Excalibur Squadron OOC - Too Tough To Die? (CLOSED)

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

What kind of unit are you thinking about?

This would actually be a Brandenberger/SS sort of formation, not necessarily a fighter squadron.

Then something like this could be your thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonder_ ... ranienburg

[Grenartia]

Brandenburgers actually sounds tasty.

[The Two Jerseys]

Brandenburgers actually sounds tasty.

If you go to an Atlanta Braves game and eat at the restaurant on the club level, they actually do brand the burgers with the team logo...

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Brandenburgers actually sounds tasty.

If you go to an Atlanta Braves game and eat at the restaurant on the club level, they actually do brand the burgers with the team logo...

TJ just outed himself as Ted Turner, I think

[The Two Jerseys]

If you go to an Atlanta Braves game and eat at the restaurant on the club level, they actually do brand the burgers with the team logo...

TJ just outed himself as Ted Turner, I think

If I had the entire TCM movie library at my disposal, do you really think I'd be here?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

TJ just outed himself as Ted Turner, I think

If I had the entire TCM movie library at my disposal, do you really think I'd be here?

WHY DID YOU GET RID OF WCW, MAN
THEY WERE AWESOME

[The Two Jerseys]

If I had the entire TCM movie library at my disposal, do you really think I'd be here?

WHY DID YOU GET RID OF WCW, MAN
THEY WERE AWESOME

I'm using the money I saved on it to colorize Schindler's List.

[Kouralia]

No real context needed for this - just interesting and amusing.

“You’re a bunch of bastards,” shouted Templer (Sir Gerald Templer, High Commissioner and Director of Operations in Malyasia); and Rice, who spoke Chinese, listened carefully as the translator announced without emotion: “His Excellency informs you that he knows that none of your mothers and fathers were married when you were born.”

Templer waited, then, pointing a finger at the astonished villagers to show them who was the “Tuan,” added “You may be bastards, but you’ll find out that I can be a bigger one.” Missing the point of the threat completely, the translator said politely, “His Excellency does admit, however, that his father was also not married to his mother.”

[Organized States]

Hope it's not too late. I've been in the field on exercise and I was hoping to get this up before then, but c'est la vie.

Name: Kenneth Franklin Carson
Date of Birth: January 6th, 1912
Rank: 1st Lieutenant, USMCR/Detective I (LAPD, Formerly)/Flying Officer, RCAF
Physical Description/Picture:

Place of Origin: United States of America
Flight/Flight Combat Experience:

-Aviation Cadet Program Indoctrination
-Flight Training at NAS Pensacola
-VMF-2
-Fleet Problems XIX
-Fleet Problems XX
-RCAF Training
-No.1 Squadron, RCAF

Ground Combat Experience: The United States Marine Corps Basic School in Philadelphia, LAPD Police Academy
Specialties:
-Trained, but inexperienced combat pilot
-Pistol Marksmanship
-Trained Investigator
-Effective Interrogator
-Knowledge of Platoon-sized Infantry Tactics
Weapons of Choice: Colt M1911/Colt Official Police/Thompson Submachine Gun/Winchester Model 1912
RP Experience: Well, I'm just hurt by this question
Personal History:
Kenneth Carson was born in Santa Monica, California in January 1912 to Frank Carson and his fiance, Barbara Myers. For the first few years of his life, he lived in relative domestic tranquility with the support of his well-to-do grandfather, who had made large amounts of money as a succesful doctor to various early Hollywood personalities and investors, along with the his father's paycheck from his service as a pilot with the Aero Service in the First World War. However, tragedy soon struck the family when his father was killed over France. The first in a series of tragedies to strike the family, it was soon followed by his grandfather being murdered by members of an organized crime elements after he stood up to strong armed robbery of a morphine shipment. This proved to be the family's financial collapse, with Kenneth living through years of poverty as a child, even before the start of the Great Depression in 1929, which totally destroyed his chance at attending any college. Robert eventually joined the LAPD in January of 1930 right after turning 18, and graduating from the Police Academy later that year, and began working as a Beat Cop in December. He completed enough night classes to obtain a college degree in 1931, thus qualifying him for promotion within the LAPD. After spending three years as a beat cop, he was promoted to Detective I and was soon transferred to the prestigious Homicide Desk later that year. In December of 1935, he received a case that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

On the Morning of Monday, December 16th, 1935, America was reading headlines of the Detroit Lions' resounding victory over the New York Giants in the National Football League's championship game and of its continued long slog through the depression. However, Hollywood's many film studios were still making movies in spite of the economy, and various stars had risen in their employ. However, actress Thelma Todd career came to a tragic halt when she was found dead in her 12-cylinder Lincoln in the garage of former actress Jewel Carmen. The 29-year actress was declared as having committed suicide via Carbon Monoxide poising by the other detectives of the LAPD, despite being believed by her family and friends to have no motives for taking her own life and blood being found in the car along with having injuries to her face along with having multiple connections to possible organized crime elements in the city. Despite the case having been declared closed by the other detectives of the heavily corrupt Los Angeles Police Department, Carson continued to dig, thus making himself many enemies within the Department and uncovering a possible link to mob boss "Lucky" Luciano. In spite of his discoveries on the case was soon sent away from the Homicide desk in a politically-motivated transfer in 1936, being sent to the infamous Vice Desk, known primarily for its racism against Los Angeles's Latino and African American communities, excessive use of force, and being heavily paid off by the mob bosses of the time, such as "Bugsy" Siegel. It proved to be a perfect set-up for the older generation of corrupt LAPD officers, particularly the enemies he had made at the Homicide Desk, to pin something on him. Falsely accused of corruption during the Administration of Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Carson was among 45 officers forced out of the Department in Late 1937.

Once again left in life with no alternatives, Carson decided to follow in his father's footsteps and in his boyhood dreams of being a pilot and attempted to join the Navy's Aviation Cadet Training Program as a Marine Corps Aviation Cadet in December 1937. He completed the program at NAS Pensacola soon afterwards in 1938 and was soon commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Marines within the year and assigned to VMF-2 at Naval Air Station San Diego, flying the Grumman F2F. He participated in two major Fleet Problems while with VMF-2, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant following the end of Fleet Problem XX in February of 1939. With the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Carson transferred to the Marine Corps Reserve and itching to get into the fight, he traveled to Vancouver to join the RCAF secretly under a false identity. He was temporarily assigned to No.1 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, before receiving mysterious transfer orders to the mysterious No.319 Squadron in the English countryside, with seemingly everyone else having never heard of RAF Manston or of its mysterious tenant unit. Someone, somewhere was apparently keeping an eye on him and knew of his past, and clearly had plans for Carson which he didn't understand, but was determined to find out.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Hope it's not too late. I've been in the field on exercise and I was hoping to get this up before then, but c'est la vie.

Name: Kenneth Franklin Carson
Date of Birth: January 6th, 1912
Rank: 1st Lieutenant, USMCR/Detective I (LAPD, Formerly)/Flying Officer, RCAF
Physical Description/Picture:

(Image)

Place of Origin: United States of America
Flight/Flight Combat Experience:

-Aviation Cadet Program Indoctrination
-Flight Training at NAS Pensacola
-VMF-2
-Fleet Problems XIX
-Fleet Problems XX
-RCAF Training
-No.1 Squadron, RCAF

Ground Combat Experience: The United States Marine Corps Basic School in Philadelphia, LAPD Police Academy
Specialties:
-Trained, but inexperienced combat pilot
-Pistol Marksmanship
-Trained Investigator
-Effective Interrogator
-Knowledge of Platoon-sized Infantry Tactics
Weapons of Choice: Colt M1911/Colt Official Police/Thompson Submachine Gun/Winchester Model 1912
RP Experience: Well, I'm just hurt by this question
Personal History:
Kenneth Carson was born in Santa Monica, California in January 1912 to Frank Carson and his fiance, Barbara Myers. For the first few years of his life, he lived in relative domestic tranquility with the support of his well-to-do grandfather, who had made large amounts of money as a succesful doctor to various early Hollywood personalities and investors, along with the his father's paycheck from his service as a pilot with the Aero Service in the First World War. However, tragedy soon struck the family when his father was killed over France. The first in a series of tragedies to strike the family, it was soon followed by his grandfather being murdered by members of an organized crime elements after he stood up to strong armed robbery of a morphine shipment. This proved to be the family's financial collapse, with Kenneth living through years of poverty as a child, even before the start of the Great Depression in 1929, which totally destroyed his chance at attending any college. Robert eventually joined the LAPD in January of 1930 right after turning 18, and graduating from the Police Academy later that year, and began working as a Beat Cop in December. He completed enough night classes to obtain a college degree in 1931, thus qualifying him for promotion within the LAPD. After spending three years as a beat cop, he was promoted to Detective I and was soon transferred to the prestigious Homicide Desk later that year. In December of 1935, he received a case that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

On the Morning of Monday, December 16th, 1935, America was reading headlines of the Detroit Lions' resounding victory over the New York Giants in the National Football League's championship game and of its continued long slog through the depression. However, Hollywood's many film studios were still making movies in spite of the economy, and various stars had risen in their employ. However, actress Thelma Todd career came to a tragic halt when she was found dead in her 12-cylinder Lincoln in the garage of former actress Jewel Carmen. The 29-year actress was declared as having committed suicide via Carbon Monoxide poising by the other detectives of the LAPD, despite being believed by her family and friends to have no motives for taking her own life and blood being found in the car along with having injuries to her face along with having multiple connections to possible organized crime elements in the city. Despite the case having been declared closed by the other detectives of the heavily corrupt Los Angeles Police Department, Carson continued to dig, thus making himself many enemies within the Department and uncovering a possible link to mob boss "Lucky" Luciano. In spite of his discoveries on the case was soon sent away from the Homicide desk in a politically-motivated transfer in 1936, being sent to the infamous Vice Desk, known primarily for its racism against Los Angeles's Latino and African American communities, excessive use of force, and being heavily paid off by the mob bosses of the time, such as "Bugsy" Siegel. It proved to be a perfect set-up for the older generation of corrupt LAPD officers, particularly the enemies he had made at the Homicide Desk, to pin something on him. Falsely accused of corruption during the Administration of Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Carson was among 45 officers forced out of the Department in Late 1937.

Once again left in life with no alternatives, Carson decided to follow in his father's footsteps and in his boyhood dreams of being a pilot and attempted to join the Navy's Aviation Cadet Training Program as a Marine Corps Aviation Cadet in December 1937. He completed the program at NAS Pensacola soon afterwards in 1938 and was soon commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Marines within the year and assigned to VMF-2 at Naval Air Station San Diego, flying the Grumman F2F. He participated in two major Fleet Problems while with VMF-2, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant following the end of Fleet Problem XX in February of 1939. With the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Carson transferred to the Marine Corps Reserve and itching to get into the fight, he traveled to Vancouver to join the RCAF secretly under a false identity. He was temporarily assigned to No.1 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, before receiving mysterious transfer orders to the mysterious No.319 Squadron in the English countryside, with seemingly everyone else having never heard of RAF Manston or of its mysterious tenant unit. Someone, somewhere was apparently keeping an eye on him and knew of his past, and clearly had plans for Carson which he didn't understand, but was determined to find out.

Approved, finally - I've been holding your reservation since page 1!
This is good. Now with fifteen, we can get the five-Vic setup.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Here's a hint to keep the ball rolling while I set things up.

[Gibberan]

Finally was able to post, sorry about the delay.

Also Morddh, I noticed Patrick served with an RAF Armored Car Company during the Arab Revolts. Not to make the squadron more of an old friends club than it already is, but perhaps him and Cliff met once or twice on a mission there?

Here's a hint to keep the ball rolling while I set things up.

Communists always make it more interesting.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Finally was able to post, sorry about the delay.

Also Morddh, I noticed Patrick served with an RAF Armored Car Company during the Arab Revolts. Not to make the squadron more of an old friends club than it already is, but perhaps him and Cliff met once or twice on a mission there?

Here's a hint to keep the ball rolling while I set things up.

Communists always make it more interesting.

Ooh, but then it gets weeeeeeeeeirder later on tho

[Morrdh]

Finally was able to post, sorry about the delay.

Also Morddh, I noticed Patrick served with an RAF Armored Car Company during the Arab Revolts. Not to make the squadron more of an old friends club than it already is, but perhaps him and Cliff met once or twice on a mission there?

Possible.

Kour's character also was involved with both the RAF Armoured Car Companies and the Arab Revolt, though they were army.

[Morrdh]

Handful of photos of wartime Britain in colour.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... ?CMP=fb_gu

[Grenartia]

Working on a poast right now.

Handful of photos of wartime Britain in colour.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... ?CMP=fb_gu

Those are pretty damn good pics.

[Kouralia]

Finally was able to post, sorry about the delay.

Also Morddh, I noticed Patrick served with an RAF Armored Car Company during the Arab Revolts. Not to make the squadron more of an old friends club than it already is, but perhaps him and Cliff met once or twice on a mission there?

Possible.

Kour's character also was involved with both the RAF Armoured Car Companies and the Arab Revolt, though they were army.

Mm-hmm, mine was part of a British Mechanised Cavalry Regiment and was also enlisted though, so while they might have met, I doubt either would have paid overmuch attention to the other.

[The Two Jerseys]

Some unfortunate Snowdrop is going to get chewed out if he doesn't get this traffic jam cleared out...

And expect an app for an associated knockabout in the near future.

[Grenartia]

Something tells me this next Op is happening in Poland.

[Gibberan]

Something tells me this next Op is happening in Poland.

I mean, if it happens in the only other likely setting, the Saarland, I'd imagine it would be a pretty short op...

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Something tells me this next Op is happening in Poland.

I mean, if it happens in the only other likely setting, the Saarland, I'd imagine it would be a pretty short op...

Gren and I had an interesting TG discussion a few months ago about whether or not ES operations should "follow the greatest hits" (IE the wikipedia WW2 timeline of what exactly happened when), or should try and go do more unconventional things. Our consensus, if I remember, was that we should do both at once, which was...no decision at all.
So rest assured, this is an excruciatingly well-researched and plausible RP deeply rooted in reality that is also chock-full of doom zeppelins and mechanical Nazi velociraptors.

[Gibberan]

So rest assured, this is an excruciatingly well-researched and plausible RP deeply rooted in reality that is also chock-full of doom zeppelins and mechanical Nazi velociraptors.

The great thing about Excalibur is that we've already done one of those things.

[Grenartia]

I mean, if it happens in the only other likely setting, the Saarland, I'd imagine it would be a pretty short op...

Gren and I had an interesting TG discussion a few months ago about whether or not ES operations should "follow the greatest hits" (IE the wikipedia WW2 timeline of what exactly happened when), or should try and go do more unconventional things. Our consensus, if I remember, was that we should do both at once, which was...no decision at all.
So rest assured, this is an excruciatingly well-researched and plausible RP deeply rooted in reality that is also chock-full of doom zeppelins and mechanical Nazi velociraptors.

You forgot Kung Fuhrer, Tig.

[Morrdh]

Hey Tigger...

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-art ... waves.html

[Goram]

I mean, if it happens in the only other likely setting, the Saarland, I'd imagine it would be a pretty short op...

Gren and I had an interesting TG discussion a few months ago about whether or not ES operations should "follow the greatest hits" (IE the wikipedia WW2 timeline of what exactly happened when), or should try and go do more unconventional things. Our consensus, if I remember, was that we should do both at once, which was...no decision at all.
So rest assured, this is an excruciatingly well-researched and plausible RP deeply rooted in reality that is also chock-full of doom zeppelins and mechanical Nazi velociraptors.

If it were up to me, I'd say we should follow the timeline. But also think we ought to leave certain bits out. Like, we shouldn't be bombing any Ruhr valley dams or mining any German battleships in fjords.