For the new guys here the short version of me.
My name i Nick i am 32 years old. I have been roleplaying since I was 7 years old and I still remember my first roleplaying session! I have been a GM regularly since the age of 12. I have run several online RPGs, none as long as this one though. The first online RPG I participated in was USCMPBEM (play by email as opposed to USCMRPG who plays over forum) run by Chris Deale.
I was 16 years old and I played in that for two years before it died. Me and another Veteran USCM player and close friend of mine Tash (Natasha) started USCMRPG late 2005 as I needed something to put my thoughts into as my mother was dying in cancer - My mother passed silently in late 2006. The game had by then expanded greatly and at one time we (me and Pale Rider) were running two platoons simulateanously. We also created a rules set for the game, independantly developed. Somewhere along the way things got way too complicated and I took the hard decision to use the Aliens Adventure Game instead - Which cost us a few players but it was that or cardiac arrest for the GM. Pale Rider lost his work and had to leave as GM. I ran the game for a period up until a year ago when it was either let go or kill the game. Quinn and Max stepped up. Now I am taking the GM torch again as things are looking much better on the work front for me.
So what do I do when I don't GM:
I work as a police officer and mainly as a narcotics police, with a few warrants in between. I am also a first tier weapons instructor which means I teach police students and train police weapon instructors. I am also a member of the special police tactics units which a little simplified are a kind of riot police minus the shields. I have also served in a military light infantry unit for short period of time, but no active duty in a combat zone - But I at least I have some military experience so I think I can get the "feel" right
On my free time (which have been zero for a long time, but things are looking way better now) I train krav maga (Israeli army close combat system) and read books about world war 2. I also like writing and thinking up stories that just end up laying around on my HDD collecting electronic dust...
That was the short version of me.
//Nick the GM