Hey Squadron Report for April 9th through April 16th 2002.

Hey Hey! It's time for another Hey Squadron Report. We've got a lot of GREAT news to cover, so let's do it!

SQUADRON NEWS
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Hmm, where to start.

LCM Dan Jenkins has been appointed the new Flight Leader of Two Flight. Congratulations!

LT Razor has been awarded an ISM for excellent service. He's been flying lots of battle and doing extremely well in his IWATS courses. Congratulations! Keep up the great work!

LT Razor, LCM Dan Jenkins and LCM Maw'la have all been awarded the Commendation of Bravery. Congratulations guys!

Oh yeah. I'm number two in our wing for FCHG rank again. Yay!

LCM Alhana Creed is still on leave.

WING NEWS
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Some really great news here. Vav Squadron has re-opened has the home of the Wing III Old-Timers...er, Veterans. :) Welcome back to Wing III fellas. I'll buy you a round of Geritol or some other old-folks drink. :P

Aleth Squadron's new CMDR should be announced next week.

That's all I can really think of. I did read Jahan's wing report this morning, but I'm too lazy right now to punch it up again. :)

FLEET NEWS
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Well, as you can see below, current Prae CMDR and former Wing IIIer CM Loor has been promo'ed to Captain. Congrats Loor!
Praetorian Commander Promoted
11:13 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com]
Something I missed in my report: Congratulations to the PraeCMDR, Commander Loor, who I've promoted to the rank of Captain. Since his appointment as Commander of the Elite Praetorian Squadron, he's performed his duties consistently and admirably. Congrats Loor and thank you!

New (Old) Baron
10:52 - COL Brucmack [bjmacken@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]
Carl Lost has found his Baron title back again... Just thought I'd announce that so that people might stop congratulating me on a very short term title :P

I'd also like to thank Striker for at least giving me half a week before approving Carl's new high scores ;)

TIE Corps Battlegroups Commander Resigns
04:04 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com]
As many of you will know by now, a couple of days ago, Admiral Mell announced his decision to step down as BGCOM of the TIE Corps Battlegroup. During the time he held the position, Mell proved himself many times over to be one of the hardest working and most dedicated people in the EH, and we're all sorry to lose him.

A new BGCOM will be announced very shortly - please do NOT send me any applications for the position.

Sunday · April 14 · 2002

Wing IX WC
06:40 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com]
After due consideration and reading through several excellent applications, a new Wing Commander for Wing IX has been selected. Congratulations to Major Mosh!

Wing XVIII
06:37 - FA Priyum Patel [spellfire@btinternet.com]
Due to real life obligations, Major Talek Dei has stepped down as Wing Commander of Wing XVIII. In his place, we welcome back to the position Lieutenant Colonel Fenn Logan. Congratulations!

Saturday · April 13 · 2002

Site status update
02:24 - SA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au]
I've gone through and fixed up all the code-related issues (I think). However, there may still be some bugs hiding somewhere. If you do run into an error, the information in the previous news posting still applies.

Friday · April 12 · 2002

The site problems
23:03 - SA Astatine [jpboyce@indigo.net.au]
About 12 hours ago, the server hosting the TIE Corps site experienced a hardware failure. As things in IT tend to snowball, there was an issue with the backups. Fortunately, the database is hosted on a totally seperate machine and all the files been restored. On the down side, there is an error with the code responsible for talking to the database. This code will give an error similar to this:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
/rosters/combatratings.asp, line 83

In addition, to this, there is another main error message, which is relating to permissions being denied. I am working as fast as I can to fix these errors. If you encounter an error, do not come on IRC or email me with "it doesn't work!". This wastes my time as it could be literally hundreds of possible things making it "not work". Instead, be useful and include the following items:

The exact error message you got
The URL of the page you were accessing
What you were doing prior to the error coming up
This information allows me to directly target which file could be the problem (and there's thousands on here). Hopefully, I'll have the site up and running in the next few hours.

Wednesday · April 10 · 2002

New Baron
10:24 - FA Striker [striker@tiecorps.org]
Colonel Brucmack has just become the new Baron! This title recognizes the pilot holding the most high scores.. but beware, Captain Carl Lost hasn't said his last word...

SQUADRON ACTIVITY
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CPT Josh Popelka: Flew XWA-FREE #63 for WRT
E-mail and MB activity

LCM Dan Jenkins: Completed IWATS-SM/2 with 100%
Promoted to FL of Two Flight
E-mail and MB activity

LCM Maw'la: E-mail and MB Activity

LT Razor: Flew XWA-TC #3-19

SQUADRON ORDERS
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Keep up the good work everyone. Keep up the communication, the flying all that stuff.

We need to get some new pilots in the squadron. Recruit anyone you know in RL that is interested in Star Wars. I'd like to challenge Vav Squadron, but we need one more pilot. :)

SQUADRON ROSTER
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HEY SQUADRON OF WING III : Interdiction
COMMANDER: CPT Josh Popelka (ehj_popelka@hotmail.com)
NICKNAME: The Demon Guard
MOTTO: Darkness is our element.
HOMEPAGE: http://www.hey.wing3.net/
MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=26&v=0&s=0

FLIGHT I - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: The Enraged
Motto: You play with fire, you're gonna get burned!
1) CPT Josh Popelka (ehj_popelka@hotmail.com)
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT II - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: The Hot Hands
Motto: So good we ought to be illegal
1) LCM Dan Jenkins (4jenkins@prodigy.net)
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT III - ASSAULT GUNBOAT
Nickname: Blades of Desire
Motto: Beautiful to behold, sweet to the touch, death to our enemies!
1) LCM Alhana Creed (vanryan@wp.pl)
2) LCM Maw'la (abxywing@netzero.net)
3) LT Razor (razor_master@hotmail.com)
4) TBA

I think that about covers it for this week. Keep up the great work.

Thanks,

Captain Josh Popelka
Hey Squadron Commander
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