Excalibur Squadron OOC 2: The Song Remains the Same

[Morrdh]

Bf-109 uses 30mm cannon. its super effective

GORING uses ME-163!
It's not very effective...

Also, the roster has been updated, and I think we have just about the perfect number of people (assuming Henshaw is an ally and not a full-on member?).

Yes, only envisioned as an ally but possible he may pop up again later.

EDIT: Harry White? Who the F*** is Harry White?!

[The Tiger Kingdom]

GORING uses ME-163!
It's not very effective...

Also, the roster has been updated, and I think we have just about the perfect number of people (assuming Henshaw is an ally and not a full-on member?).

Yes, only envisioned as an ally but possible he may pop up again later.

EDIT: Harry White? Who the F*** is Harry White?!

I couldn't remember his nickname! Was it Whitey or something?

[Morrdh]

Yes, only envisioned as an ally but possible he may pop up again later.

EDIT: Harry White? Who the F*** is Harry White?!

I couldn't remember his nickname! Was it Whitey or something?

Henshaw?

No, don't think a nickname was created for him.

[The Two Jerseys]

Yes, only envisioned as an ally but possible he may pop up again later.

EDIT: Harry White? Who the F*** is Harry White?!

I couldn't remember his nickname! Was it Whitey or something?

"Chalkie. My nickname is Chalkie. Why do you intentionally not use it?"

I think what Morrdh is getting at is that Chalkie is actually GOr's character. Go to bed, Tigger. Or eat a Snickers at least.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I couldn't remember his nickname! Was it Whitey or something?

"Chalkie. My nickname is Chalkie. Why do you intentionally not use it?"

I think what Morrdh is getting at is that Chalkie is actually GOr's character. Go to bed, Tigger. Or eat a Snickers at least.

I can't figure out what you guys are referencing half the time, anyways.

[Goram]

I couldn't remember his nickname! Was it Whitey or something?

"Chalkie. My nickname is Chalkie. Why do you intentionally not use it?"

I think what Morrdh is getting at is that Chalkie is actually GOr's character. Go to bed, Tigger. Or eat a Snickers at least.

David Mitchell is a goddamn hero.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

"Chalkie. My nickname is Chalkie. Why do you intentionally not use it?"

I think what Morrdh is getting at is that Chalkie is actually GOr's character. Go to bed, Tigger. Or eat a Snickers at least.

David Mitchell is a goddamn hero.

Peep Show began to get a little spooky in terms of how temperamentally similar I am to Mark, which I guess I should be worried about, but eh. Always more books about Stalingrad to read.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

So yeah, have your guys do their intro things.

[The Two Jerseys]

So yeah, have your guys do their intro things.

BTW Tigger, last night while I was searching the London Gazette's archive trying to find what range of service numbers were being allocated to officers in 1933, I just happened to stumble on a list of Fleet Air Arm pilots who apparently possessed both RAF and RN ranks simultaneously.

So it seems that Page's dual rank thing does have some basis in reality after all. Might be worth doing some digging into...

[Goram]

So yeah, have your guys do their intro things.

BTW Tigger, last night while I was searching the London Gazette's archive trying to find what range of service numbers were being allocated to officers in 1933, I just happened to stumble on a list of Fleet Air Arm pilots who apparently possessed both RAF and RN ranks simultaneously.

So it seems that Page's dual rank thing does have some basis in reality after all. Might be worth doing some digging into...

To be fair, this isn't a piece of academia. Even if IRL support for something, like dual ranks, can't be found, doesn't mean it's off limits.

[Altito Asmoro]

So yeah, have your guys do their intro things.

Okay.

[Gibberan]

338274 - McTAVISH, C. J.                                                        Page  1   of  4

RECORD OF PERSONNEL - CONFIDENTIAL
for Air Ministry internal use ONLY

Name:  McTAVISH, Clifford John                  Service Number:  338274 
Date of Birth:  14th   July          19 13     Place of Birth:  Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA
Gender:  Male     Height:  6 ft.   1 in.    Weight:  14 st.  4 lb.
Choose: Male, Female        Round to nearest inch               Round to nearest pound
Hair:  Brown                   Eyes:  Blue               
Note details and variations in shade/colour in parentheses
Nationality: American                                                      
Permanent Residence:  On Base (RAF Manston Heath)                                              
Marital Status:  Single unmarried    No. of Dependents, [No. of Dependent Minors]:  0 , [ 0 ]
Choose: Single unmarried, Single divorced, Married, Widower/Widowed
Addendum & Erratum:      N/A                                             
           N/A                                                           


Date of Enlistment:  21st   June    19 40 
Place of Enlistment:  Liverpool                                                
Branch:  Regular R.A.F.                                                          
Choose: Regular R.A.F., Auxiliary, Women's Auxiliary, Volunteer Reserve, Medical Services, P.M.R.A.F.N.S., Other (list details)
Rank & Date of Seniority:  Flying Officer 29th October 1940 
    
Date of Separation:  -    -          19 -  
Reason for Separation:  -                                                                       
Choose: Expiration of enlistment term, Retirement, General demobilization, Hardship/Medical grounds, Disciplinary action,
    Resignation of commission, Other (list details)

338274, McTAVISH, C.J.                                                         Page  2   of  4 


UNIT POSTINGS:

- CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL (RAF Cranwell) 
- No. 6 SQUADRON (RAF Haifa)     
- No. 319 SQUADRON (RAF Manston Heath)                                                                         

AWARDS, DECORATIONS, HONOURS, ETC.:

 N/A                                                                                                            

DISCIPLINARY RECORD:

 N/A                                                                                                            

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS:

 - Basic Combat/Flight Training: Central Flying School (single)
 - Type qualifications: Grumman FF-2 (1935), Curtis SOC SEAGULL (1936), Grumman F2F (1936), Douglas TBD DEVASTATOR (1937), 
Avro TUTOR (1938), Hawker HARDY (1939), Gloster GAUNTLET (1939), Hawker HURRICANE (1939, at some point before foxhunt, probably)

Demonstrated aptitude in low-level manouvering and something else probably.

338274, McTAVISH, C.J                                                             Page  3   of   4


SERVICE RECORD:


August 18th 1938: Enlistment into RAF at Liverpool.

September 9th 1938 Posted to Recruit Training Camp

November 4th 1938: Interview with Aircrew Selection Board; recommended for commission and training; posted 
CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL for flight training, effective May 9, 1940

April 7th 1939: Transfer for officership courses accepted, transfer effective 

April 22nd 1939: Promoted Flying Officer upon completion of officership courses.          

April 26th 1939: Posted No 6 SQUADRON, RAF Haifa.

December 27th 1940: McTavish takes part in attack on surfaced German U-boat, believed to have been targeting oil 
refineries at Haifa. Submarine is presumed sunk.

December 13th, 1939: Posted 319 SQUADRON, RAF Manston Heath

338274, McTAVISH, C.J                                                          Page  4   of 4 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:


- RECRUIT McTAVISH has previously flown with the Unites States Navy (TBC).

- Observations on physical health (15/4/39) RECRUIT McTAVISH is reported perfect physical health.

- F/O McTAVISH sustained a bullet wound from Arab ground-fire while flying a routine patrol on July 15th 1939.

- Instructors at the CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL have described CLIFFORD JOHN McTAVISH as a gifted pilot with a knack for aerial
marksmanship and low-level flying. This sentiment is echoed by Sqn Ldr N. C. SINGER, commanding officer of No. 6 SQUADRON,
who has recommended CARTER for transfer to 319 SQUADRON.

[Heavonia]

Name: Gareth Cowell
Age: 37
Rank: Flying Officer/Sub-Lieutenant
Physical Description/Picture: Slight but not emaciated or sufficiently skinny to be unsuitably so, gaunt face with sharp lines. Maybe 5ft 8 or 9. Close cropped black hair with moustache and blue eyes.
Country of Origin: England
Flight/Flight Combat Experience: Inter-war civilian flight lessons and over a decade's experience flying small aircraft in spare time, suitable enough to segue easily into pre-war aircraft lessons.
Ground Combat Experience: Beating the shit out of other gangs, dockers, and cops in the inter-war years.
Specialties (air or ground - communications, demolitions, disguises, languages, etc.): Kinda good at flying. Also skilled at getting in to places he's not meant to get into.
Weapons of Choice: Anything he can get his hand on really. He's not exactly a crack shot with anything, and hasn't used a 'standard' or 'service' weapon in years. He does, however, have a sawn-off shotgun stored in the bottom of his duffel bag which was first fired in anger in 1900 by his father, and has been used semi-regularly ever since.
RP Experience: This one time I was in a game of DnD.
Personal History/Bio (more than one line please): Gareth Cooper was a rough-tough docker's son, living and working in the largest port in the world - the Port of London. In London he worked alongside a wide-range of figures, engaged in entirely legitimate business activities which at no point ever resulted in sprinting through the streets of the East of the city being chased by the sound of boots on stone and blowing whistles. During this time he gained a healthy respect for the country which had taken his family in, and also made a number of contacts alongside his father and two brothers. His Father and two brothers volunteered (naturally) for the Royal Navy in 1914, with Gareth following suit in 1917 when he felt he was suitably adult-looking to serve without being caught out. He completed his training and was immediately posted to HMS Furious, one of the Royal Navy's (and indeed the world's) first aircraft carriers.

It was aboard that ship that Gareth first gained his appreciation for flying - something that would continue well after his demobilisation in 1920. Returning to London with his new knowledge of the brutalities of war, he continued to 'work' as a London Docker, while also gaining an impressive relationship as a man who could get things done in the East End, especially using contacts in the navy at the docklands to obtain and make use of entirely inappropriate items for civilian use or consumption. However, at home he also indulged the love of flying, joining a local Aero Club and gaining enough experience to be able to move through the air skillfully in small mono- or bi-planes. Following injury and 3 months imprisonment after the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, he decided to quit the life he'd led for himself and focus on the flying while also serving his country in what he was sure would be a coming opportunity to 'cut the cunts' in Germany. In 1937 he commissioned into the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force, however when the Inskip Award returned that branch to the Royal Navy, he was retained in the RAF and transferred between a few squadrons before being attached to 319 Squadron.

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Edited it a bit. He's now younger (and correspondingly did not volunteer in 1914, waiting until later in the war so he could pass as an adult when he did volunteer underage), the sentences are completed, and he's now served in the RAF's Fleet Air Arm up until May '39 before being bounced around the RAF rather than being put into the Navy and then finally put into 319.

[Morrdh]

BTW Tigger, last night while I was searching the London Gazette's archive trying to find what range of service numbers were being allocated to officers in 1933, I just happened to stumble on a list of Fleet Air Arm pilots who apparently possessed both RAF and RN ranks simultaneously.

So it seems that Page's dual rank thing does have some basis in reality after all. Might be worth doing some digging into...

To be fair, this isn't a piece of academia. Even if IRL support for something, like dual ranks, can't be found, doesn't mean it's off limits.

A number of RN and RM pilots did also have RAF ranks prior to the Inskip Award, though a number of RAF personnel did continue with the Fleet Air Arm after 1939.

[Morrdh]

"Chalkie. My nickname is Chalkie. Why do you intentionally not use it?"

I think what Morrdh is getting at is that Chalkie is actually GOr's character. Go to bed, Tigger. Or eat a Snickers at least.

I can't figure out what you guys are referencing half the time, anyways.

My character for this op is Captain Patrick Henshaw of the Royal Marines.

[Heavonia]

To be fair, this isn't a piece of academia. Even if IRL support for something, like dual ranks, can't be found, doesn't mean it's off limits.

A number of RN and RM pilots did also have RAF ranks prior to the Inskip Award, though a number of RAF personnel did continue with the Fleet Air Arm after 1939.

Oh, were there RN pilots in the RAF's Fleet Air Arm? I'd just seen it was an RAF thing and assumed they all used RAF ranks. :/

If so I'd like to dual-rank him with his RN rank, and the RAF one that people keep trying to make him use following the Inskip Award and him being retained for use by 319 Squadron.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

So yeah, have your guys do their intro things.

BTW Tigger, last night while I was searching the London Gazette's archive trying to find what range of service numbers were being allocated to officers in 1933, I just happened to stumble on a list of Fleet Air Arm pilots who apparently possessed both RAF and RN ranks simultaneously.

So it seems that Page's dual rank thing does have some basis in reality after all. Might be worth doing some digging into...

That makes some degree of sense, given how the FAA was an extension of the Navy and both involved planes.
Integrated RAF and Army ranks are probably pretty unheard of, unless you're some member of the Royal Family that just automatically get commissions in every service.

[Grenartia]

Hey, Tigger, what day is it IC?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Hey, Tigger, what day is it IC?

IC, it is the very early morning of December 14th, 1939, which I believe was a Thursday.

[Grenartia]

TFW you're a military aviation enthusiast, with special focus on WWII and Korea, and your fiance is apathetic about it. Said fiance also having a grandfather who was an RAF ATC during the Battle of Britain.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I can't figure out what you guys are referencing half the time, anyways.

My character for this op is Captain Patrick Henshaw of the Royal Marines.

Right, right, I knew that.
Also, expect a tg reasonably soon w/r/t plans for Henshaw for the operation, given that he's outside the squad.

TFW you're a military aviation enthusiast, with special focus on WWII and Korea, and your fiance is apathetic about it. Said fiance also having a grandfather who was an RAF ATC during the Battle of Britain.

Wait, are you talking about yourself? If so, how did I not know you were engaged?

[Grenartia]

My character for this op is Captain Patrick Henshaw of the Royal Marines.

Right, right, I knew that.
Also, expect a tg reasonably soon w/r/t plans for Henshaw for the operation, given that he's outside the squad.

TFW you're a military aviation enthusiast, with special focus on WWII and Korea, and your fiance is apathetic about it. Said fiance also having a grandfather who was an RAF ATC during the Battle of Britain.

Wait, are you talking about yourself? If so, how did I not know you were engaged?

It happened about a year ago (actually, the very morning of the SSM decision), and it didn't really come up until now.

[Grenartia]

Also, you mind if I name the aide?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Right, right, I knew that.
Also, expect a tg reasonably soon w/r/t plans for Henshaw for the operation, given that he's outside the squad.


Wait, are you talking about yourself? If so, how did I not know you were engaged?

It happened about a year ago (actually, the very morning of the SSM decision), and it didn't really come up until now.

Wow! Congratulations, that's really cool!

Also, you mind if I name the aide?

Go for it, he was a throwaway otherwise.

[Grenartia]

It happened about a year ago (actually, the very morning of the SSM decision), and it didn't really come up until now.

Wow! Congratulations, that's really cool!

Also, you mind if I name the aide?

Go for it, he was a throwaway otherwise.

Thanks.

Yeah, that guy just seemed like the kind of guy Zeke would have a Hawkeye/Radar relationship with.