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NEW

In Memoriam

Detachment Leader

Merchandise Officer

Hall of Fame

FISD Meme's

Around the Detachment

Costume Totals

Trooping Opportunity

 

INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS

FISD Tri-Fold Brochure

Common FISD Acronyms and TK Glossary

Pre Approval Forum

3D Section

Field Exercise Award

Imperial Attaché Program

Master Armorer Award

Fire Teams

EIB & Centurion: What do these terms mean?

Need Help Ask the Deployment Officers

Advance to 1500

Advanced Tactics Awards

Newsletter Editor

Staff List 2023
Follow FISD

 

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With heavy hearts we mourn our member Stefan Ofner (ID-23008), who died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Stefan has been a member of the Austrian Garrison since November 2016. Not only that he represented the Detachment officer excellently with several uniforms. From 2018-2020 he was GMB and from 2019-2020 GPR.
He will remain in our memory. Always open, friendly and ready to do the good thing. He also had an open ear when needed. He was able to inspire many with his drive. Thank you for letting us meet you.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends and wish them all strength during this difficult time. Rest in peace, Stefan! We will miss you!

"Buckets Off"

 

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Greetings troopers!

 

It seems we live in interesting times. You may have noticed that the name of the detachment leader has changed a bit ahead of the normal cycle. To see how we got here please have a read of this post https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/54568-resignation-of-detachment-leader-joseph-justjoseph63/ and https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/54596-message-from-new-detachment-leader/

 

A familiar face is coming back as the new XO @Sly11 and he will be showing me the ropes.

 

By now most of you should have been receiving your shield patches from the last term. The DMBO team did a great job on these, and I look forward to seeing them on jackets, hoodies & shirts soon. I am excited to show mine off but I am putting off sewing that big back patch!

 

Whilst there have been some changes over the last week, the team had already been hard at work for the new term. Now that legion teams are starting to be ratified we should soon see some movement and hopefully will have more to tell you next month.

 

I have a couple of pairs of large shoes to fill, but I am hoping to rise to the challenge.

 

Before I go I would also like to let you all know about the legion funding drive currently happening.  For those of you who are not aware FISD is hosted along side the main legion forum. Whilst we have some of our own costs, the legion covers the majority of the cost of keeping our lights on.  If you have not already done so please check the main legion thread on this here: https://www.501st.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=113646

 

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Chris Pearson 

TK-10991  "themaninthesuitcase"

Detachment Leader

 

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:tkbig:Greetings Fellow Troopers!:tkbig:

I hope all of you are well and are starting to get out and troop here in the new year. The weather in the Mid Atlantic portion of the US is starting to warm up and the days are getting longer so soon we'll be able to get outside and start some of our costume projects that require paint and sanding. On to the Business of Merch!

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Old Business

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The #SecretMerch Item is well on the way. The factory in China having been closed for the observation of Chinese New Year for most of February has finally sent us color proofs for approval. I got with the SpecOps MBO and we approved the colors and requested that Manufacturing begin. Pfab tells me that he expects that coins will start shipping late March/early April. I'll post any updates on the Sales Thread located here:

Secret Merch Item

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The Rocker run is closed. @MaskedVengeance has placed the order soon, so hopefully they will be in your hands in the next 6 - 8 weeks. I'm very jealous of those that can wear these. I'm working on building my new AM kit to EI standard so that I can help "Advance to 1500".

Rocker patches.

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The Banner patch run is closed. The orders have been confirmed and we are now waiting for updates from the factory for color proofs. Once I have any more updates, I will post them in the sales thread, located here:

Stormtrooper Banner Patch

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New Business

As many of you know we lost a pillar in the community a while ago. We are working to create a Memorial Patch for Terrell Reber of ATA. We have an interest thread running here for those that are interested. It will be closing soon, so please let us know if you would like to participate.

 

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We are still working on this years plan for merch. Racing Shirts, Tee Shirts, Baseball Hats, "war" banners, coins, patches and a few other items are on this list of items we are discussing. Look for more updates, interest threads, and a design contest or two coming very soon to the Detachment Merch and Detachment Only Merch Threads! If you aren't already subscribed to them get alerts for new post, you should do so soon!

Go here and follow!

https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/47-detachment-merchandise/

https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/272-detachment-merchandise-only/

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If you have any thoughts, suggestions, comments or concerns about FISD Merch or Branding, my "virtual" door is always open. Hit me up, you can reach me via email, forum DM, or find me on Facebook. Here is to another year of great FISD merch!

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

James Silvius

TK-12953 "jsilvius"

Merchandise & Branding Officer

 

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Now this is how every parade should be, amazing photo Helen!

 

Please welcome TK-42085 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, February 2024!

@mamaking Troop log can be found here.

 

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Other HOF recipients can be found here.

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With Unquestioned Loyalty 

Jonatan Östling 

TK-23592 "Nairy" 

Attaché Ambassador

 

 

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You can find the full meme thread here

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Trading Card Archives

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For those with FISD detachment trading cards please consider sending two to Paul @Daetrin keeper of our detachment archives.

Address and more info here

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Paul Hoeffer

TK-8020 "Daetrin"

Detachment Founder

Keeper of Archives

 

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Currently (as of 13th March 20224) there are 33,334 approved costumes in the legion, out of these under FISD there are 5160 which is 15.45 % of all approved 501st costumes. This percentage has been dropping for the last few years, the larger the legion costume totals grows the smaller amount of TK's there are.

 

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Info can be found in the legion holocron

 

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LFL Retail Moratorium Lift 

 

While there is currently a retail moratorium on character appearances in effect, it is being lifted May 3-5 at retailers selling Star Wars Related merchandise during the May the 4th fan holiday. We are also happy to allow appearances at theaters screening The Phantom Menace during this time.

 

All fans, costumed or otherwise, can participate with venues of their choice within this window with the restriction that costumed appearances must not be used in the advertising for the event. Although these appearances will be treated like an open invite, we’ll leave it to the fan groups to independently organize around these events as they see fit. LFL will not need to approve or coordinate these. Please note that retail locations should not include restaurants, bars, or venues with no apparent reason to feature Star Wars characters.

 

In the coming weeks, we may send out a list of ‘preferred’ retailers and theaters who would welcome fans to participate at their venues within these event windows, but you are all still welcome to make plans with appropriate retailers or venue hosts of your choice regardless of whether or not they appear on the list.


*REMEMBER* Always follow your garrison/squad/outpost guidelines when in comes to organizing Disney/LFL promotional troops, only command staff should deal directly with LFL.

 

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INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS

For a full list of FISD awards programs head here.

 

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*Now Available in Swedish*

Want to spread the word about FISD?, you can with our FISD Tri-Fold Brochure.

Originally these were done in a limited run by the member who created them, but nowadays, we have moved this to a print your own service making them accessible to all countries around the globe.

Files are available to all full 501st members on request by contacting our DL Andrew @Sly11 , you can find more info here 

 

Currently Available languages:  English - Spanish - German - Swedish

 

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Are you new to the FISD and wondering what the heck all those abbreviations and strange sounding terms mean?  To help you @justjoseph63 has started a list of the most commonly used ones that will give you some insight.  If you have ANY questions about a particular term that is not listed or suggestions for new ones please contact Joseph. You can find the list here.

 

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Pre Approval Forum allows future Troopers the opportunity to submit photos of their completed build to be reviewed by the Staff, Imperial Attaches and others in preparation for forwarding it to their GML for approval.  Any and all advice/suggestions given will be specific, constructive, helpful and respectful. Please note that this program will NOT take the place of your local GML, as Detachments are not chartered for costume approval and can not override a GMLs decision, but is instead a peer review program designed to help you look your best and offer guidance and positive feedback.  For more information on this program, please visit the link here.

 

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Don't forget to visit our 3D section when next surfing the FISD forums, there is plenty of useful information to potentially help you on your next TK adventure. You might be feeling may generous and share with our community a new TK related 3D file and maybe win yourself a 3D contributors award DGx4MwQ.png  DjQ8bJi.png so check out the details below and be part of the in house 3D community.  Here is a link to the FISD 3D Contributor program.

 

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Don't forget to create a troop log here on FISD and get awarded for your adventures The list of accomplished troopers keeps growing, so get on board and register your troops today Simply start (or update!) your troop log, keep the running total in the title, and post (at least!) a date and name for the official 501st event where you wore your TK! Once you've hit a milestone count, go over to the "Field Exercise Awards -- Post your milestones here" thread to request your profile be updated!  Simple, right? Also if you would like your troop photos shared on our social media channels please add the following to the first post of your FISD troop log: I give permission for FISD to repost my photos on social media in an appropriate fashion.

Award Recipients February - March

 

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Are you an approved TK that spends more time on the boards than the average Trooper? Do you enjoy using your knowledge to help out future and existing Troopers? If so, we would like to invite you to join the Imperial Attaché program! Members of the I.A. team are chosen to help out not only those here on the boards, but on a local level as well. Our aim is to have at least one in each and every Garrison, Squad and Outpost in the entire legion to be the eyes and ears of the FISD on a local level.

 

If you are a 501st approved Trooper who wishes to join the ranks of the Attachés, please get in touch with me and/or visit: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/15252-fisd-attaché-program/

 

For a complete list of Imperial Attaches, go here.

 

Some of the benefits include: Access to exclusive Attaché merch, including patches. You may also be in the running for an Imperial Attaché Award. An award for those attaché's who have gone above and beyond [minimum 1 year of service]. You can find a list of prior recipients here.

 

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Imperial Attaché patch 

 

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Imperial Attaché Rocker 

 

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Imperial Attaché Outstanding Achievement Award

 

ATTACHÉ AMBASSADOR

Hello there! My first message to the masses as the new Attaché Ambassador!

To start off, I'd like to announce that we have already grown 3 new sets of eyes and ears of FISD out in the field!

Welcome @Tilheyra (Bloodfin Garrison), @Sithping (Imperial Scottish Garrison) and @R2Chris (Outer Rim Garrison) to the list of Attachés!

 

For the already existing Attachés that haven't done the Sound off for 2024, please do so!

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty 

Jonatan Östling 

TK-23592 "Nairy" 

Attaché Ambassador

 

 

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The FISD Master Armorer program is an optional, detachment only incentive award to recognize individuals who have directly helped another 501st stormtrooper to achieve Expert Infantry status. Some people spend countless hours helping others, and want to reward their results as well as incentivizing new people to help as well.

 

To register a “win” in the program, the assistance must have provided hands-on help trimming, building, and/or fitting of said armor for the person who was awarded Expert Infantry status. More information can be found here

 

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Want to setup a "Fire Team?  the Fire Team program is completely optional, and is intended to help form a common identity and spirit of camaraderie among 501st Legion Stormtroopers in the same geographic area/garrison that troop together. Fire Teams are not officially recognized by the 501st Legion nor the FISD, although they will be able to access a Fire Team sub-forum on the detachment website. You can find more information here. 

Let's all give a warm FISD welcome to our 74th Fire Team:   

Name Fire Team Tydirium

Region: Central Ohio 

Logo: To Follow

 

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Let's all give a warm FISD welcome to our 75th Fire Team:   

Name Fire Team Mantero

Region: Garrison Tyranus 

Logo: 

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For those interested here is the original discussion on the creation of Fire teams here

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Mark Ryner

TK-4584 "captsafe66"

Fire Team Relations

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These programs were designed for those who choose to take their armor above and beyond the minimum requirements for basic 501st Legion approval.  It gives you the chance to show a level of dedication and pride that takes your armor closer to being as "screen accurate" as possible, without as much extra work as you may realize! You can find more information on the programs here.

 

For those unaware it is possible to achieve extra awards at Expert Infantry for each additional version costume you have approved, additional awards are not issued with another Expert Infantry number (you are only issued 1 Expert Infantry number) but you will see a star above the award on your profile and the thread title will show [APPROVED] 2nd, [APPROVED] 3rd, [APPROVED] 4th and so on. Multiple EIB award recipients and info here

 

NOTE If you are approved with a "2nd Version" of a particular costume that you are already approved with you do not receive an additional award, there is only 1 award issued for each costume version ie: only 1 x Hero, 1 x Stunt, 1 x HWT, 1 x ESB, 1 x TFA and so on. If you have a second/additional version costume approved you will see "2nd Version" and [APPROVED] added to the thread title, no additional profile stars (more info on profile awards here)

 

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For those of you who have a particular issue (or issues) before or after submitting for Expert Infantry / Centurion level approval, in order to get you an answer faster you can now privately contact the entire Deployment Officer team at one time!  

 

Questions about fitting, repairs, CRL standards/requirements or anything pertaining to reaching Levels 2 and 3 are not only welcomed, but encouraged.  Keep in mind that no question is too small, and that your queries will only be seen by the D.O. Staff.

 

We are here to help in any way we can, so please feel free to send us a message by clicking on this link: @Deployment Officer Team and we will get back to you A.S.A.P.!

 

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The 1500 unquestioned loyalty!

 

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This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both.  FOR February - March the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following.


Expert Infantry Badge Award:

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Kevin  "KFo TK-21921 TK21921 EIB 1073

 

GREAT job on your approval, now on to Level 3!  :salute:

Request your free EIB certificate here.

You can find a list of multiple award recipients here.

Multiple EIB award info here

Expert Infantry Honor Gallery here

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Centurion Badge Award:

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I'm always on the look out for interesting stories or posts, please drop me a message if you have anything of interest.

For anyone interested in having a look through any of the older newsletters they can find be found here.

 

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Glen "Q" Rhodes

TK-85421 "gmrhodes13"

PRO, Newsletter

 

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Detachment Leader (DL): Chris Pearson (themaninthesuitcase) TK-10911 
Detachment Executive Officer (DXO):  Andrew Franke (Sly11) TK-11469
Chief Deployment Officer (DCA): Mario Reyes (TKSpartan) TK-48117
Deployment Officer (DCA): José Mª Sánchez  (Chemi) TK-30173
Junior Deployment Officer (DCA):  Gerald J Gyorffy  (Doggydoc) TK-96004

Provost Marshall (DCoG): Steven Sheades (starsaber25) TK-10466
Provost Marshall (DCoG): Caleb Mask  (MaskedVengeance) TK-73692
Provost Marshall (DCoG): Arthur Wong (giskard8) TK-39093 

FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tony Jobe (ukswrath) TK-10116

FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tim Waychoff  (Dark CMF) TK-51878

FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Christoph (Danny) Lauber (Ripper_L) TK-55550

Fire Team Relations(DCoG): Mark Ryner (captsafe66) TK-4584

Merchandise and Brand Officer (DMBO): James Silvius (jsilvius) TK-12953

Trading Card Specialist (DPRO): Eric Ho (Hoda) TK-77520
Newsletter Publisher (DPRO): Glen Rhodes (gmrhodes13) TK-85421
Content Editor Support (DPRO): Adam Wolf (Revlimiter) TK-89400
Content Editor Support (DPRO): Jeff Salt (Wingnut65) TK-50297 

Special Unit Director-Valkyries (DPRO): Vicky Mandlmaier (Vicky_Velocipanda) TK-50893
Attaché Ambassador (DPRO): Jonatan Östling (Nairy) TK-23592
Social Media Relations (DPRO): Luca Hahn (Morgi) TK-66744

Personnel Officer (DPER): AC (NoVATie) TK-5597

Systems Administrator (DWM): Mathias Rodstedt (Locitus) TK-2959

Systems Administrator (DWM): Eric Brager (Darth Aloha) TK-9674

Systems Administrator/Detachment Founder (DF): Paul Hoeffer (Daetrin) TK-8020 

 

 

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On behalf of the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment Command Staff and the Imperial Propaganda Department

 

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