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Good to see you back Joe. Now that your done slacking get out there and kick butt.

Hmmm, wellll, mmmm, uh. Ok its only an hour and a half away, shucks why not.

I understand your position Tony. It just irritates me that the legion didn't put a stop to this when it started and now there are a bunch of people that slap different parts of costumes together and figure that they saw it in a comic so it must be fine. Most if not all of the referance material that is being used to support TK's wearing pauldrons was written by those that had no understanding of their use and thought it looked cool to slap one on. Its the same with boob armor for example. I bet if I wanted to spend the time and effort i could find 3 examples with all the comics out there and present it to the legion. With 3 examples I could get it made an acceptable costume. How would that look? Not very good but when you start the trend with pauldrons where does it stop? I feel the MEPD, expecially our leadership, should be activly persuing this matter with the legion leadership. If these guys want to wear them at non canon or non official events then I really don't care as I know what is right (just look at the kilted troopers) but at least on the website have the TK's wearing pauldrons resubmitt pictures without pauldrons. Or if there are official legion or garrison pictures being taken have them removed off the TK's. Is not the legion looking to the detachments such as ours, the sith lords and others to get guidance from them as to what the standards are for their respective costumes? If so we should stress that they are part of a TD's costume, not a TK's. Am i being protective of our right to wear pauldrons? Heck yea. Pretty soon TK's are going to be slapping on backpacks also (actually I have seen this done allready) and ammo pouches, there was referance material to support that posted in that thread. Pretty soon the only difference is going to be that we put on some dirt so what incentive will there be to become a TD? Anyways, peace brother TD, i will quite rambling on now.

International bounderies mean nothing, your a brother trooper and of course your welcome.

Gee, I remember when the 501st use to take their "costuming" to the next level. Now were looking at comic books to justify diluting that level of professionalism. Sad, very sad. To stand by and not say anything is to be part of the problem. Avatar man you brought up an excellent point in my opinion.

Interesting topic in regards to TK's wearing pauldrons going on, the legion membership officer is considering whether to allow TK's to wear pauldrons and is looking for reference material to support allowing them to wear pauldrons. You might want to chime in with your opinions on whether TK's should be allowed to wear them or if its a TD piece of gear. The discussion is going on over at the legion website http://www.501stforums.com/forum/viewtopic...der=asc&start=0

Yep, everytime I visited last night my AVG went crazy. Fortunatly it picked it up as soon as it happened, while still at the main page, and I was able to go in and delete the file. It kept putting it in the C:Documents and Settings(insert name here)Local SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5 folder. Sucked, but at least I was able to catch it before it could harm anything.

I have some extra V2 patches. I would be willing to trade one for a 501st legion patch.

Hyperdyene has been out of the trooper boards for quite a while now. I recently purchased one of his vortex boards an am extremly pleased with it. One feature that is very handy is that the input/output uses only one channel of the stereo (the left I believe). You can hook up an extra microphone to the other input and have it output to a speaker in your helmet. Now if that extra mic is placed somewhere outside your armor inconspicuously you can pipe in to your helmet outside noise i.e. others talking to you making it so much easier to hear all those questions everyone around you are asking. Also it has a feedback cancelling feature that works fantasticly. I am able to turn my amp up full volume without any feedback at all.

Yep, music. I have the Imperial March and the Star Wars theme on a cd along with some radio chatter. Of course if I get tired of hearing them all day I could allway pop in some Pink Floyd. And boy that sucker can be loud at full volume.

Got in just fine, everything is working also. PM's worked, browsing around worked and if this post then posting worked.

I finally got around to getting some pictures of my pack uploaded. There under my album if you want to check them out.

Somebody will allways have to drive/fly/ride farther than someone else. Los Angeles to Indy is 2062 miles while New York to Indy is 723 miles so west coasters have allways had to go twice the distance as east coasters. So the Celebration is no where even close to being roughly equal from coast to coast. I go yearly to a convention in Vegas and every major hotel offers free shuttle service to the convention center and Vegas now has a tram system that will take you anywhere on the strip and to the convention center for just about 3 bucks, much cheaper than a cab. Heck for 45 bucks a night I get a room at the Sahara which is basically right next to the convention center. I am sure that Las Vegas is campagning hard to get this event moved to their city as that is a huge source of income to them and they are probably the convention capitol of the world. I am sure they are pumping a lot of resources into getting this moved because as they see it convention goers = gamblers. They are probably even offering lots of incentives to move it there. I think a lot of east coasters would show up because as was said earlier "its Vegas, baby. After going to the con you can walk five minutes in just about any direction and get a great meal at a fantastic resteraunt, gamble, hit the bar, hit the dance floor, see a big name concert or a broadway style show. It would be like taking 2 vacations at once. Personally I think it would be a good thing to move it to Vegas, I give the idea a big thumbs up.

Yea, camel pak's are great for trooping.

Nice. The only problem I see is that weapon you have there, you need to weld that thing on if you plan on keeping it there because it will end up as someones souviner. People sometimes think we are a walking souviner shop and will actually try to pull pieces of your armor off to take home.