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The 501st Nomination period has ended. Please join me in congratulating Andrew Franke @Sly11 as the FISDs Detachment Leader for another term! Congrats Andrew!!

Dear FISD members, I am once again honored with your continuing support as detachment leader for the 2022-2023 term. Thank you. We have a busy year ahead of us, which I will shortly give an update on, but first I’m sure you will want to know who your staff will be for the year. I would like to congratulate Steven Sheades (Starsaber) TK-10466 for taking on the position of Detachment XO. Steve has many years of experience both as one of our DCOGS, but also as a GML, GPRO and second seat in council for his garrison. Thank you Steve for stepping up and taking on your new position. Tim Waychoff (DarkCMF) TK-51878 will be moving into a DCOG roll and offering his expertise with our moderation team. As many of you are aware, Tim has several feathers in his cap, as a prior FISD DL and XO and Attache ambassador. Thank you Tim for taking on the position. This term we will indeed have a DMBO again, it’s been a few years running without this roll filled, but it is time to change that. Please congratulate James Silvius (jsilvus) TK-12953 for joining the team and taking on this challenging position. James held our 15th anniversary coin run, and did so exceptionally. His accounting spreadsheet and immaculate record keeping made my job very easy communicating the fine details with the LMBO team. Thank you James for accepting this position. There are a couple more additions to come to the IPM team as we will be focusing on more improvements to FO CRL's in the very near future. I shall announce those when we are ready to go. All other staff positions are currently remaining the same and are as follows. Deployment Officers Joseph Pedigo (justjoseph63) TK-10963 Mario Reyes (TKSpartan) TK-48117 Jose Sanchez (Chemi) TK-3017 DCOG Chris Pearson (themaninthesuitcase) TK-10911 Dan Branton (Thecableguy) TK-42911 Mark Ryner (captsafe66) TK-4584 DMBO Trading cards Eric Ho (Hoda) TK-42911 DPER AC (NoVaTie) TK-5597 DPRO Christoph (Danny) Lauber (Ripper_L) TK-55550 Tony Jobe (ukswrath) TK-10116 Aaron (Bronx) Gibson (Pyrates) TK-99725 Frank Peranteau (Frank75139) TK-75139 Glen Rhodes (gmrhodes12) TK-85421 Jim Ferrell (Rat) TK-95970 Teresa Nuthall (Soulart) TK-41307 DWM Eric Brager (Darth Aloha) TK-9674 Mathias (Locitus) TK-2959 Founder Paul Hoeffer (Daetirn)TK-8020 What lies ahead The last two terms have focused heavily on the forum refresh, uncluttering archiving and restoring. As you can imagine very time consuming, i also undertook a member data base clean up which hadn't been done in a long time. My vision has always been to leave this place in better condition than I found it, making it easier for anyone that comes after me and giving them a clean pallet into the future. This treatment will continue on this term although alot of the heavy lifting has finished or is nearing completion. This allows us to focus on things that are more beneficial to members, like our various programs, and the introduction of a new one as well. We will lead out this term back to work on our First order CRL updates. Discussion threads are already open, proposals will be written and membership polls set up so you can continue to participate in the evolution of our costumes, their quality and standard. We have a big year with Celebration, the patch sales thread is open until sold out, and I received an update from the vendor today that we have around 200 patches left. If you haven't ordered, now is the time before they are gone. I hope plenty of you have a chance to go to Celebration, meet fellow members, make new friends and have a blast. New Members section update will commence with an adjustment to the forums, a gate keeper so to speak, and hopefully an easier start for those brand new to FISD and costuming. Lets talk about some more fun stuff, like the FISD Coffee table Book. Work will continue, and a larger team will be formed for various parts of the building and design process. This is a huge project and we still have several hurdles to face, before it becomes a reality. It will be a first of it's kind for the detachment, and we can't wait to have more information available to you all. FISD Shirt run, needs to get underway quickly, so I will be working with our new DMBO James. to motivate that into action in the next couple of days. More Merch to come, and we continue to look towards items we haven't done before, we have ideas, we will be working on designs, slot planning and time frames. Now It is time for me to get busy in the background, onboard our new staff members and get the discussion going with your new team on the full plan for the year. Thank you all once again for the ongoing support, and we look forward to serving you all to the best of our ability. With Unquestioned loyalty TK11469 (Sly11) Andrew Franke.

A huge congrats to Andrew! It's always an honor to even be nominated, and perhaps I'll find some other way to contribute to the detachment, but I'm happy to do so under @Sly11's continued outstanding leadership!

Thank you all, and to those also nominated. I will make a formal announcement in the coming hours so please stand by.

Congratulations Andrew here's to a continuing busy year. I would also just like to thank everyone who was nominated.

Who? Just messin, congrats Andrew. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's a bit of trial and error adding pieces into the helmet, hopefully that spot works for you, I find either behind the ears on inside the side cheeks works well.

If you are ready and able to have kitted up images taken you can post your images in our Pre Approval area for feedback, good way to iron out some bugs before applying to your GML (garrison membership liaison) https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/193-request-tk-pre-approval/

Not sure I fully understod the drawings but….with the original armor, this is how the armor is supposed to line up.

Congratulations Andy. Keep up the good work. Pipertrooper TK-27056

Congratulations Andrew!

Look at you with your shiny new Detachment staff badge. Thank you James for stepping up to a new challenge.

Congratulations Andrew! Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

Congratulations Andrew!!!

Congrats Andrew, a staff

Let’s try this again; IC-70572 requesting 501st access… https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=34530&costumeID=73

Congrats Andrew. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats Andrew.

Congratulations! Looking forward to this busy year of further development! Glad to have you as our glorious DL. You have my full trust, Andrew! Thanks to all involved as staff and thanks to all nominees

A close race, surely. Well done mate! :duim:

Congratulations Andrew, and thank you

Congrats, Andrew! [emoji322] Sent from my Imperial Communicator

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A HUGE congratulations Sly11!!!!! Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

Congrats Andrew! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats on your purchase. I have two AP kits and I love them - one is a TK and the other is a sandtrooper. I have detailed builds for both here on the forums. Let me know if you have any questions. And don’t worry… I didn’t have a hot clue how to do any of this stuff - if I can sort this craziness out, so can you.

Thank you both so much for your responses! I figured this might just be a dead post, but I really appreciate your help! I definitely know now what you mean about noisy power now lol. I rewired everything to run off my 4.8v green pack. And while it all "worked" I was getting a ton of feedback if I switched the fans on. But your absolutely right with the two batteries, I think that's probably really the best way to go. I got my fan on the power bank, and I bought a separate battery for the velleman, after testing the system. It only 3.7v 500 mah so I guess we'll see how long it lasts, during a troop. Lol P.S. 3.7v should be plenty right? The kit came with 3 AA so I figured it'd be fine. Somehow I got it all to fit in my helmet, I have the velleman piped out in to some headphones, and also piggybacked my radio comes into the same speakers. And let me tell you.. coolest part is hearing your mates over a com channel, instantly makes you think you're really in star wars Then I got my fan and voice amp mic, plus a ppt button for the radio in there. As you can see, this one is going in my Mando helmet Again I really appreciate yours guys help! Very awesome of you!

I had to adjust my backplate as well. How is everything going? Sorry for the late response. Kinda sold my home way before my new place was ready so I have been living in various air bnb's since October lol.