[The_Admiral]

Extra-Territorial Air Command
He who controls the skies, controls the battlefield

Goal

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The Extra-Territorial Air Command (ETAC) started its life as the Sky Aces, a crack team of flying mercenaries. During the first world war, the team was an integral part of the training of the pilots of the untested airplane.

Over the years it has moved away from its origin in airplanes and become an go anywhere mercenary group, lacking only in tanks. It was quietly nationalized by the US government a few years back for its personnel resources.

The personnel obtained from the Air Aces, were then transferred to the newly created Extra-Territorial Air Command (ETAC) with the goal of allowing the other departments unfettered access to this new world and if needed, Close in air support.

Captain James Remy

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Born and raised in Kansas, he was the stereotypical army boy, and he followed that stereotype to the letter. He joined the army and was placed as a pilot. A few years in world war two started and he was among the first pilots deployed to Europe.

In the war he distinguished himself as a pilot capable of out-flying most of the Germans. During the war, he survived five "suicide" missions and managed to outfly the German jet interceptors in a mustang.

One of his most distinguishing moments in the European theater was over Berlin. It was just supposed to be another daylight bombing raid and with the drop fuel tanks, it was supposed to be a cinch. It wasn't. He got his extra fuel tanks shot off on the way to Berlin, ignoring all common sense and orders, he stuck with the bomber until Berlin, and ran out of fuel on the way back. He crawled his way back to HQ heavily injured and earned a medical discharge, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Purple Heart.

He recovered and joined the Air Aces, quickly becoming one of its top pilots.

Then the aces were nationalized, he was shuffled around a bit, doing a short stint as a pilot trainer. Finally, he was plopped into the role of commander of the Extra-Territorial Air Command (ETAC) and allowed to handpick a team of pilots for the job.

1st Special Operations Squadron

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A handpicked team of expert pilots and technicians, all of them either from the Air Aces or people James knew from his stint in the army, picked for their ability to maintain or pilot almost anything that flies.

Military (MIL) (High quality, low quantity. A real bunch of aces, but aces are rare.)
Morale (MOR) (Medium quantity and quality. They trust that James knows what he is doing)
Research (RES) (High quality, low quantity. The technicians are the best of the best, oftentimes developing new toys for use by the pilots. Sadly the best of the best are obviously rare.)

Industry (IND) (The technicians do have to get "creative" in keeping the planes running.) (Only if it doesn't unduly impact the other stats)

Specialty: aerial transportation/scouting/combat

DIFFERENT NAMES!

Also general organization structure that I'm planning on clobbering together.

Squadrons are the smallest compulsory organizational structure in the ETAC. Squadrons are organized into groups that are separated by bases (One group per base. I'm hoping for multiple bases later in the game) Groups are organized into Wings(one Wing for one stretch of territory) which are all organized into the ETAC.

EDIT: What is the name of our first base?