Excalibur Squadron OOC Thread

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Sure.

But I don't get sent back to England due to my injuries.

You're lucky Monroe isn't here and drunk to insult you vulgarly with not-so-gentlemanly slurred words.

Well, I mean, it would take a week or so. Timeline gets all screwed up. Anarchy.
(...OK, OK, you can go back to England if you like. Never let it be said I'm not merciful.)

[Lancearc]

But I don't get sent back to England due to my injuries.

You're lucky Monroe isn't here and drunk to insult you vulgarly with not-so-gentlemanly slurred words.

Well, I mean, it would take a week or so. Timeline gets all screwed up. Anarchy.
(...OK, OK, you can go back to England if you like. Never let it be said I'm not merciful.)

Phuck dat shit, have you seen the weather in England?

I'm fine in North Africa, thank you.

[The balkens]

So I assume the squadron will be divided up into flights?

Considering there are sooooo Many of us.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

So I assume the squadron will be divided up into flights?

Considering there are sooooo Many of us.

Possibly. I'll have to work this out.
Soooooooo... technically 18 people now. While the usual rule is that only about 50% to 66% are active at any given time, that's still 9-12 active people. Should be fun!

[The Tiger Kingdom]

OK, almost all new people added to the front. One more guy is going to submit a new app, or so I've been assured. We're going to be experimenting with actual, instituted flights next op, so keep your eyes peeled.
Also, I put a front page link to Two Jersey's Personnel File formatting thing, so it's in an easy-to-find location. Much love to TJ for that.
And, of course, IC post under construction.

[The balkens]

Yay! Whats more fun then having 2 polish pilots? (one of whom Is a extremely dangerous and possibly a psychopath, I leave you to decide...) a third one.....oh boy......

[Kouralia]

Yay! Whats more fun then having 2 polish pilots?

Two British Pilots and a third French one they can merciless take the piss out of.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Yay! Whats more fun then having 2 polish pilots?

Two British Pilots and a third French one they can merciless take the piss out of.

What the hell happened to the Frenchies? We had two, and none of them ever hung around. Meanwhile, we have 3 Dutchies, 3 Poles, and a Brazilian.
Straaaaaaaaaange.

[Morrdh]

Two British Pilots and a third French one they can merciless take the piss out of.

What the hell happened to the Frenchies? We had two, and none of them ever hung around. Meanwhile, we have 3 Dutchies, 3 Poles, and a Brazilian.
Straaaaaaaaaange.

Not really, sounds about right for the RAF in 1940....hell it even had Argentine pilots!

[Kouralia]

What the hell happened to the Frenchies? We had two, and none of them ever hung around. Meanwhile, we have 3 Dutchies, 3 Poles, and a Brazilian.
Straaaaaaaaaange.

Not really, sounds about right for the RAF in 1940....hell it even had Argentine pilots!

*insert 'Back in Control' By Sabaton

[The Tiger Kingdom]

What the hell happened to the Frenchies? We had two, and none of them ever hung around. Meanwhile, we have 3 Dutchies, 3 Poles, and a Brazilian.
Straaaaaaaaaange.

Not really, sounds about right for the RAF in 1940....hell it even had Argentine pilots!

I figured people would go for the standard nationals first. We've got no Aussies, no Canadians, no Frenchmen, and no Czechs, all of whom I were expecting to be a fairly strong presence.

(also, post note: "torch" is King's English for flashlight.)

[Calizorinstan]

This one is called Nostalgia.

March of 1967,

Pat's family Farm,

Louisville, KY..


Pat stood on the wing, looking proudly at his newest acquisition. He had gone all through Europe just to track down this special bird. His old Mark II Spitfire, which he had flown with Excalibur. He eyed across the ramp, at his private field, an old 109 that sat there, still clean and looking as fresh as the day he had stole in from Danzig. Yup, he had also managed to purchase "His" ME-109, having remembered the serial number.

After the RAF had gotten a hold of it, it was then transferred to Wright Pat AFB for the Foreign Technology "nerds" to test, along with the pilot's manual that Pat had stolen. Then it was released as surplus at the end of World War II. He had bought it for a good sum from a flying museum that was bankrupt.

Then, he had to find the Spitfire that he had flown in World War II. As he had married a wealthy heiress during World War II, the financial side of his "Museum" was not going to pose a problem. As recently the operations of Excalibur were declassified, Pat decided to start a museum on his private Air Field, dedicated to the exploits of Excalibur and other secret squadrons. Therefore, he could actually get more money to keep these birds that he had flown flying.

He shook his head out of his nostalgia, as he clambered into his Spit's cockpit. He shed a tear as he strapped in, remembering all the combat missions that he flew in this bird, and how it had faithfully gotten him literally through the deepest pits of hell and back. He was hoping within a few hours to have a round up of the surviving members of Excalibur, to have a reunion, similar to the Doolitle Raider's Reunion.

Finishing donning his flight helmet, and gloves (his squadron issued gear), and his pre-flight checklist, he closed the canopy and inched the throttle forward and felt a strange feeling in his stomach as he barreled down the runway, feeling a strange feeling of joy as he gently pulled back on the stick and raised the Spitfire into the air.

Meanwhile, on the ground, his 27 year old son James, named after his killed brother in arms, was completing his pre-flight preparations in the P-40, that Pat had flown earlier in the war, and also flew at Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. It was by chance that Pat had acquired it, having found it in the junkyard at Kingman AAF in Arizona. He immediately recognized some of the modifications that he had made whilst it had been in Excalibur service and purchased it.


James was now at the beginning of the runway and soon enough, he slammed the throttle forward and the P-40 soon roared down the runway and took off to join his father. He formed up on his Dad's wing and crackled over the radio "Just like old times eh Pops?" James, was now a F-4 pilot, soon going to be deployed to Ubon with the 555 TFS "Triple Nickel", but was on leave before his deployment.


As they flew together Pat replied "Son, this is. If only Captain Page, and the others were here, it would be Excalibur all over again." And as they flew around the countryside, Pat reminisced on his war time memories, and with his son at his side, it would only get better...

[The balkens]

Not really, sounds about right for the RAF in 1940....hell it even had Argentine pilots!

I figured people would go for the standard nationals first. We've got no Aussies, no Canadians, no Frenchmen, and no Czechs, all of whom I were expecting to be a fairly strong presence.

(also, post note: "torch" is King's English for flashlight.)

But no ruskies.....oh the operation barborossa didn't start yet...

[Morrdh]

I figured people would go for the standard nationals first. We've got no Aussies, no Canadians, no Frenchmen, and no Czechs, all of whom I were expecting to be a fairly strong presence.

(also, post note: "torch" is King's English for flashlight.)

But no ruskies.....oh the operation barborossa didn't start yet...

And IIRC Britain was backing Finland against the Soviet Union at the time and supplying arms to them, course then Finland decided to throw its lot in with Germany.

[Kouralia]

But no ruskies.....oh the operation barborossa didn't start yet...

And IIRC Britain was backing Finland against the Soviet Union at the time and supplying arms to them, course then Finland decided to throw its lot in with Germany.

Meanwhile in the USSR: "Hey, let's offer military help to Nazi Germany."
*a few months later*
"Fuck! Don't let anyone find out about our secret shared base, nor our attempt to escort German Warships to the Pacific!"

[Morrdh]

And IIRC Britain was backing Finland against the Soviet Union at the time and supplying arms to them, course then Finland decided to throw its lot in with Germany.

Meanwhile in the USSR: "Hey, let's offer military help to Nazi Germany."
*a few months later*
"Fuck! Don't let anyone find out about our secret shared base, nor our attempt to escort German Warships to the Pacific!"

Actually the Soviet Union helped Germany to crush Poland in exchange for roughly half the country.

[The balkens]

Hence the term SIS (MI6) should come to mind for Michael......

[Kouralia]

Meanwhile in the USSR: "Hey, let's offer military help to Nazi Germany."
*a few months later*
"Fuck! Don't let anyone find out about our secret shared base, nor our attempt to escort German Warships to the Pacific!"

Actually the Soviet Union helped Germany to crush Poland in exchange for roughly half the country.

Indeed. But that wasn't really helping. It was more like a "We do some stuff, you mop up later on."

Their base and stuff was joint-operations intended to help Germany against the west.

[The balkens]

Then hitler made his second biggest mistake ever....

[Kouralia]

Then hitler made his second biggest mistake ever....

Getting into a war with Britain!

Wait...

No, that's his first one...

And if declaring war on the US is the third...

[The balkens]

Thought it would be funny to roll some panzers over into the motherland did he?

[Kouralia]

Thought it would be funny to roll some panzers over into the motherland did he?

No.

I think he thought it'd be extremely easy.

[The balkens]

He actually should've took the frenchies advise when it comes to invading russian soil.

Sure it may be fun and easy at first...then the cruel mistress known as winter comes around, she ruins your life, ruins your plans and ruins your dreams of ( insert country here ) dominated Europe.

Winter: you cruel, cruel bitch.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

The original plan was for the Barbarossa to go forward in April 1941, rather than June. It got shoved back because Mussolini felt ignored after all of Germany's successes and Italy's failures in Africa, so he had to go and invade Greece (and fuck it up so badly that the Germans had to waste time saving his ass, as not only were the Greeks holding out, they were actually invading Italian-held Albania).

Had it gone forward in April...rather than the offensive grinding out in the mud just short of Moscow in October/November, it would still have been August/September. Roads would still have been dry then, and it would still have been warm as well. Marshal Winter wouldn't have shown up in time.

[The balkens]

Heh


So we doing the time skip tonight?