Military Blunders :(

[Kronos]

Everyone is always posting about those missions that are perfectly executed and go way beyond expectation........ here's one not so good  


No. 272 Squadron organizes for its squad night at a new time. (1st setback).  Load up mission in mission planner, all going well so far. (2nd setback).  Bishops the nice people they are, see the mission and start to fill the open spots.  So, we start to organize a channel for everyone. (3rd setback).  Then mission planner goes bad.
(Ops failure, 4th setback).  Thinking quickly i try to get everybody in the mission to set up manually, and forget to tell them which field to take off of. (5th major setback).  (btw this is an attack from a39, to a38, and dar was down at the very start, another miscalculation on my part.)
Ok, finally everyone is up, half the people in yellow for the mission planner that went bad, half people in green because mission planner went bad.  Anyway, finally, everyone gets up, and we're all strung out. (6th major setback) we've lost surprise, the rooks are on to us and up in force.  The lead elements of our force meet the rooks, and since they are bombers, scream for help.
(like i said, we were all strung out, and fighter coverage was way behind.).... issue order to regroup at a38 to reform, and half the guys didnt hear. Meanwhile 15 rook fighters are screaming down on us.  Finally ended the catastrophe by being shot down myself, and ordering an abort mission.

Learn from our mistakes, folks!

(this should be humorous for all too, as im laughing as i post it.... )

Still it was great fun, and I appreciate all bishops trying to help out.




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Kronos
CO No. 272 Squadron "Whispering Death"
http://members.home.net/wchiasson/no272/

[Hangtime]

Been thru more than a couple of those.. the planner seems to be buggin out this rev.

Good news is the bish are gettin organised; and bugged planner and 'aw toejam's' and all; the guys are flyin the missions and doin their damndest.

Good work Kronos.. keep them missions commin.. and thanks also to those guys that get in there and do the job.

<S!>

Hang

[Maverick]

I wasn't a disaster, it was a learning process. WTG on the attempt!  <S>

Mav

[Wegaman]

No no no!! U guys forgot MY BLUNDER!!  

  When telling someone the target, i accidentally sent this over channe 1 when i meant to do it to channel 2

 "The strike is for 39 to 38"

  I saw it on 1 and screamed. Damn me  

[CavemanJ]

I thought it was a rather entertaining endeaver  

Was alot of fun diving in on the bish fighters as they were trying to regroup around 38.

But I must a commendable effort <S>

[Dowding]

Nevermind kronos. The mission planner was always dropping missions for me in Afrika Korps.

grrrr Caveman.  

We met late on when we tried to attack 30. I was in a la5, you in a nikidweeb, and you got my aileron in a HO. Fortunately, there were enough of us to take you down. We pressed on  - 2 la5s and a spit. Dogbod's spit had elevator damage, my la5 had aileron damage, but we engaged two nikis anyway.

And died.  

LA5 has nothing to offer against the niki except a high roll rate - with only one aileron the la5 isn't very good against the niki.   And I ain't much of a pilot anyway.  

<S> all, was great fun.

[CavemanJ]

Aye Dowding, that fight east of 30 was great fun.  I was expecting to see dots from 27, not from a flattop.  Was a little surprised to see 8-10 of ya'll off my 2oc.  Saw ponies, la5s, and spits and knew I was dead meat, so I decided to take as many of ya'll with me as possible and set off to dance  

I was surprised it took ya'll that long to get me, specially when I got a 1 or 2 of ya    A friend of mine was standing behind me watching and drooling, and started babbling about needing to build a box he could play AH on  

<S> to ya bishbastages in that scuffle =)