make you a very serious person, but it can also help you appreciate the frivolous both for what it is, and for what it does.  Fun is important, and there are few professions who take their fun as seriously as a fighter pilot.  Because they understand all too well what is not fun.

That of course is a bit heavy for a fledgling gaming company; but it's central to how we are proceeding.  The point is that what was learned in the classrooms, simulators, while deployed and in the jet gives one a very clear focus of what is important.  More significantly it strips away many pretensions and fosters a need and desire to learn from mistakes.  Honest self, peer and supervisory assessment of your performance is how you improve, and for us, how we stayed alive.  Along the way then, we learned how to train hard, in what was essentially a career of "war gaming".  We lived, breathed and ate tactics to grand strategy as applied to our flying and Air Force career.  As we progressed, we continued to love gaming, even if it was often approached with a rather serious edge.  If you want to meet a competitor, who will compete at virtually anything, find a fighter pilot.

Of course life happened along the way.  Children, our wives careers and many other of the familiar life events we all navigate came and went.  Now we find ourselves 20 years from that meeting in 1996.  It's all culminating in a new beginning.  Experience collected, earned and now implemented as we take 1212Gaming from an egg state to eventually, a full grown company.  Join us as we aviate and navigate through this new adventure. 

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