>>484690
>>"That doesn't mean that they shouldn't. A war right now would be even more of a loss."

>>484690
>"That doesn't mean that they shouldn't. A war right now would be even more of a loss."

>>484690
>"That doesn't mean that they shouldn't. A war right now would be even more of a loss."

"The real question is if either of us are petty enough to blow up the world with us if we started losing."

>>484690
>Keep quiet for now, you want to pay more attention to the news.

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"That doesn't mean that they shouldn't. A war right now would be even more of a loss." You speak up, not really interested in the news.

"This is the Soviets we're talking about. They are far too invested in international dick-waving." Scorpion responded. "We all learned that back in Germany."

You make to answer her. But the alert siren cut you off.

The response in the room was immediate, everybody grabbed their helmets and bolted out of the room. You were the third to last one out, the hanger was alive with the commotion of ground crews readying the 6 jets for immediate takeoff. You bolted over to your jet as Zeus climbed up into the cockpit, your jet was still in her training loadout, with a data-pod under the left wing-glove and a pair of tanks under the nacelles.

As you began to climb into the cockpit, your crew chief yelled up at you. "Everything is good boss, bring her back in one piece." You nodded to him as you finished climbing into the cockpit. You finished your pre-flight checks quickly and rolled out of the hanger first. You brought the jet onto the taxi-way with the rest of the jets following after you.

"Flight 32, head towards the flight range. Freelancer 2-1, you have command of all elements." The tower controller instructed as you made your way to the runway. "Climb to angles 20 ASAP."

As you turned onto the runway, you hit the brakes to let your wingmate catch up. As they pulled up next to you, you switched on your afterburners on and brought your engines to 70%. A couple of seconds later, you rocketed along the runway, gently pulling up until you were in the air. As you reached roughly the middle of the runway, you pulled up hard, going almost vertical. Your jet's afterburners rocketed you up, eating away the altitude.

You looked back for just a second, and sure enough you could see the Germans just behind you and to your right. You could see the afterburner plumes of the Brits and the French mimicking your power climb.

You levelled off as you reached 20,000 feet. As your comrades raced to reach your altitude, you took the time to check your simulated load.

You had a medium range load, 2 AIM-9s, 4 AIM-7s and 2 AIM-54s. Considering that you were doing interception training, it was a fairly well suited load.

"So Razor." Kay spoke up, sounding slightly strained as she fought the Gs on the way up to you.

>"We'll split up into pairs, we'll be less vulnerable to BVR missiles."
>"We'll stick together. We remember what happened last time we did that."
>Other (write in)

>>484825
>"We'll split up into pairs, we'll be less vulnerable to BVR missiles."

Expect everything ladies and gentlemen

>>484825
>>"We'll stick together. We remember what happened last time we did that."

>>484825
>>"We'll split up into pairs, we'll be less vulnerable to BVR missiles."
We shouldn't get into a pattern of doing things, patterns can be taken advantage of by the enemy.

>>484825
>"We'll split up into pairs, we'll be less vulnerable to BVR missiles."

FUCK

>>484865

WHAT

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"We'll split up into pairs, we'll be less vulnerable to BVR missiles." You order, while this was still a training flight, with simulated weapons loads, you didn't want to be vulnerable to a unit wipe. "Flight 3, separate to our West by 10,000 feet. Flight 4, do the same to our East."

As the 4 aircraft broke off to their new locations, you continued going over your plan. "Me and Scorpion will go nose-hot to search for targets, Slider's flight will data-link off me while Kenji's flight will data-link off Scorpion."

"What about our radars?" Kenji asked as his flight left visual range.

"Keep them off and use your passive sensors, keep your eyes on your IRST." You ordered as your radar came online.

"Multiple contacts. We have 4 contacts high, RCS indicates bombers. We also have 8 contacts level with us, looks like a packed group of fighters. We also have another 2 bandits fast and low." Zeus reported from his post in the back.

"Slider, I want your flight to engage those bombers with your Phoenixes. Kenji, I want you to volley-fire on the low bandits. Scorpion and I will try to split that group of fighters." You give out fire command orders quickly as the distance to the training range decreased. The moment you entered the range, a common cry went up.

"Fox-3!" You call as you hit the missile launch button. Nothing dropped away as all of your weapon loads were simulated, but immediately the range officer spoke up.

"Slammer 2 and 3, KIA. Streaker 1, KIA. Stonewall 3-1, KIA." The range officer listed off the number of simulated kills. In response, 2 of the bombers, one of the low-flying aircraft and a fighter broke away and headed North, having been shot down for the rest of the training mission.

You didn't have much time to celebrate as your RWR started screaming and Zeus spoke up urgently.

"INCOMING MISSILES!" You didn't wait for him to continue before you pulled up and hit your afterburners and dumped chaff.

As soon as your missile warning system went quiet, you levelled off and checked your radar screen.

Aside from the aircraft that were bugging out, there were still 2 bombers at altitude. the 7 fighters had split up into groups, A group of 3 were heading after you and Scorpion's flight while the other 4 jets had split up into pairs to intercept Slider and Kenji's flights.

>Have Kenji and Slider continue engaging their targets, you and Scorpion can volley fire your AIM-7s at the fighters.
>Have Kenji and Slider get some shots off on their targets before switching to engage the fighters. You and Scorpion will focus on the fighters coming after you.
>Have Kenji and Scorpion re-target and engage the incoming fighters. If you can take them out then you can deal with the bomber and low-flying aircraft in turn.

>>484939
>Have Kenji and Slider continue engaging their targets, you and Scorpion can volley fire your AIM-7s at the fighters.

>>484939
>Have Kenji and Slider continue engaging their targets, you and Scorpion can volley fire your AIM-7s at the fighters.

I am guessing that the main objective of the OPFOR here is that the bombers deliver their payloads, which makes our main objective to make sure they don't

>>484960
But that leaves the question of what the low-flying aircraft is?

>>484939
>Have Kenji and Scorpion re-target and engage the incoming fighters. If you can take them out then you can deal with the bomber and low-flying aircraft in turn.

>>484972

Sweeper/Insurance? Not positive but the low flying aircraft have another one of our teams on them

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You immediately opened the comms channel the the rest of your flight. "All aircraft be advised, you have incoming. Continue after your targets but keep your heads on a swivel."

"Are we nose-hot?" Kay asked, essentially requesting to turn on her aircraft's powerful radar.

"Affirmative." You respond as you selected the AIM-7s, the incoming aircraft were coming at you from just under your nose, but you had the height advantage.

"Fox 2." you called out, your cry being mimicked by Scorpion less than a second later. But just as she finished the aircraft were immediately obscured by a blob on your radar.

"They've got jammers!" Zeus stated the obvious. You sighed as your simulated missiles were wasted.

"Well looks like we have to dance." You smirked as you saw the OPFOR aircraft came into view.

>Power climb and pull inverted. You have the power to get past them and dive onto their tail.
>Go head-on. You have the power to zoom past them if your sidewinders and cannon somehow miss. But this goes both ways.

>>485011
>Power climb and pull inverted. You have the power to get past them and dive onto their tail.

>>485011
>Power climb and pull inverted. You have the power to get past them and dive onto their tail.

>>485011
>Power climb and pull inverted. You have the power to get past them and dive onto their tail.

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You power-climbed, pulling your nose to 10 degrees and hitting your afterburners. You rolled so that Zeus could watch the incoming aircraft.

"They're following us up. Looks like Eagles, though the lead aircraft has canards." Zeus reported, just a few seconds later your missile warning receiver started wailing.

You cut your engines and dumped chaff and flares. You then rolled fully inverted and dived, heading towards them, your AIM-9s gained a lock on the incoming aircraft.

"Slammer 1, KIA." The range officer called out.

"4-1 to all units." Kenji called out. "But we have been bounced by F-15s. Requesting support!"

"Fox-2!" You called out as you fired a simulated AIM-9. The incoming aircraft scattered, but your missile found it's mark.

"Stonewall 2-1, KIA." The range officer called out as one of the F-15s dived away. But the second stock F-15 and the upgraded F-15 both turned towards you. Particularly, the upgraded F-15 turned towards you, you were close enough to see that it was an upgraded D model while the other, un-upgraded model was a C model.

"Streaker 2, KIA." The range officer called out, confirming that Slider's flight was dealing with the bombers. But there was still one left.

>Deal with the Eagles. Leave your allies to do their jobs.
>That upgraded Eagle is agile enough to fly circles around you. Get out as fast as you can and drag him elsewhere.

>>485065
>That upgraded Eagle is agile enough to fly circles around you. Get out as fast as you can and drag him elsewhere.

Keep them out of our teams way but we also need to know our limits. Get him into an advantages situation for us and fast

>>485065
>Deal with the Eagles. Leave your allies to do their jobs.

If we get shot down, we should say something sappy and melodramatic to Scorpion right before it happens.

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>>485065
>That upgraded Eagle is agile enough to fly circles around you. Get out as fast as you can and drag him elsewhere.

>>485065
>That upgraded Eagle is agile enough to fly circles around you. Get out as fast as you can and drag him elsewhere.

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If the Canards wasn't enough proof that the upgraded Eagle was bad news, it's ability to snap-turn as good as, maybe even better than an F-16 was more than enough reason to get some distance.

After all, you had one major advantage over them, you were already nose-down.

"2-2, dive now!" You yelled over the comms as you hit the afterburners, quickly breaking the sound barrier as you dived. You kept your dive at 80 degrees so that Zeus could watch your back, and you kept your eyes on your airspeed readout, careful to eek out as much speed as you could without going too fast to rip your aircraft apart from the speed.

"They're still on us." Zeus yelled from his seat in the back as the missile warning siren chimed on.

At this time you pulled up, not because you wanted to avoid the simulated missile, but because you didn't want to hit the very real ground. You dropped flares while rolling, creating a halo of magnesium flares that burned just as bright as your afterburners.

Once again, your missile warning system shut off as the simulated missile lost it's track, but your radar warning receiver still wailed on.

"Zeus, what's on our ass?" You called out as you dived around a hill, silencing your RWR as you broke line of sight with your pursuer.

"Still that upgraded eagle. The other one is on Scorpion." Zeus called out as your RWR started wailing again.

You dragged the 'cat around another hill. Gaining another blissful second of silence before the upgraded-eagle found you again.

"Slammer 4, KIA Stonewall 2-2 and 3-1, KIA." The range officer announced, giving you a bit of good news.

>Get some support from your comrades, even if it's just an AIM-7 shot to distract the bastard on your tail.
>You can deal with him, you just need the right moment.

>>485124
>Get some support from your comrades, even if it's just an AIM-7 shot to distract the bastard on your tail.

There's a reason we fly in flights, just a bit of a distraction might give us the opening we need

>>485124
>>Get some support from your comrades, even if it's just an AIM-7 shot to distract the bastard on your tail.

>>485124
>Get some support from your comrades, even if it's just an AIM-7 shot to distract the bastard on your tail.
It's never the one you're paying attention to that really gets you.

>>485124
>Get some support from your comrades, even if it's just an AIM-7 shot to distract the bastard on your tail.

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As you dragged him through the weeds, you came to realise that even this wouldn't get him off your ass. You needed a distraction that could guarantee that he would have to at least go evasive.

"Any available units, this is Freelancer 2-1. Requesting support." You called out for general help over the comms, even if it cost you some credit.

"Freelancer 3-2 to 2-1. I'm open to help." Durendal responded about a second later.

"3-2, I've got a very agile bandit on my tail and I need support. You got anything you can send my way?" You responded as you dived low around a hill, your jet close enough to the ground that you could see the small form of a coyote on the hill as you passed by at near the speed of sound.

"If you can get him out of the dirt then I can get some Sparrows on him." Durendal reported.

"Understood, climbing." You announced over the radio as you climbed on full afterburners.

"He's still on us." Zeus announced as you climbed well out of ground clutter, up to the perfect altitude for a Sparrow shot.

Best case scenario, he would get hit before he could fire on you. Worst case scenario was that he would kill you before Durendal's sparrow got him.

Luckily for you however, it didn't turn out that way.

"He's breaking off us." Zeus reported as your RWR went silent again. You pulled your stick into your chest and craned your neck back as your bird rolled onto it's back. Sure enough, he was heading back int the weeds.

>After him, don't let him escape!
>Try and find your wingmate and make sure she's clear before going after him.
>Other (write in)

>>485154
>>Try and find your wingmate and make sure she's clear before going after him.
Strength in numbers. Also, thank Durendal for getting us out of that bind, and turn it into a BDSM joke.

>>485154
>Try and find your wingmate and make sure she's clear before going after him.

>>485157
>HE WAS REALLY TYING ME UP THERE

>>485154
>Try and find your wingmate and make sure she's clear before going after him.

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As you watched the agile aircraft dive into the weeds, you decided not to follow him. You still had a wingmate out there that needed support.

"Thanks for getting me out of that bind Durendal. He really had me tied up there." You thanked Durendal as she rocketed overhead, heading to support Kenji's flight.

"T-Thanks." She responded a couple of seconds later. Still obviously embarrassed that her secret had been leaked.

"Freelancer 2-2, where are you?" You asked over the group comms in an attempt to find the location of your wingmate.

"I'm just to your south east. Roughly 8,000 feet away." Scorpion responded, sure enough yo could see the 2 specs of jets racing at low speeds.

"I see you, I'm inbound." You responded as you hit the afterburners. "ETA 30 seconds."

"Can you make it faster? I don't particularly like some stranger trying to get up my ass." Scorpion responded as she pulled her jet into a barrel roll and locked her jet's wings out, attempting to slow down enough that her pursuer would fly right past her.

This tactic worked as her pursuer went rocketing past her, but as soon as they returned to high speed, he hit his air brake, pulled his nose up and made a quarter roll. Thus returning to his original position behind Scorpion.

However, this maneuver left him with very little airspeed, and very open to you.

"Guns, Guns, Guns!" You called out as you switched to guns. While the F-15 had good low-speed manoeuvring capabilities, it wasn't enough to make a difference. You raked your gun-sights over the aircraft and pulled away as the range officer made his judgement.

"Stonewall 1-2 and 4-1, KIA."

As the F-15 hit his burners and left the combat zone, you formed up with Scorpion.

"So, what now boss?" Scorpion asked as you checked your fuel and load. You still had a sidewinder, 2 Sparrows and half of your fuel left.

"Freelancer flight, additional contacts incoming from the North on approach to the base." The tower controller informed you.

>Hunt down that agile aircraft. He can cause a world of hurt.
>Hunt down those incoming contacts. You trust your unit to be able to handle themselves.
>Try and find out what your unit is doing. You need a way of dealing with these incoming contacts.

>>485233
>Try and find out what your unit is doing. You need a way of dealing with these incoming contacts.
Strategy, yo.

>>485233
>Try and find out what your unit is doing. You need a way of dealing with these incoming contacts.

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As you level off, you activate your comms and try to get a feel for what your unit is doing. "Freelancer 2-1 to all Freelancer elements, requesting weapons load and situation update."

"2-2, to 2-1. Armed with 2 Sidewinders and 2 Sparrows. On your 5 o'clock." Scorpion responded immediately.

"3-1, armed with 2 sidewinders and 3 sparrows. Currently searching for enemy aircraft to the north." Slider answered calmly. Apparently distracted with looking for enemy fighters.

"3-2, moving to assist 4-1." Durendal reported, before then announcing a missile launch. "Fox 1."

A couple of seconds later, the range officer reported a kill. "Stonewall 4-2, KIA"

"Now armed with 2 sidewinders and a sparrow." Durendal finished.

"4-1, armed with 1 sidewinder and 1 sparrow. Now RV-ing with 4-2." Kenji reported, sounding slightly out of breath from the constant exertion of dog fighting.

"4-2, Armed with 2 sidewinders only. Now RV-ing with 4-1." Kay reported, sounding slightly hyped up.

"Anybody got the incoming bandits on radar?" You asked the unit, hoping that someone was looking north.

"Yeah. I see 8 fast-movers. Coming in low and supersonic." Kay reported. You want us to intercept?

>Have all flights intercept those fast-movers. That agile fighter must have bugged out.
>Have flight 4 intercept the fast-movers while you and flight 3 look for that agile fighter.
>Have flight 3 and 4 intercept the fast-movers while you look for that agile fighter.
>Have all flights look for that agile fighter, the quicker you can find him the quicker you can focus on those fast-movers.

>>485297
>>Have flight 3 and 4 intercept the fast-movers while you look for that agile fighter.
Would Scorpion be coming with us, or would we be hunting alone?

>>485297
>Have flight 4 intercept the fast-movers while you and flight 3 look for that agile fighter.

>>485303
You would have Scorpion with you, she is in your flight after all. Though the both of you would be pretty separate to cover more ground.

>>485310
Alright, just making sure. Wouldn't want either of us going up against the agile one alone.

>>485297
>Have flight 3 and 4 intercept the fast-movers while you look for that agile fighter.

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With the threat of those fast-movers inbound, you had to make a call quickly. If any of them made it pas you and out of the engagement zone then it would be counted as a mission failure. However, you couldn't have everyone engage those fast-movers without taking out that agile fighter. You had barely kept it off your tail, if it was on anybody else's tail then they wouldn't have been able to shake it before getting a missile up the ass.

"Flights 3 and 4. Engage those fast-movers. 2-2 and I will search for that agile fighter and will try and smoke it." You ordered, even though the other aircraft only had 5 BVR missiles, they had more than enough sidewinders to cover the shortfall. Not to mention that they could fall back onto their cannons if they needed them.

A chorus of affirmatives answered you as you gained separation from Scorpion.

"Spread out and search for him. If you get anything then shout." You ordered Scorpion over your channel to them.

"Understood." Scorpion responded before gaining more separation.

The pair of you searched while flights 3 and 4 moved to firing range on the OPFOR fast-movers.

"3-1 is in range. Fox 2!" Slider reported as she released a missile towards the fast-movers. Less than a second later, she cursed before making an announcement.

"3-1 to all aircraft. Fast-movers have EW aircraft. Advise short-range engagement with sidewinders." Slider announced, though you were pretty sure that the EW clutter on her comrade's radars would have been a big tip-off to that.

"Heads up boss. I've got eyes on." Zeus spoke up from the back.

"Where?" You ask, you didn't see anything.

"Our 4 o'clock. He's in the weeds, looks like he;s trying to sneak onto Scorpion's tail." Zeus reported, and sure enough, he was there. Even though he was on a course that put him behind Scorpion, he could also be trying to evade the pair of you and escape.

>Shoot him down. You can't risk him going after a team mate.
>Leave him, if he wants to leave then that's fine by you.
>Other (write in)

ALSO:

>Tell Scorpion he's heading towards her, this will get her involved but will also tip him off.
>Don't tell Scorpion he's heading towards her, he won't know you've noticed him but she won't expect him if he's attacking.
>Other (write in)

>>485360
>>Shoot him down. You can't risk him going after a team mate.

>Tell Scorpion that he's there, but to hold course while we take care of him.

I wouldn't want to keep forever best girl in the dark about our plan.

>>485360
This guy be stealing my thunder: >>485365

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"Freelancer 2-1 to 2-1. Hold current course, bandit has been spotted." You informed Scorpion over the radio as you turned slightly to the left and gently descended into the weeds. Once you were sure you had broken line of site with the enemy fighter, you shut down your active targeting systems and banked hard right until you were on a heading towards him.

"Where is he?" Vampire asked. "I want to keep an eye on him."

"He should be on your 8 o'clock, moving to your 7." You reported as your jet reached mach 0.9. You held it there so you could slow down quicker when moving to a firing position.

"I see him. Just give the word and we'll move to support you." Vampire responded. As she said that you got a visual on the agile fighter, it didn't see you coming as your targeting systems were cold. You closed the gap until you were only 10,000 feet away, roughly half your sidewinder's range.

"Freelancer 2-1, Fox-1." You called out as you brought your radar guided sparrows online. You pressed the missile launch button as soon as they were hot.

You had to give credit to the OPFOR pilot, he was pretty good. Unlike a number of pilots you know, rather than dumping chaff wildly. He released chaff before diving behind a large hill. Though when he passed back into view you were waiting for him. He knew you were.

You both launched your last sidewinders at the same time. You both evaded in the same way, releasing flares before diving behind hills. Though when you both popped up again you were pointing directly at each other, determined to kill each other with your guns. In that regard he outgunned you with what looked like a GAU-5 gun-pod on his centerline. While the sawed-off GAU-8 wasn't great at range, it had enough spread and firepower that it could gut you at short-range.

But that wouldn't come to pass as the range officer dashed those hopes. "Stonewall 1-1, KIA."

You both passed each other with barely any separation, you looked at jet's crew as you passed and they looked back. But after passing they broke off, heading out of the flight-range while you climbed to join up with Scorpion.

"You know, you owe me for that." Scorpion said playfully. "Oh the joy of having you at my fingertips. Whatever will I do?"

You made to respond, but your comms crackled to life, cutting you off.

"Hammer 2,3,5 and 6, KIA. Screamer 2, KIA." The range officer reported as your comrades laid into the fast-movers. For a second you thought they had it handled.

"Freelancer 3-1 to flight 2. We took a chunk out of them but 3 of them managed to leak out. They are too fast for us to be able to catch up but you are in a great spot to intercept them." Slider reported, keeping you from making a lewd joke back to Scorpion.

"2-1 copies. We'll intercept." You report back as you checked your load again.

You had only 1 sparrow and your guns left. And against an enemy with EW support that sparrow was useless.

>CONT

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>>485407

>Climb and bounce them, try and get the EW bird on your first pass, that way if any of them survive Scorpion's attack they will be open to you sparrow.
>Go supersonic at low altitude and try to force them higher, and away from the ground clutter.
>Other (write in)

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>>485365
>forever best girl
>a potential waifu has been found

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>>485407
>>Climb and bounce them, try and get the EW bird on your first pass, that way if any of them survive Scorpion's attack they will be open to you sparrow

>>485412
She's always been best girl to me. I was the one who called her best girl way back in thread 3 or 4.

>>485409
Climb and bounce them, try and get the EW bird on your first pass, that way if any of them survive Scorpion's attack they will be open to you sparrow.

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"Scorpion, with me." You ordered as you hit your burners and climbed to 7,000 feet, Scorpion was back just behind you. However, as you levelled out, your radar found the incoming aircraft, you could see them both on your radar and with your eyes. From what you could see, there were 3 F-111s, America's answer to soviet aircraft like the SU-24 and TU-22. You guessed that one of them was an EF-111, though you couldn't see it.

"Scorpion, you go first. You still have sidewinders. I'll follow you in." You order Scorpion as you dropped back just behind her to clear her bore-sight of friendlies.

"I've only got 1, but ok then. If you want that to give me some more kills then that's fine by me." Scorpion sounded slightly more smug at having more kills.

Less than a second later, Scorpion began her dive. You dropped back by a good 1000 feet, giving you more time to react when the incoming flight scattered you.

As soon as they saw the pair of you coming, 2 of the aircraft broke off. The one that continued on it's way had a bulge on it's tail, marking it as the EW bird.

Scorpion dived onto the EW bird first, giving herself enough time to release a sidewinder onto the EW bird, before then heading after one of the F-111s that had pealed off. You kept tracking the EW bird with your nose until the range officer confirmed the shoot down.

"Screamer 1, KIA." As soon as you knew he was down, you rounded onto the other F-111.

You had to commend the F-111 crew. They were keeping tabs on you as you dived, but they couldn't evade fast enough to escape you.

You wiped your gun-sights over the mid-section of the aircraft before pulling up.

"Hammer 4 and 2, KIA." The range officer announced as each aircraft was strafed.

You pulled up gently. You dragged your bird up from it's dive gently, not wanting to put it under any more strain. You didn't want your crew-chief to have an aneurysm.

"Yeah!" Scorpion celebrated. "I got more kills than you!"

"No, we drew. You got 2 and I got 2 as well." You responded calmly.

"Oh, damn it." Scorpion said sadly, disappointed that she didn't beat you. You knew she was hoping to beat you on kills at least once.

All you did was laugh as you flew back to base. Happy that you had managed to crush Scorpion's dream of beating you.

As you climbed out of your jet, you contemplated what to do.

>Do something (write in)
>Go have a nap, you are a bit tired.

>>485466
>>Do something
Hang out with Scorpion and Vampire.

Still need another vote.

>>485466
>Do something (write in)
Open the package from the ex

Writing...

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As you climbed out of your jet, you remembered that you still had to open that package from your ex.

"Hey Razor." Zeus called out to you as you began to walk off. "What you doing?"

"I was planning on opening that package." You called back as the sound of engines died down.

Zeus visibly balked, before responding. "Well open that shit outside."

You nodded at him, before you walked back to the barracks. You made your way up the stairs in the barracks and headed into your room. You grabbed the package out from it's space under your bed, slightly glad that it wasn't packed with a timed explosive, else you would be chunky salsa.

You took the package out the back and opened it on a bench. Letting the smell of expensive, rose scented perfume wast out into the open air. As soon as the scent had dissipated, you walked over and inspected the contents of the box.

Inside the box was another letter. Along with some obviously fake roses. They would have had to have been in order to stay in such good state, natural roses would have died and would have started to wilt.

Packed next to the fake roses was a set of underwear, socks and other clothes. There was also a bottle of burgundy at the bottom and a box of chocolates.

You opened the letter at arm's reach avoiding the worst of the inevitable blast of perfume. You carefully pulled out he letter and began reading it.

In the first part of the letter, she apologised for sending you fake flowers, having reasoned that you were busy as you hadn't sent her a letter back. She then went on to explain each gift she had sent you. She sent you spare clothing, reasoning that your current clothes werent as good as the ones she had sent you, you could kinda admit that she was right in that regard, some of your shirts and socks had a few tears and where just generally starting starting to wear-out. She had sent you the alcohol and chocolates as she imagined that you were lonely and needed to have something nice sent your way to distract you from your hard work.

You slightly paled when she said that she had "made the chocolates herself". You didn't want to know what she had put in them, so you would probably toss them.

In the last part of the message she managed to hit the nail on the head in guessing that you were still annoyed at her for what she had done to you previous RIO. She then went on to try and defend herself, saying that she deeply regretted everything she had done. She acknowledged that she had overstepped her boundaries and wanted to make amends. All she asked you for was a chance.

You contemplated giving her that chance as you plundered the package for all you wanted. You chucked the rest away in a nearby bin after burning the letter with your lighter, the amount of perfume still on it made it very flammable.

>CONT

>>485523
You continued contemplating this as you packed your plunder away. On the one hand you didn't want to get your unit in the shit by talking with her, but at the same time you didn't want to talk to her off base as it would be far too easy for her to ambush you.

You decided to leave the decision until later as you climbed down the stairs. Finding Scorpion and Vampire by the entrance.

"Hey Razor. My and Vamps were planning on heading down to the range. Do you want to come with us?" Scorpion asked.

>"Yeah sure. I need to get my skills in order anyway."
>"No thanks. I was planning on checking in with my crew chief."
>Other (write in)

>>485525
>>"Yeah sure. I need to get my skills in order anyway."
Little do they know we're actually an accomplished marksman. Or at least that's what we tell ourself.

>>485525
>"Yeah sure. I need to get my skills in order anyway."

"Yeah sure. I need to get my skills in order anyway." You responded as you followed them out, still in your flight suit as you headed over to the range.

From what you could gather, the base's range was a very recent addition, it was essentially an old building with the war wall lined with scrap metal. You headed over and reported in to the range master, who slid you a box of .45 ACP, some eye protection and headphones.

"You are on lane 3, shoot the target in your lane and don't shoot other people's targets." The very bored range officer laid out to you before you headed over to your lane.

You started with a 2-handed grip, holding the pistol in a braced position. The pistol bucked in your hands as you fired downrange, getting solid groupings. A quick glance over at Scorpion and Vampire's lanes showed that they were getting more rounds down-range.

Not that it mattered, 9mm was a sissy round. The .45 was a great round for stopping a man in his tracks.

You then switched to a single-handed grip and started firing, while the recoil was harder to control and your groupings were slightly worse. It was still acceptable, as in you were hitting the target.

After that, you spent your last reaming magazine of ammunition firing the pistol from a braced 2-handed position with the pistol's suppressor attached. The recoil was slightly lower, so to was easier to control the pistol.

You sent about 35 rounds downrange before your ran out of ammunition. You decided to call it quits then. You cleaned up your spent brass, made your goodbyes to the girls and headed back to the barracks for a well deserved rest. Obviously after picking up some more ammo for your survival kit and spending a bit of time cleaning out your pistol, you wanted it in working order should you ever need it.

You laid down in bed and got rather comfortable, then you remembered that you needed to send a couple of letters. You had wrote replies to both your sister and your parents, but you had yet to send them off. So you took your downtime to take a quick hike to the base's post office.

Thankfully, the line was fairly short so you didn't have to wait long before you could hand over the letter and leave. With that done, you returned to your barracks and took a nap, having a quick rest before your were called up on your next training op.

If you remembered correctly, it was a night op. And those were always shit.

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I'm going to call the thread here. Sorry that it started to wind down at the end there, but I got a bit sidetracked by computer problems, the screen on my laptop died so I had to hook it up to a spare PC monitor that I have.

If you have any questions then feel free to ask. I'll answer them as soon as I can.

>>485545
thanks for the reaad

>>485545
just got home from work, thanks for running Thunder

>>485545

Thanks for running Thunder, really appreciating the pacing you're working with here, not a lot of QM's would be willing to put this much into the training segment and it does a great job of characterizing the supporting cast. Excellent job as always

NEW THREAD IS UP!

>>499203