Excalibur Squadron OOC 2: The Song Remains the Same

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Oh, he's got a lot of things to do beforehand!
Like...take care of any potential witnesses to any hypothetical wrongdoing...
*eyes Carter*

Meh. I'd not be too worried about what Carter says, to be honest. Though killing a defenceless, pro-German, enemy is absolutely within Stanford's character, it's one Officer's word against another of equal rank. There's no proof, other than Carter's word, that there was any wrong doing. On top of that, Stanford is relatively veteran member of the squadron, with an impressive combat record (which includes sustaining severe wounds in the face of the enemy). Accusing him would be a very serious thing to do.

The worry would be what Alix, as Page's favourite and Stanford's senior officer, does. That might cause some problems for everyone's favourite murdering officer.

It's an interesting question. I genuinely wonder what would happen if it was brought up before a military court - maybe Page would take Alix seriously (oh who am I kidding, of course he would), but it strikes me as pretty likely that nobody outside the Excalibur bubble would.
Hell, the SOE probably wouldn't even ALLOW it to go to a military court, what with secrets and stuff.

[Morrdh]

Slightly belated...

26th July 1940

Shipping off Isle of Wight attacked.
Night: Mines laid in the Severn and Thames.
Losses: RAF 2, German 2

[United Kingdom of Poland]

I wonder what Gavins (or what ever Cuntlers lemmings...I mean aids name is) would react to Polanski asking what he thinks royces responce would be if he found out his subordinate had ordered a medically unfit man back into possible front line action.

[Morrdh]

27th July 1940

Dover harbour attacked twice. Belfast, Wick and Plymouth bombed.
Night: SW England attacked.
Losses: RAF 1, German 4

[Grenartia]

I've got some major writers' block right now.

[Morrdh]

On this day in history 27 July 1944 -The first operational sortie by an RAF Gloster Meteor Mk1 Jet Fighter, exclaimed in the squadron log as ‘History is made!’ An anti-diver patrol (after the way the V1 rockets flamed out then dropped from the sky) is flown by Flying Officer Bill McKenzie RCAF of 616 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, based at RAF Manston in Kent. He later shot down a V1 on 16 Aug 1944 as the report confirms:

Consolidated Diver Report
616 Squadron, Manston

F/O W. McKenzie, R.C.A.F. 16 August 1944

After an uneventful scramble, F/O McKenzie was about to land at Manston when Control (Kingsley 11) passed information that Divers were coming in. F/O McKenzie was sent back to orbit approximately 5 miles S.E. Ashford at 3000 ft. One Diver was seen flying on a course of 320 degrees at 1000 ft, at speed of approximately 360 mph. F/O McKenzie positioned to 700 yards behind and 500 ft below Diver at approximately 0938 hrs. A Mustang was seen to attack from line astern and fire from 250 yards. No strikes were observed and the Diver continued on a straight and level course. The Mustang then pulled upwards and broke away. Immediately F/O McKenzie attacked from astern at range of 400 yards and fired a 4 second burst. Strikes were seen all over Diver and starboard wing fell off. Diver then rolled over on its back and went down to explode on ground approximately 6 miles southeast of Maidstone at approximately 0940 hours. This position and time has now been confirmed by Royal Observer Corps at Maidstone.

CLAIM: 1 Diver destroyed by F/O W. McKenzie (R.C.A.F.)
SQUADRON: 616 Squadron AIRCRAFT: Meteor Mk I
CALL SIGN: Hugo 19 WEATHER: Hazy, visibility 5 miles
TIME UP: 0910
TIME DOWN: 0950

[Goram]

On this day in history 27 July 1944 -The first operational sortie by an RAF Gloster Meteor Mk1 Jet Fighter, exclaimed in the squadron log as ‘History is made!’ An anti-diver patrol (after the way the V1 rockets flamed out then dropped from the sky) is flown by Flying Officer Bill McKenzie RCAF of 616 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, based at RAF Manston in Kent. He later shot down a V1 on 16 Aug 1944 as the report confirms:

Consolidated Diver Report
616 Squadron, Manston

F/O W. McKenzie, R.C.A.F. 16 August 1944

After an uneventful scramble, F/O McKenzie was about to land at Manston when Control (Kingsley 11) passed information that Divers were coming in. F/O McKenzie was sent back to orbit approximately 5 miles S.E. Ashford at 3000 ft. One Diver was seen flying on a course of 320 degrees at 1000 ft, at speed of approximately 360 mph. F/O McKenzie positioned to 700 yards behind and 500 ft below Diver at approximately 0938 hrs. A Mustang was seen to attack from line astern and fire from 250 yards. No strikes were observed and the Diver continued on a straight and level course. The Mustang then pulled upwards and broke away. Immediately F/O McKenzie attacked from astern at range of 400 yards and fired a 4 second burst. Strikes were seen all over Diver and starboard wing fell off. Diver then rolled over on its back and went down to explode on ground approximately 6 miles southeast of Maidstone at approximately 0940 hours. This position and time has now been confirmed by Royal Observer Corps at Maidstone.

CLAIM: 1 Diver destroyed by F/O W. McKenzie (R.C.A.F.)
SQUADRON: 616 Squadron AIRCRAFT: Meteor Mk I
CALL SIGN: Hugo 19 WEATHER: Hazy, visibility 5 miles
TIME UP: 0910
TIME DOWN: 0950

I see you also follow the RAF on Facebook

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Back in town, and nothing else to do. Expect some action tonight.

[Monfrox]

Just schooled some guy in the ODST thread who thought that heavier rifle rounds inflict more damage.

Pulled out the old 7.62 vs. 5.45 file and let him have it.

[Organized States]

Literally the best Nose Art I've ever seen...

[Monfrox]

Literally the best Nose Art I've ever seen...
(Image)

That's fantastic.

[Organized States]

Literally the best Nose Art I've ever seen...
(Image)

That's fantastic.

I got a good laugh out of it.

[Morrdh]

28th July 1940

Attack on Dover by 50 enemy bombers and 50 fighters driven off by two Hurricane and two Spitfire squadrons. South coast ports bombed.
Night: Attacks on Wales, Scotland, Midlands and north of England.
Losses: RAF 5, German 15

[Kouralia]

Just schooled some guy in the ODST thread who thought that heavier rifle rounds inflict more damage.

Pulled out the old 7.62 vs. 5.45 file and let him have it.

As a general rule of thumb... they do.

EDIT: If by 'heavier' you mean 'bigger'.

[Grenartia]

Literally the best Nose Art I've ever seen...
(Image)

You're ok, newbie. I don't care what they say.

[Organized States]

Literally the best Nose Art I've ever seen...
(Image)

You're ok, newbie. I don't care what they say.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

That's fantastic.

I got a good laugh out of it.

The Western Allies always had best nose art (it's a toss-up between Britain and the US, honestly). Seriously, this weekend I got my old copy of the Stackpole history of the Condor Legion, which had tons of good pics of the Luftwaffe planes that served in Spain - and their nose art was pretty pathetic. Oh wow, another poorly-drawn Mickey Mouse. Well done, you all. Oh, you bomber pilots have...a black outline of a pig? That's...er...great.
C- for effort.

Anyway, guys, I'm sorry it took almost a week for me to actually move the plot along any. To try and explain why this happened, and without trying to sound whiny or like I need pity, I'm going to list off all the ES things going on in my brain at the moment:

1) IC posts
2) Updating Alix's app, which is embarrassingly rudimentary and not nearly done
3) Updating Konrad's app, which HAHAHA OH GOD I HAVEN'T EVEN LOOKED AT IT IN A YEAR AND A HALF OH JESUS CHRIST
4) Continuing to update and format the OOC page, a job that's never done
5) Doing that collaborative Falkland-retcon series with Len, which I have been remiss on and may require substantive editing on the first part because the first half is literally just exposition and is frankly fucking embarrassing to read
6) Continuing FTS, which is at best half-done, and the half that's done is in desperate need of revision, expansion and modification
7) Continuing Page's Iraq series, which has not progressed nearly as far as I wanted by now
8 ) Actually starting Ali's training series, which fills me with fear at how massive it will be and how little sense it will make with regard to Guillotine and Mordred's established continuity as well as to the continuity of the Page-Ali relationship (which is already overstrained and implausible and poorly written), meaning that just starting it may mandate huge retcons to Guillotine, Mordred, and even Cambyses, to say nothing of knock-on effects to Taurus
9) Doing Page's personnel file, which is already massive, hugely outdated, mostly incorrect to begin with, and not nearly done
10) Doing Alix's personnel file, which hasn't even really been started
11) Continuing to copy-paste this all this OOC stuff over to the USCO, which, funnily enough, becomes a bigger and bigger job every day I wait because the page only gets bigger and never smaller
12) And beginning to lay out how I might need to retcon Operation Guillotine, because Jesus Christ I looked at that recently and fucking hell it went to pieces I can't have my name associated with that
13) Finishing Page's app, which I actually did and then SOMEHOW DELETED IT LIKE A STUPID FUCKING IDIOT

And finally, 14) Doing non-RP stuff such as eating, sleeping, breathing, working, and hyperventilating from panic for some reason.

So...yeah. Just wanted to get that off my chest, I guess.

[Organized States]

I got a good laugh out of it.

The Western Allies always had best nose art (it's a toss-up between Britain and the US, honestly). Seriously, this weekend I got my old copy of the Stackpole history of the Condor Legion, which had tons of good pics of the Luftwaffe planes that served in Spain - and their nose art was pretty pathetic. Oh wow, another poorly-drawn Mickey Mouse. Well done, you all. Oh, you bomber pilots have...a black outline of a pig? That's...er...great.
C- for effort.

Unfortunately, due to NS Posting rules, half of the other really good, B-29 works I found, well um...

[Grenartia]

http://d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net/photo/aEwL2QN_700b.jpg

You're welcome.

[United Kingdom of Poland]

I got a good laugh out of it.

The Western Allies always had best nose art (it's a toss-up between Britain and the US, honestly). Seriously, this weekend I got my old copy of the Stackpole history of the Condor Legion, which had tons of good pics of the Luftwaffe planes that served in Spain - and their nose art was pretty pathetic. Oh wow, another poorly-drawn Mickey Mouse. Well done, you all. Oh, you bomber pilots have...a black outline of a pig? That's...er...great.
C- for effort.

its not about how good the art is, its about the rep it has. I mean the most feared German fighter pilot (who eventually had to take the design off after he found that soviet pilots were purposely avoiding him) flew with picture of a black tulip as his nose art.

[The Two Jerseys]

http://d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net/photo/aEwL2QN_700b.jpg

You're welcome.

That's a worse art crime than slashing the Mona Lisa with a razor.

[Goram]

I don't believe no one has mentioned this yet.

On this day, one hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia in the aftermath of the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. This represents the beginning of the conflict that, over the coming week or so, would become the First World War.

Happy WWI centenary, everyone.

[Morrdh]

I don't believe no one has mentioned this yet.

On this day, one hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia in the aftermath of the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. This represents the beginning of the conflict that, over the coming week or so, would become the First World War.

Happy WWI centenary, everyone.

I believe within the next 3-4 months in 1914 my then 17 year old great grandfather lied about his age and joined up, shipped over to the trenches in France where he lost his leg and ended up being invalided out of the Army and home by Christmas.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I don't believe no one has mentioned this yet.

On this day, one hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia in the aftermath of the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. This represents the beginning of the conflict that, over the coming week or so, would become the First World War.

Happy WWI centenary, everyone.

WOOOO! TURN UP THE PARTY MUSIC!
Yeah, I thought about commenting on it, but I decided to leave it to you guys. Talking about WW1 mostly just depresses me.

[The Two Jerseys]

I don't believe no one has mentioned this yet.

On this day, one hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia in the aftermath of the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. This represents the beginning of the conflict that, over the coming week or so, would become the First World War.

Happy WWI centenary, everyone.

WOOOO! TURN UP THE PARTY MUSIC!
Yeah, I thought about commenting on it, but I decided to leave it to you guys. Talking about WW1 mostly just depresses me.

That's because it really is a depressing war. Just look at all the WWI movies, 95% of the time they're antiwar movies.