No, Zandor, Lapa has never been in a squad until now.
SB467, however, has been a M.O.M since the beginning. He doesn't use the forum often and so has never adopted the tag but he is one of the Original Six Plus Six Plus One. Get to know your squad's roster fercrissakes.
We're beginning to backslide into the self-congratulatory trap again, way too much thread space devoted to who's "the best", who scored nineteen thousand kills in a Capture the Carrier mission single-handed against a revolving door of all several hundred morafs...at once. (that had to be a glitch) Particularly the Mutual Admiration (and Auto-Erotic-Self-Admiration) Societies. The M.O.M thread, and for that matter the M.O.M squad, has never been about chest (t)humping. An occasional nod is fine, of course. But we hide our lights under big bushels of bullets. We hide our ego-faces behind masks of stupidity. We defy people to distinguish the face from the mask. We can't, why should they be able to?
The thread is a year-long series of non sequitors intended to baffle and confound...even ourselves. Ask Paul and Dent. Ask Zandor, or just pick up a copy of the trade paperback edition of his collected posts. It's a real page-turner, all five pages of it.
Screen caps of monster scores. Meh.
Find something funny on the web, preferably something having nothing to do with Dogfight. Post that. (Ask Paul for tips.) We know you're good or you wouldn't be in this squad. We also know that as long as Brian Strachan can press a fire button with his one remaining finger, you are not "the best". And for every one of us there're half a dozen non-M.O.M Stormbringerfasts, D~x~Ps, Enzos, Rickenfakers and 420s who are waiting to teach you/me/us a few tricks. There's a guy called mschumacher who can snap the neck of anyone here, and all he cares about is chasing your tail. Not long ago I had to tell him that yes, you do get points for tanking a carrier. Now that, my friends, is a dedicated chaser. Think you can take him down? Unless you're SB467, good luck with that.
In short; Be All You Can Be. When That Plan Flops, Be a M.O.M.
Now where the f**k is my CAKE?
Rw