User:Fightin' Phillie

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Matthew
Matthew is a Captain in the United States Air Force.

Games Played
The following games have had a profound impact on my Gaming Career:


 * Raptor: Call of the Shadows
 * Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game)
 * Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
 * Diablo II
 * Counter Strike Source
 * Fable
 * Battlefield 2
 * America's Army
 * Navyfield
 * N+
 * Mass Effect
 * Minecraft

Items Owned
I am proud to own the following items:


 * a Silver 2000 Chrysler Concorde LXi
 * a World Rally Blue 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX
 * an XBox 360
 * Merrell Ventilators

Organizations
I am or have been members of the following organizations (In chronological order by date joined):
 * Cub Pack 190 of Leinbach's, PA
 * Bern Township White Sox
 * Troop 190 of Leinbach's, PA
 * SV Intramural Basketball
 * Civil Air Patrol Squadron 811 in Reading, PA
 * SV German Club
 * Kittatinny Lodge V of the Order of the Arrow
 * SV Junior Varsity Volleyball
 * HMSR COPE Staff
 * RIT Computer Science Learning Community '04/'05
 * AFROTC Detachment 538
 * Col Andrew J Dougherty Squadron Arnold Air Society
 * Christian Soldiers Gaming Community

Places Visited/Attended
I have set foot upon the following or taken part of the following places, and they have significantly impacted my life:
 * Schuylkill Valley (SV)
 * Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation (HMSR)
 * Hawk Mountain Ranger School (HMRS)
 * World War II Weekend at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum
 * Philmont
 * Rochester Institute of Technology
 * Dover AFB
 * Ellsworth AFB
 * Maxwell AFB
 * Malmstrom AFB
 * Buckley AFB

Sports Venues Visited
I have witnessed America's enthusiasm for Competition at the following places:
 * Dover International Speedway
 * FirstEnergy Stadium
 * Busch Memorial Stadium
 * Veterans Stadium
 * Indianapolis Motor Speedway
 * Citizens Bank Park
 * Coors Field
 * Pepsi Center
 * 1st Bank Center

Military Vehicles
I have set foot upon, been inside, or held on to the following (in alphabetical order):


 * AC-47 Spooky
 * B-17 Flying Fortress
 * C-5 Galaxy
 * KC-10 Extender - have flown in
 * C-17 Globemaster III - have flown in
 * C-47 Skytrain
 * C-54 Skymaster
 * C-119 Flying Boxcar
 * C-124 Globemaster II
 * C-130 Hercules - have flown in
 * EC-130 Commando Solo
 * KC-135 Stratotanker - have flown in
 * F-4 Phantom II
 * HMMWV
 * M1A1 Abrams
 * M3 Half-track
 * M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck
 * Willys MB
 * UH-1 Huey
 * CH-47 Chinook - have flown in
 * P-2 Neptune

Civilian Vehicles
I have drove, passengered, or pushed the following (in alphabetical order):


 * Cessna 172 - have flown in Civil Air Patrol Orientation Flight
 * Cessna 182 - have flown in Civil Air Patrol Orientation Flight
 * 1969 Camaro RS - my brother's
 * 1988 Chevy S-10 - my father's, now my brother's - have driven
 * 1988 Chevrolet K5 Blazer - my brother's
 * 198? Chevrolet Celebrity Station Wagon - my parents'
 * 199? Chevy Suburban - my Scoutmaster's
 * 1999 Chevy S-10 ZR2 - my father's - have driven, rolled, and totaled
 * 2000 Chevy Blazer ZR2 - my father's - have driven
 * 2000 Chrysler Concorde LXi - have driven - currently own
 * 2007 Dodge Charger SXT - my mother's - have driven
 * 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX Premium (4 door) - have driven
 * 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX STI Limited #360/800 - have driven - have owned
 * 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX - have driven - currently own
 * EJ205 Engine
 * http://www.cardomain.com/ride/682074/2002-subaru-impreza/

Articles by Matthew
I originally started editing Wiki's at a Co-Op job at work. The company I work for had an internal wiki which I maintained, and I started editing other wiki's to become more proficient..

Pages Created by Matthew
I have originated the following pages, and monitor them accordingly:
 * User:Mjf3719
 * Leesport Lock House <-- My First Article
 * Hawk Mountain Ranger School
 * Civil Air Patrol Ranger
 * Civil Air Patrol Ranger Tape
 * Pennsylvania Wing Civil Air Patrol
 * Amy Courter
 * List of National Cadet Special Activities
 * User:Fightin' Phillie
 * PAWG (disambiguation)
 * Ranger Beads<-- My Newest Article

Templates and Infoboxes
These don't really count as articles, but I made them:
 * Template:Work of CAP

Pages Greatly Improved or Expanded Upon by Matthew
I have added content or made other noteworthy contributions to the following pages:
 * Hoss's Steak and Sea House
 * Park Point at RIT
 * Rochester Institute of Technology
 * 2008 Philadelphia Phillies season
 * 460th Space Wing
 * Category:Civil Air Patrol (and Subcategories)
 * National Cadet Special Activities
 * Civil Air Patrol
 * 2008 World Series
 * 2009 Philadelphia Phillies season
 * International Air Cadet Exchange
 * Awards and decorations of the Civil Air Patrol
 * Winnenden school shooting
 * RIT Ambulance
 * Schuylkill Valley School District
 * High Hopes (1959 song)
 * Mickey Morandini

Pages Minorly Edited by Matthew
I have have stopped maintaining this section, as it's a pain.

Pages Watched by Matthew
I proposed a change or contested something on the following pages, so I monitor them to see current progress (but do not watch them):
 * Merge of Broomball at Michigan Tech and Broomball
 * Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
 * United States Army Ranger
 * Supercruise
 * 2008 Abu Kamal raid
 * Do not want
 * Purdue AFROTC Detachment 220
 * Sky Watch -- Silly Brits; perhaps there's some way I can help this page?
 * Winnenden school shooting

Matthew's Current Articles in Progress
I am currently interested in the following articles, and intend on significantly adding to them: (This does not imply that article ownership)

Matthew's Up and Coming Articles
Although I'm mostly inactive, I am working on the following articles in my user space: (This does imply that I own these articles)
 * User:Fightin' Phillie/CAP Flight
 * User:Fightin' Phillie/Phillip Neuweiler
 * User:Fightin' Phillie/Civil Air Patrol rank structure
 * User:Fightin' Phillie/COWG Colorado Wing Civil Air Patrol

Matthew's Recommended Reading List

 * Battle of Chapultepec
 * John Levitow
 * George H. Gay, Jr.
 * Rocco Baldelli
 * USS Franklin (CV-13)
 * William Dyess
 * Battle of Narva (1944)
 * John Byng
 * Hugh Thompson, Jr.
 * Massacre of Elphinstone's Army

Pages Useful for Editing
I find the following pages especially useful for editing Wikipedia:
 * Citation templates
 * Template messages
 * Special:Upload - Wikipedia
 * Special:Upload - WikiMedia
 * Category:USGov PD license tags
 * Acronyms of the US Army


 * Essays
 * WP:BEAN
 * WP:IDIOT

A Message from Jimbo
"All those people who are obsessively writing about Britney Spears or 'The Simpsons' or Pokémon -- it's just not true that we should try to redirect them into writing about obscure concepts in physics...Wiki is not paper, and their time is not owned by us. We can't say, 'Why do we have these employees doing stuff that's so useless?' They're not hurting anything. Let them write it." -Jimbo Wales, as quoted in James Gleick, "Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt: In Alexandria, 650 Devotees Bemoan Vandals, Debate Rules; Deletionists vs. Inclusionists," The Wall Street Journal (August 8, 2008): W1.