Today this blog I have made will be about why I am pretty much here, and why all my content that I post is primarily military related. Such as the tanks, planes, jets, helicopters, bases etc. Well to tell you that I must first tell you a little about myself. I am student in High School who currently takes part in CAP (Civil Air Patrol) and AFJROTC (Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps). I firstly joined these groups because well first, my goal when I get older is to become a United States Air Force Airman, so being apart of an auxiliary unit in the Air Force sorta builds up to that goal. I love being in groups like these because firstly I get to make bonds and friendships with people that can be unique at times. As well I get to have what would be for many, a once and a lifetime experiences. Such as going to the local Air Force Base and getting a tour of Fighter Jets such as the F-22 Raptor and getting to meet the men and women who pilot such aircraft.

I build military related things in Minecraft, because first of all at the time I started not to many people did. When I did build military vehicles I built them with passion. I sometimes made 10 different models of the same aircraft just so I can make the perfect one. Combining parts of each different one into the final model, making what I thought to be the most pleasing way I can build it. I read books on certain military operations that I started building adventure maps for. (Spoiler: Which I haven't posted any of, so they're still being built) I love building what I do, being able to fit inside the vehicles I build and fire off the gun systems I put in them is just a very fun experience. Not to mention have people use and play with my work the same as I did, it just always manages to make me happy inside.

I was able to look at new advanced military aircraft, and say "I can build that into Minecraft". That alone can be a good reason for what I do in Minecraft. Now I'm going to be frank with myself here, my imagination isn't the most broadest thing on earth. I say this because I don't build things out of my imagination, I build things that already exist and that I can sorta copy off of them from images. However that's for you to decide though whether I have a strong imagination or not.

I'll tell you though I didn't start getting good at Minecraft over night. I first started off building bases and ships (That we're bad) It was a very tedious and long process when I started playing Minecraft in 2011. The first thing I ever built in Minecraft was this cobblestone square skyscraper that went up to limit of the sky. Then the first military thing I started building was a destroyer that I put a TNT cannon too and added things like the bridge, living quarters, engine room, control room, etc. It doesn't look the best but I enjoyed making it very much. It's play factor was high due to the ability to fire off the TNT cannon over and over again, which was very fun. Anyway as you can see I have built many things in Minecraft military related that none of you know about, and if you we're to see them you wouldn't be very impressed. It was definitely a learning curve when I started though, and if I wasn't driven to play by things like the internet then I for sure wouldn't be typing up this blog right now. Hey I wouldn't have even posted one of these creations to the internet if it wasn't for a couple things.

One of the first things that got me to start playing Minecraft was a youtube commentator. His name was SeaNanners, yes SeaNanners got me started playing Minecraft. One day after watching a video of SeaNanners playing Minecraft I decided to google Minecraft. The first thing that popped up on Google was this awesome video of a guy who built the most epic thing in Minecraft I have ever seen at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn2-d5a3r94 (This is the video) I was so amazed I decided to get the free version of Minecraft and I went to the server that this build was on. It was the first time I played Minecraft and I was on the bridge of the USS Enterprise 1:1 scale. It was the most awesome thing ever I thought I had seen in a game. So then I just went from there, started to build towers and hotels. Then I bought the full version of the game and I still have the original world in which I started on playing in. It has skyscrapers, army bases, radio beacons, prisons, destroyers, submarine base, submarines, military research base, bridges, control centers, pirate ships, helicopters. None of by the way looked that good, they actually look relatively bad, but slightly ok I suppose. For me though it was a start, and this game changed me a lot. I kept all of what I did secret and didn't tell anybody that I played video games, such as Minecraft. Mostly because I didn't want girls to see me as a nerd or anything. Secretly I am a nerd though, a BIG nerd. I mean I watch ALL of E3 from Spike, Machinima, an IGN. This year will be the 3rd time I've watched E3 in my life and I can't wait. A lesson I learned from doing all this video game related stuff though is to just not care, what others think of you. It didn't really matter though if girls knew I played Minecraft though, because later on I found out that a lot at my school in Middle School played it too. :D

This game means a lot to me though, I play it like a past time, and enjoy it like a new puppy. I just wanna say if you look down upon me just know firstly that I don't care 1 penny if you do, but also that we have a lot in common because we're both big fans of Minecraft. Just remember though to do what you love, because I know I will.

Thanks For Reading.

Written by Alexander, aka STEALTHy.