Discord community · Veteran-run

Veteran-run and chill.Everybody has a voice.

Tactical shooters and survival games, /lfg squad rooms and a real Navy rank ladder. Vets, family and like-minded gamers from every branch (and none) welcome aboard.

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Crew members
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Games
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Navy ranks
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  1. 01

    Come aboard

    Hit Join, tap Verify, and you're a Recruit with full voice, chat and Go Live from day one.

  2. 02

    Pick your games

    Grab roles for the games you play. Their channels, updates and squads open up.

  3. 03

    Squad up

    Type /lfg or hop in ➕ Join to Create for an instant squad room you control.

  4. 04

    Earn your crow

    Time on deck earns XP. Make rate from Recruit to PO1 and unlock real perks along the way.

// 01 · Area of operations

The games we play

What the crew is playing most right now.

Top three games right now

  • #1 right now

    Extraction shooter

    WARDOGS

    Our home turf this season. Gold bar price posted nightly, Season 2 squads forming in /lfg.

    4 channels

  • #2 right now

    Tactical extraction

    Gray Zone Warfare

    Lamang Island ops with people who actually use comms. Key sharing for the crew.

    4 channels

  • #3 right now

    Co-op survival

    Valheim

    Build the longhouse, sail the swamp, argue over who lost the Draugr fang.

    3 channels

That's just the front line. The crew also runs tactical shooters like Squad, Ready or Not, Arma 3 and Escape from Tarkov; survival and crafting games like DayZ, SCUM, Project Zomboid and HumanitZ; builders and sims like Stormworks, Foundry and Stationeers; Motor Town when it's time to drive; and GTA V and ARC Raiders when it's time to cause trouble. There are 19 games with their own channels on the server, plus /lfg squad rooms for whatever you play. Join and find your squad →

// Featured clip · WARDOGS

You can't park that here 🚁

Meanwhile, back at base... 25 seconds of why we don't let just anybody fly the helo.

Posted by DD214 Gaming crew · 25s

Got a clip worth sharing? Post it in the server's #media forum (tag it clips or screenshots) and it lands here on the next build.

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From the crew's footage

// 02 · Plan of the day

Upcoming ops

Pulled from the server's Discord events. Times show in your time zone.

No ops on the calendar right now.

Events come straight from the Discord server's event list. PO2 and up can schedule one, so join, squad up, and put the next game night on the board.

// 03 · Advancement

The rank ladder

Recruit to PO1 is earned by showing up: XP from voice and chat. Chief and above are appointed by staff. Hours below are rough, voice-only estimates.

  1. Recruit Recruit

    53 aboard
    Verify on arrival
    • Post, share media and embeds, react, external emoji
    • Start public threads
    • Voice chat, Go Live streaming and the soundboard
    • /lfg and ➕ Join to Create voice rooms

  2. PO3 Petty Officer Third Class

    2 aboard
    ~5 h in voice · Level 5
    • Create polls
    • Start private threads
    • Send voice messages

  3. PO2 Petty Officer Second Class

    5 aboard
    ~25 h in voice · Level 12
    • Create Discord events for the crew

  4. PO1 Petty Officer First Class

    3 aboard
    ~80 h in voice · Level 22
    • ➕ Create Permanent: a voice room of your own that never auto-deletes
    • Staff applications: the apply channel and /apply
    • Priority Speaker

  5. Chief Chief Petty Officer

    1 aboard
    Staff-appointed
    • A seat in the Chiefs' Mess and the Goat Locker
    • Staff Ops channels and logs
    • Create server invites

  6. Senior Chief Senior Chief Petty Officer

    1 aboard
    Staff-appointed
    • Moderation tools
    • The bot-log channel
    • Use external apps

  7. Master Chief Master Chief Petty Officer

    1 aboard
    Staff-appointed
    • Server administration
    • Upload server emoji and stickers
    • The admin-only channels

  8. MCPON Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

    1 aboard
    The owner's billet
    • Full command of the server

Every promotion comes with a Navy-style advancement letter from Command. Fair winds and following seas.

// 04 · Chiefs' Mess

The crew

Chief and above run the ship. Need a hand? ModMail reaches them privately.

  • ⚓GhostWalker

    Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

  • TrueWillis

    Master Chief Petty Officer

  • Raider

    Senior Chief Petty Officer

  • Scorp40

    Chief Petty Officer

// 05 · Top of the watch bill

Leaderboard

Top 3 by all-time XP.

  1. 2

    ⚓GhostWalker

    Level 37

    142,041 XP

  2. 1

    Raider

    Level 45

    208,032 XP

  3. 3

    TrueWillis

    Level 22

    49,089 XP

// 06 · Coming soon

Stream with the crew

The DD214 streamer kit is in the works: a Streamer role, auto #live-now shout-outs when you go live, your own tracked invite link, and a "Streaming from DD214" panel for your channel.

Stream on Twitch, YouTube or Kick? Join now and you'll be first in line when it launches.

There's a seat in the squad.

Whether you served, love someone who did, or just want teammates who use comms: you're welcome here.

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