Welcome to yet another Wing Report from Wing III, the roughest, toughtest, meanest TIE pilots in the west ... ... err, on the Sov! Have a seat and we'll get right down to business.
Wing III Stats
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Aleth - 9
Beth - 11
Gimel - 10
Daleth - 8
Hey - 0 (Inactive)
Vav - 0 (Inactive)
Flag Officer (The guy with all the liquor and guns) - 1
Total: 39 (-1 from last week) :-/
Position Moves (6.26.00 -- 7.02.00)
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FM/SL Rapper / Daleth : Promoted to Lieutenant! (Congrats!)
TRN/CT Jaxon Farpell : Completes training, assigned to Daleth Squad
FM/SL Jyris Felth / Beth : Promoted to Lieutenant! (Congrats!)
FM/LT Roland / Daleth : Retired to the TC Reserves due to sudden lack of a computer ...
FM/LT Azzorean / Aleth : Transfers to Ghost Squadron ... somewhere in the BattleGroups ;-)
Awards 'n' Stuff
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The Medal of Tactics (MoT) has been awarded to :
- LCM Herman (w/ Red Hammer)
The Commendation of Service (CoS) has been awarded to :
- LCM Herman
Wing III News - "Give us a second and we'll give you the Sov"
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- Of course, the really big news this week is that the Flight Officer, AD NightHawk, has been forced into retirement by RL difficulties. I didn't know NightHawk personally, I didn't serve under him very long ... but still, it seemed like he had the makings of a good FO. And now, the search for a newer, stronger Flight Officer has begun ... and COM "CCK" Kramer can, once more, politely refuse the job ;-)
- Until a new FO is announced, HA Kawolski has been named as the acting FO. This just in from him :
As you may have read from Former FO Nighthawk's letter, his 24-hour window to
get everything in line has been cut short as his e-mail address is already
deactived. In the meantime, Grand Admiral Ronin has asked me to be the
Acting Flight Officer until a replacement is found.
So please send your e-mail that you would normally send to the Flight Officer
... transfers, subgroup counts, promotion requests, e-mail address changes,
etc. to me.
- MSEs for June!!! Kudos to CPT Daniel Kamprath, who had Daleth's MSE on my desk even BEFORE the July 1st deadline!!! CMDRs, get these to me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I don't want to send in our evaluation in the middle of the month again ...
- Operation : BlackHawk, the Beth Squadron Wargaming Experience (TM), continues! This week, Werda's 'British Galactic Empire' found out that a whole bunch of people are going to be gunning for them just because they are currently the biggest, baddest alliance of forces out there. Also, it would appear that a quite a few guns-for-hire would be more than happy to start shooting at the BGE, as long as they are recieving their credits. In other news, colonists on the Black Quasar regional-homeworld, Optimus, are preparing to celebrate "Freedom Day". In a huge cosmic coincidence, this is pretty much the same thing as America's "Independence Day"! They even occur on the same date! Wow, what are the odds against THAT?
- BlackHawk online rules available at library section of the Beth Website : http://beth.squadron.org
- 'Run-on' in progress at the Daleth MB : http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?BoardID=115103
- 'Morale-Thread' started on the W3 MB : http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?Action=Display&BoardID=105828
- LCM Herman appointed as Daleth Comm Officer ;-)
- LCM Egg'Foo appointed as Daleth XO ;-)
- Finally, after months of waiting ... a new item for you to give your opinion on at the TIE Corps survey center!!! Go log in and submit your answer (okay ... so maybe it IS a pretty lame question ... just be happy you have any input at all!)
- Beth CMDR Sequoh Marden recently offered an ISM to any Beth member who could beat his high score for CR#4 of the XWA league! Results forthcoming.
- Aleth Weekly Battle program started by CMDR Jahan Kalar to encourage activity and earn citations. This week : IW-XWA #22.
- CM Jahan Kalar appointed as Recon Office Assistant! Congrats, Jahan!
- This little item turned up in the latest Flight Office report (BEFORE NightHawk was forced into retirement) :
The Battlegroups struck back, however (okay, pardon the lame movie title pun :P) when the ISD Immortal and Wing XI defeated the Sov's Wing III.
Ugh ... don't remind us. FA Kramer, I've ordered a case of Sprite to be delivered to your quarters, as per our 'agreement' ...
- Beth Squad's CPT Werdna 'King' Elbee recently "shocked the universe" by requesting a positional-demotion to Flight Member. His explanation was that FLs are most often considered for promotion to CMDR ... and since he isn't leaving Beth anytime soon, he didn't want to deny anyone the opportunity. Werdna also continues to deny that he stepped down because some 'compromising pictures' managed to find their way into the hands of Beth CMDR, Sequoh Marden ... but we know the truth ;-) (j/k)
- Beth's LCM Cray Mikalen is currently working on the Wing III Uniform Archive!!! He reports that uniforms are now completed for everyone except Daleth Squad, and those are being worked on even now!
Wing III Orders
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- Thanks to LCM Van of Daleth Squad, the Wing III 'Top Gun' competition can finally begin!!! All pilots be sure to fly the attached, BRAND NEW XWA Free Mission. Remember, the winner of the competition will recieve glory, honor, bragging rights, recognition on the webpage (eventually), Ops in all W3 IRC meetings, and ... oh yeah ... an Imperial Security Medal ;-)
Van is disqualified for obvious reasons, but he will soon recieve a MoT-gh anyway! A blank pilot file is not included in the .ZIP file, so just rename the .PLT file that comes with any other Free mission. Deadline is July 31st, so get flying!!! You have PLENTY of time to complete this ONE free mission, so I expect massive participation (read : 75% or better). Also, the hunt for next month's original mission to fly has now begun!
- XWA League CR#5 will be announced soon ... keep your fighters warmed up!
- Sovereign Squadron League (for TIE Disk/CD/95 pilots only) : The next CR is TC-TIE 155, deadline is July 15th!
- Standing Orders : Recruit!!! Aleth CMDR Jahan Kalar has a very interesting idea for this department ... the Wing III Mentoring Program for pilots on the Training Platform. Stay tuned, details are being hammered out ...
Wing III Quote of the Week (Admit it ... you missed this last week, didn't you?)
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"Rolling, rolling, rolling...RAWHIDE!!! YAH!!!" -- CPT Werdna Elbee during the latest W3 IRC meeting ... I guess you had to be there ;-)
Other notable quotes from ... the last two weeks :
"... Still very, very, very BAD." -- MAJ Sequoh Marden successfully evaluates our performance during the competition with the ISD Immortal
"Hehe...I never knew that we are flying SILE BOATS like announced in the roster..." -- Sequoh makes ONE mistake in the last Beth report, and he will never live it down
"This is an error I added willingly to see how well you all read my squadeon reports!!! Really!" -- Nice try Sequoh ... but what is a 'squadeon', exactly?
Misc.
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- Bumper sticker recently found on the back of a W3 TIE Advanced : "How's my ruthless destruction? Dial 1-800-W3 KILL U"
Okay, that's it for this week. Fly high and watch your six ... but mostly, just fly!!!
WC/COL Sasquatch / Wing III / SSSD Sovereign
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