Oh hey, another thing that's a thing.
I would say my longest lasting friendship would be my old reg leader Anarchy/Anarkey (original name, I know,) who I met in May of 2013. Him and I followed each other for a few regs until he formed his own (the Nr. 2.) I stayed in the reg for about seven months until it essentially died out in March of 2014, but even after leaving I stayed in contacted with him and would semi-regularly play games with him. He tried making a new regiment, the Nr. 4, in July (?) of 2014, which died almost immediately, and stopped playing NW after that point, citing the game as boring and the community cancerous (rip anyone reading this.)
He's going into the marines (specifically artillery I believe), so I don't hear from him as much as I use to for obvious reasons. I'm hoping he'll have fun blowing Jihadis to the moon, Yee Haw!