234-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 21st, 2552 – Recover, Regroup, Reload, Repeat. Goldbricking Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I was sent here to rest and recoup before heading home, and once the dispatches were given I was told that it would take them a day or two to gather the supplies, duty done— I decided to make the […]

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233-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 20th, 2552 – R&R&R Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I have been cleared for light duty after yesterday’s adventure, which is actually better than my drill instructor got. Given the choice of running through the course without a gun or taking a demotion and being relegated to a subordinate position, he opted for […]

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232-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 19th, 2552 – Live Fire Drills Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I don’t know who’s brilliant idea it was to have live-fire drills, but if I find them… I’m going to stick them in a ‘scenario’ involving bullets, lasers, and no weapons and see how well they do. Duct tape may be involved. […]

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231-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 18th, 2552 – Ground movement Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Building on the work done in the obstacle course, we’re now working on unit movement. Useful things like how to cover your teammates with your dispatches while they cross an open area and how to sweep a room as well as how to […]

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230-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 17th, 2552 – Fire Arms Training Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Firearms training without a firearm is like… taking a course in cooking without food, or a kitchen for that matter. We got an idea of the principles behind the process and the rules of the range but there was no direct application. […]

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229-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 16th, 2552 – Obstacle course Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today we focused on the obstacle course that the officers set up in the main assembly hall on the Valhalla. The trouble began almost immediately when they realized me and my fellow criminal contingent weren’t allowed to carry weapons. There was a very […]

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228-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 15th, 2552 – Transport- Circus Style Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting We spent the better part of the morning learning fleet maneuvers and escort details. From the beginning, the military decided that the civilian pilots would be best flying the transport vehicles, while they flew escort, but if we’ve learned one thing – […]

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227-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 14th, 2552 – The Flying Circus Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting It would seem that the Flying Circus works better in two teams of three breaking into three teams of two with a pair acting as the net to go where they’re needed. I mean, most aerial combat is based on an X-Y-Z […]

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226-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 13th, 2552 – Formation flying Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting While the non-pilot cross-training crew members worked on marching – the pilots worked on formation flying and team tactics. We learned about flying with a wingman and protecting your wingman. That’s harder than it sounds especially for non-military types – we’re used to […]

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225-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars

August 12th, 2552 – Hauling and Toting – 200 Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-Gate Navigator/Grunt Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting While I’m not the only cross-trained pilot, up until today I was the only Pilot/Mechanic/Jump-gate navigator in the fleet. Today we are adding /Grunt to the title. Oddly enough cross-training with the military involves a lot of the lifting and […]

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