Well I guess it's time for my 2 cents worth. The USMC squad and the FB use to fly together pretty regularly but I have to admit we have had a falling out of sorts in the last year or so and I think it comes down to a different style of game play. The FB and the USMC/TFW are both strat squads but we do things differently. For example:
(1) We use to put up missions like the FB's do now, but since our growth, we generally have enough people online to run our missions internally there by significantly decreasing the time it takes to repond to changes on the battle field. So we get a little frustrated when their missions tie up 20 or 30 pilots waiting in the tower for 10,15 or 20 minutes before launch when they have the same number of people. Other complaints I have heard concerning FB missions is that they take pilots away that are needed in other areas to perform missions that one may question their tactical soundness, causing knights to lose more bases than they capture. I have also heard that they want people to join their missions but they won't join anyone elses.
(2) I flew a mission with them the other night and though it went ok, I made the recommendation enroute to drop the FH's (a standard USMC /TFW procedure) instead of proking fuel or ammo and after dropping 3 of the 4 FH's, some one made the comment to leave the last one up so we can vulch which left a bad taste in my mouth becuase it made it seem or confirm the belief that they were more interesed in score whoring than taking the base. The USMC/TFW are not concerned with scores which leads our squad to wonder why it seems to take the FB an incredibly long time in base capture? is it due to lack of planning, coordination or score whoring? From our perspective, it appears to us that the FB's fail in their missions more than they succeed but that may be more subjective than objective.
In sumation, we're annoyed at the fact that their missions take too long to launch, tie up too many pilots for too long of a time unneccisarly, questionable mission targets and either takes them for ever to capture a base if they even capture it at all. Don't get me wrong we don't hate the FB's and Raptor and I are good friends and will never let a stupid game interfere with our friendship. In fact I plan on flying more FB missions to get a hangle on what is fact and what is not