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Daetrin

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  1. It would be under TE-derived. We didn't split AP out last time, as we had just TE-HIPS and TE-ABS. Should we break it out this time, you reckon, or keep it with TE-derived like MTK, TE, TE2, CAP? Usually those percentages weren't big enough to break out.
  2. The last time we did this was September 3rd, 2010. It's time to get new data. What we want to know is, what armor / helmet are you wearing? This poll will run for 3 weeks. FWIW, MEPD has historically had the lowest percentage of FX helmets Legion-wide. I suspect we'll see the same this year Lastly - possible to make this a sticky for the poll duration?
  3. Old news... This is from a post I did on FISD in 2006.... http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/380-the-stormtrooper-effect/ A person on the same forum replied: "Nice analysis. I think the baddies in any movie, including those made long before SW, always get wasted en masse by the heroes. They wouldn't be heroes if they couldn't, right? Watch a WWII flick and you'll soon lose count on the number of nazis that are mown down by just a handful of guys - remember 'The Dirty Dozen'? Maybe they're picking on the poor stormies just because SW happens to be one of the most popular and high-profile movies of all time. Does this include the pilots?" My interpretation was: "Probably not. The rebels lost all but two pilots (Wedge/Luke) in ANH, with the impression that all were lost in ship to ship combat. And IIRC, Han barely escaped by the skin of his teeth in ESB. The rebels weren't doing too hot in ROTJ until the Death Star got defeated either." Below are my thoughts from the perspective of my alter ego, TK(TD)8020. OK, I just have to defend our guys in black and white. First off, I was there in docking bay 94. Our orders were to stop the ship. The only reason that scruffy Correlian lived was because we weren't aiming for him. If we killed him and the ship got away we'd be disobeying orders, so everyone aimed for things like the insystem flight controls to keep them from taking off, or to cripple them so they couldn't run in case they did get off. That was the priority. Yeah, a few of us bought it, but not everyone had the opportunity to run for cover & there was a pretty powerful laser cannon swinging our way...I like to think we were able to soften up at least the lateral controls. My buds in orbit said it wasn't maneuvering all that well and they barely escaped. Now I wasn't on the Death Star when all that hullaballoo went on (though I was earlier), but I talked to another of my buds who was, and he said that Vader had issued orders that those prisoners were not to be killed and to let them get away. So all that running around escaping bit you hear about? Well let me tell you they were only supposed to keep up enough fire to keep them running, not to kill them. At any cost. And the ship escaping? Same thing, he was in the docking bay (what a coincidence - both of us doing the same thing) and he told me that they were told just to aim to miss, e.g. let them get away. Why? Vader's idea. Dumb move if you ask me. So us guys in white did an outstanding job when you understand what was going on. And the TIE pilots? Again, they kicked some major butt. Only two rebel ships plus that frieghter got away - the rest destroyed in ship to ship combat. Yeah, our TIE guys don't get nearly enough credit as they deserve. Endor? Jeesh, I never hear the end of it. Listen, those guys were all ROADs (retired on active duty) and guys out of basic. Apparently the higher ups thought Endor duty was pretty low risk what with all the other hardware around, and it was just after holiday. Most of them were pretty toasted. And my cousin who's in intelligence and watched some of the classified security tapes told me that they were very much outnumbered, more so than the general public was led to believe. As if a small band or so locals could defeat troopers. As if. There were a lot more of those little fur coats around and a lot of them bought it before our troops were overwhelmed. Dirty little secret the rebels didn't want to reveal - made them look much tougher than they really were. OK long story short. We've gotten a lot of flack and some writers and what not have tried to lump us in with the sorry suckers of other military forces, but the reality of the situation is that we're the elite, and don't go down as easily as we're made out to be. TK/TD-8020
  4. Awesome news and congrats. Seems appropriate a dirty trooper is out in the jungle.
  5. When only the best will do: Star Wars and stormtroopers! Probably the greatest troop the Legion has ever done, 200 members from around the world, assembled for the Rose Parade. For those of us who participated, perhaps the best experience trooping we've ever had. For others, I hope that some day there comes another opportunity to not only gather in such a large number, which was part of it, but also the shared effort that brought everyone together. Else it would have been just a large turnout. At the time my TK was not where it needed to be to take to Pasadena so I ended up using the TD instead. I'm the black pauldron the front right. For my brothers & sister in the Legion, I raise a glass and as a toast wish you all a prosperous and happy 2013. May your life be filled with good times.
  6. TM is not entirely fan sculpted either. And, let's face it the person selling FX was not the original sculptor either, but is the most scrupulous of the FX makers. We all know there is OK and not OK recasting, and it's been this way for quite some time, and it's childish to pretend otherwise. At the end of the day we make rules that protect our membership. There is always an element that will use the argument of "it's all recast" to further their lies and personal agenda's, but that cry is not made for the benefit of the membership, or the community, but is solely out of a need for personal gain.
  7. Looks like MEPD has finally hit 200 deployed troopers. This is a huge achievement. With 600 sandtroopers, it means 1/3 are deployed. No other detachment can claim such success with their deployed program.
  8. I've watched both eps - they're awesome! Glad I still have my flight suit. I'm going to get a back tattoo too - first one I ever saw that I'd really want.
  9. This is just routine maintenance by our hosting provider, site may be down for 30+ minutes. Carry on...
  10. Sorry it's not full, but well I had to have some before I got my camera. Cheers to my dirty brothers.
  11. Isn't that like the sandtrooper guarding the blue milk? I keed, I keed. Congrats Gordon - I'm sure you'll do a great job
  12. Alas, some of her facts are not quite right. Brian Muir sculpted the suits. What's that quote? Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty?
  13. Hahahahaha. Not accurate but I'll stick with the mesh. Helmet hair is bad enough and it's hot enough already w/o the balaclava.
  14. Awesome work guys! Who can say no to a son asking for armor. Or heck, my daughter. What size body are you making this for?
  15. Sorry I don't post as much as I used to back in the day...I think Juan's comments were spot on. The tube stripes will need to be re-done, but I'd not be so picky to hold you back for that as they are an easy fix. The one item I will hold you up for is the fitting of the forearms. They look very Popeeye and this is not unheard of when people try to put them together as-is from ATA. Alas the right one is not the same as the left, and one really needs to trim both down to look correct if you have regular/small forearms. The biceps also look a tad big, but I'd almost want to see them in person or via different pix. You're friendly neighborhood GML...
  16. I thought SethB set up a supporter flag way back when for one time, but I could be wrong. CTN certainly had one as did FISD. When the time comes we'll post in the announcements again. Also, we'll try to make a target for each detachment, e.g. say if the total cost was $100 and MEPD used 30% of the bandwidth, our goal would be $30.
  17. Despite all our efforts, we've been unable to address the CPU usage that started two months ago and set off the firestorm with our hosting provider, Site5. Lucas, Brent, Eric, Matthias all have put in countless hours analyzing the site usage, tweaking settings, pouring over logs and forums to see what could have accounted for this change. In the end Site5 has run out of patience and we were given the choice of being shut down or moving to a VPS (virtual private server). The only downside to the VPS is that it costs more - a lot more - to host. However given that this host will contain FISD, MEPD, SLD, IOC, and the PacOutpost, between the lot that's a lot of members and if we judiciously and fairly pass the hat we should be able to cover the expenses. What does this mean for you? 1. There will be some downtime as we move off of a shared host to a dedicated host. Site5 will perform this work and it should be minimal. 2. We will return to the days of asking for support from our membership each year, just like the Legion forums do. Back in the early days (2006) this was not uncommon really and CTN, FISD, and MEPD used to do this (that I was directly involved in). Then we hosted with V'Pier and our costs plummeted, removing the need. However we've grown quite a bit since then and have outgrown V'Piers server, and now have outgrown a shared server. So, think of it as going back to our roots. Matthias & Eric can provide the gory details on traffic usage and actions taken, and perhaps there may be enough bright linux administrator folks out there who can figure out how to do what we did better and bring CPU usage back down, however as of today we are out of time and have to move. If there are any questions regarding this, please chime away. With unquestioned loyalty, Daetin TK-8020
  18. You're awesome Eric!!! Thanks so much
  19. Daetrin

    Beret

    OK, I'm not as active as I used to be and my memory is more of a sieve than a steel trap as I get older, but I can say for sure that the original policy was deployed only. In fact Mike had thought about giving one out to each new deployed officer as a gift. IOW, my recollection is the same as Juan's. The thread you'd need to find is the one that changed this.
  20. The only thing I've deviated on is using flight gloves over rubber ones. Never tried to troop w/o a neck seal and actually have had mine sewn in to my underarmor, so it's a bit impossbile to do and never had a problem. I have had problems with some pauldrons pushing up to the helmet though. That is solved with shaping the paudron to fit me better, and for one of my garrison mates also a square or two of velcro to help keep it in place.
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