Tornado Squadron Report #10 - 7th April 2001


Welcome to the weekly Tornado report everyone...including the TAC, who I'm sure is quivering in his boots as Mairin edges ever closer to his FCHG rank...:P


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Fleet News

Former Lord Ambassador, Admiral Quake, has been selected as Command Attache to XO/SA Kawolski...good luck Kweek :P

The full story of what happened to former GM Zoraan can be found here....http://io.emperorshammer.ca/article.php?sid=202&mode=threaded&order=0&thold=0 See, now it makes sense, doesn't it? :P

General Saquatch, longtime Wing Commander of Wing III (SSSD Sovereign) has retired...he has been awarded a Gold Star for his hard work during his tenure. His replacement is Lieutenant Colonel Sequoh Marden!

Two other Wing Commanders have recently been promoted; congratulations to Colonel Jeff Lorus (Wing II, SSD Avenger) and Colonel Badlands (Wing XI, ISD Immortal) - a former Tornado FM/FL! :)

XWA League III has ended, with Ranger squadron winning by nearly 30,000 points! Congrats to them :)

The IWATS Graphics course has started up again, courtesy of Typhoon CMDR, Commander Airyu! The URL is http://www.imperialacademy.org/graphics/


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Challenge News

Operation: Cantina Run III ended at the beginning of this month, and unfortunately the Challenge came...last. Ack :P (It's Ricaud's boys on the Relentless, I swear they're sabotaging our efforts :P)

COM/VA Corran Force is on leave until April 11th for his wedding and honeymoon...have fun CoFo ;P


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Squadron News

After much effort on the TIE Corps recruiting boards, we still have no signs of anyone joining Tornado...keep your eyes open for any easily manipulated Cadets on IRC :P (Though Kessler will probably get their first :P)

Mai has been busy flying...up until Darklord arrived at which point all contact was lost. We are trying to re-establish communication lines :P


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Competitions

Tornado vs Sword - Fly Free-TIE Mission #66
This ends today, and I don't have 4 pilot files sitting on my hard drive yet...granated, one of them's mine, but that's no excuse :P

But, seriously...just make sure you get your TFRs to me by tonight/early Sunday morning...any problems, just come to me ;)


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Activity Reports

CMDR/LC Hicks (1-1)
Flew Free-TIE Mission #150
Flew TC-TIE Battle #82
Flying Free-TIE Mission #66 for Tornado vs Sword
Updated Tornado website
Broken joystick = bad :P

FM/CPT Veers (2-2)
...
--> Fly Free-TIE #66!

FL/CPT Shakur (3-1)
Awarded an ISM for last month's activity
--> Fly Free-TIE #66!

FM/COL Mairin Astoris (3-2)
Passed IWATS Core course (92%)
Flew TC-TIE Battle #49
Flew TC-TIE Battle #50
Flew TC-TIE Battle #51
Flew TC-TIE Battle #15
Flew TC-TIE Battle #52
Flew TC-TIE Battle #53
Flew TC-TIE Battle #55
Flew TC-TIE Battle #82
Flew Free-TIE Mission #66 for Tornado vs Sword
Awarded a CoB (for flying 30+ missions)
Awarded an ISM for making Knight in FCHG rankings
Wrote a Free-TIE mission plotline for your's truly to make
--> Contact Mai to find out whatever she's smoking :P


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Squadron Roster
TORNADO SQUADRON OF WING X : Strike
COMMANDER: LC Hicks (coho@emperorshammer.ca) - #540
NICKNAME: DeathWind
BANNER: http://www.tiecorps.org/images/banners/tornado.jpg
MOTTO: Before Glory, Loyalty...Before Pride, Honor...Before Self, the Empire.
HOMEPAGE: http://www.btinternet.com/~gehall/tornado/
MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=39


FLIGHT I - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: The Missile Magnets
Motto: Fighter Pilots make movies... Bomber Pilots make History
1) LC Hicks (coho@emperorshammer.ca) - #540
2) TBA
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT II - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: The Brylcreem Boys
Motto: Kissing Ass And Taking Names
1) TBA
2) CPT Veers (edmond2000@freeuk.com) - #538
3) TBA
4) TBA

FLIGHT III - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: The High Priests of Love
Motto: We're the Love Commandos and this is a raid!
1) CPT Shakur (eightball08k@aol.com) - #290
2) COL Mairin Astoris (somnia_vacua@yahoo.com) - #1190
3) TBA
4) TBA






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Choon of the Week: Hear'Say...er, no wait...ahem :P

Lieutenant Colonel Michael "CoHo" Hicks
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CMDR/LC Hicks/Tornado/Wing X/ISD Challenge
SSx3/BSx6/PCx16/ISMx13/MoI/MoT-4rh-3gh/LoC-PSx32/MoC-9BoC/CoL/CoB/LoAx5/OV-2E [LGNR]
{IWATS-ICQ-IIC/1/2/3-M/1/2-RPG-SM/1/2-TT-XTT}
DJK (Sith)/Rogues, SC/DC-KC/BNB {SA:CORE}