ARCHIVED: Osprey Wings (IC; Closed)

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'Chock's' tennis ball bounced off the cement walls in the Ready Room. He was four hours into waiting for... nothing. But that was the routine of a man in the service was it not? Hurry up and wait... he thought to himself.

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The room he sat in was darkly lit, and rather damp. Without their ego driven wall art with pictures of aircraft and wingmen past, their squad room would've represented any other drab white room throughout the base. This room was different though, reflecting the character of Chock's squad.

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On each of his shoulders sat two silver bars, denoting his captain's rank. His faded salt and pepper hair and rugged face had come quickly for his 30 year old body, but flawlessly represented not only his firebrand personality, but also the airframe he flew.

A knock came at the door, and in entered an airman, barely passed the age of 20. Without a word he handed the envelope in his hand to the Captain, and departed. Intrigued, Chock dropped the tennis ball in the cupholder, and cut open the letter with his pocket knife. A smile crept up on his face as he finally had something to do.

TO: BULLY FLIGHT CO
FROM: 112th WING CO, SCANDIGRAD CITY AB
SUBJ: OSPREY WINGS

Chock,

For some reason they've decided they want us to send the close air support for this year's OSPREY WINGS exercise. And for some god-awful reason I've decided to send you and your boys. Your flight will report to Clarksville AB on 10JAN15, NLT 2000 hours. You'll be receiving formal orders on all of this later, but I thought I'd give you the heads up so you could let your boys know. Good luck, and hope the 'Hogs give 'em hell. Fuck 'em up.

Still a better Hog driver than you,

-COL Blackeye

The letter may have been informal, it was signed off with his callsign after all, but Chock wasted no time pinning the letter on the calkboard underneath one of the many pictures of the A-10 throughout the room. In sharpie he added the names MUD, MACE, and SCORCH; the rest of his flight.


BULLY Flight, A-10, Scandigrad City AB

CPT Michael "Chock" McGowen
1LT Hans "Mud" Anderson
1LT Samantha "Mace" Carlton
1LT Conor "Scorch" Li
 
0600 hours
Criovera Airforce Base
104th Air Wing



Over the loudspeakers the voice of the Captain Mitchell Hues comes on:
"1st Support Squadron report to the planning room at 0630 hours for mission briefing."

"Ugh about time we got do something", said Jacob "Razor" Fuetterer as he began packing. Standing at 6'1", a Criovera native, Jacob leads the 1st Support Squadron. Nicknamed Razor because of his deadeye precision on the gun.

Considered among the best of the entire Egalotir Airforce and trained on multi-role F/A-18 Hornets there isn't anything this squad couldn't handle.

With him stood Leonhard "Eagle" Schuemers, Angus "Steak" Wilburn, and Dimitri "Madman" Cullimore.

"OOooo man you know I'm ready to fly against some real targets for once. You guys know what we're heading into?" asked Schuemers. 5'8", dark hair and a mean face. Graduated first in his class at flight school, he was Fuetterer's wing man. They call him Eagle because his maneuvering is the best of the squadron. He considers himself the king of the skies.

"I heard it's some sort of training convention or something. Either way I'm excited to drop more live ammo!!!" exclaimed Cullimore. standing 6' tall, with bright blonde hair and always a smile on his face, they called him Dimitri the Madman. Nothing got him more excited than seeing his targets explode into fireballs of twisted metal. His ground attack scores are the best in the airforce.

"Alright guys let's head out there, don't want to keep the captain waiting again do we Madman?" noted Wilburn. 5'11", a skinny but strong Egalotirian. Nicknamed Steak for obvious reasons.

"Hey man that time was not my fault. I had one target left, the storms were still a ways out, and we made it back in one piece!" joked Madman.
"That's not happening again." said Razor, with a stern look at Madman.

They all got their gear together, put on their flight suits and headed out to the mission control building.

"Alright listen up everyone. We have some good news for you guys. We have been invited to this year's OSPREY WINGS by Scandigrad. It is a joint training exercise. You'll be flying over in F/A-18s and you'll be briefed on your missions daily. Show these guys what a real airforce can do. Dismissed". The captain stood up, saluted his men, and walked out.

"Alright you heard the cap, let's go fuck some shit up!" yelled Madman in excitement.

The men went on their way to prepare their planes to fly over to Clarksville AB, in Scandigrad.
 
The Guslant Air Force Base was crowded with pilots as the Gamma Squadron suited up for the flight to Scandigrad. The four pilots were Amy Fitzgerald, Vick West, Bernie Evans, and Mack Diggers.

"Listen boys, this training exercise will be intense, but I know that the Guslants will be successful!" said the enthusiastic leader of Fitzgerald as the four took off in the direction of Scandigrad.
 
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