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In Memoriam

Detachment Leader

Executive Officer

Merchandise Officer

Hall of Fame

FISD Meme's

Around the Detachment

 

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 2024

Follow FISD

 

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RIP M'Lord, Buckets Off

 

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Although not officially post by the legion, many of you no doubt would be aware of the recent passing of Vincent Vigil "22Vince23" TK-23000 of the Golden Gate Garrison, North Bay Squad, also a member of the Legion Charity Team. 
Dee, Asia, and Ayden ( Vince’s wife and children) have shared the following message on Vince’s Facebook page:
“Our family is at a complete loss for words. Vince’s sudden passing has deeply affected us all. We know that many of you are also feeling this heartache and disbelief. Please know that you are in our thoughts as well. We encourage you to lean on one another during this time. 
For now, we kindly ask for time and space to process and grieve privately, and request that there be no social media posts for the time being.
Thank you to everyone who loved, knew, and supported Vince.
Dee, Asia, and Ayden"
We ask that you respect their need for privacy during this incredibly difficult time. As requested, please refrain from posting anything on social media.

 

Condolences to his family, friends, garrison and squad

"Buckets Off"

 

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Greetings troopers,

 

We are now past the half way mark in this term and we've managed to do quite a bit, despite the unusual start.

 

Just making the last newsletter @Sly11 was able to announce the first ever Imperial Armored Commando, @Sithtrooper02. This month they have taken it further by passing Level 2 clearance: Expert Infantry! The fact they passed with no comments is a huge testament to the amount of work they put in building an excellent suit that does us all proud.

 

If you would like to join the ranks of the Imperial Commandos you wouldn't go wrong by checking out their build here:

 

Hopefully most of you should have received you racing shirts and are wearing them with pride. If you have not had yours or have yet to pay your shipping costs, please make sure you check in on the sales thread as there have been updates for those affected.

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Chris Pearson 

TK-10991  "themaninthesuitcase"

Detachment Leader

 

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Greetings fellow members,

 

I'd like to thank our Detachment merch officer Jame Silvius (jsilvius) TK-12953, for the huge amount of effort he has put in so far this term.

For those who have helmed or assisted in a merch run, you will know just how much work that involves. It's crazy really as you need to keep full records of all transactions, tracking of shipments, packing and sending, fixing discrepancies, sort issues, this list seems endless.

That's just helming the run. It doesn't take into account the other duties of the DMBO.

James drives discussions in staff on merch ideas, comes up with ideas for designs, juggles our slots and when to use them, plus schedule the full term for timing of release, closures, special events, not to forget the back and forth between multiple vendors trying to get us the best pricing etc., etc., etc.

 

Next time you jump in on one of our awesome merch runs, please take a second to thank James for all his efforts, it's a big job with a Det of our size, and he does it all for the love and our motto Troopers helping troopers.

 

Thank you James for all you do, brining the membership extremely trade worthy and exciting merch.

Big job brother and you do it so well.

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

Andrew Franke

TK-11469 "Sly11"

Executive Officer

 

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:smiley-sw013:Merch Update Time:smiley-sw013:

 

Old Business

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I still have a coins available. To be eligible, you have to have an approved EI costume and you can not have ever bought an EIB coin. EIB coins are a once and done coin. If you have this one and would prefer one of the older versions, I may have an option for you so please dm me.

EIB v11 coin run is open

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FOTK patch run is closed. I approved the sample and manufacturing started Aug 20th, so I am expecting patches to arrive to me between 17 Sept and 1 Oct (4-6 weeks). I'll update the thread with more information as I get it.

 2024 FOTK Patch Run

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We are now offering Armorer rockers to those that meet the level 2 armorer. More info can be found here

Armorer thread.

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Racing Shirts are all accounted for. I still have 11 in my possession awaiting for shipping payments. If you ordered a shirt and haven't received it yet, check the thread to see if you are on my list of members that still owe shipping.

Racing Shirts

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"Official FISD Standard Logo Coin"

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The coin run is closed. The order has been placed. I'm hoping to have these in hand by mid-October.

There are 6 distributors for this run EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, part of Canada, and Everything else comes to me.

You will receive shipping instructions from the member that is responsible for your region, once the coins are in their possession.

More information can be found on the thread.

Standard Logo Coin

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New Business

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With the Racing shirts, patches and coins completed, we turn our attention to the next Standard Logo Item,

The basic T-shirt/hoodie. 

This item will be available to order in late to September, early October. Keep an eye out for more information on the Forum.

 

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty

James Silvius

TK-12953 "jsilvius"

Merchandise & Branding Officer

 

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:R2D2: I'm pleased to see that our detachment is leading the way in droid hunting! :R2D2:

Please welcome TK-11198 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, August 2024!

@camroc13 Troop log can be found here.

 

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Congrats Cormac!!  :peace: Give our regards to those pesky Sandtroopers will you?

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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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 Chris @themaninthesuitcase

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 August - September

 

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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

 

 

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With Unquestioned Loyalty 

Jonatan Östling 

TK-23592 "Nairy" 

Attaché Ambassador

 

 

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Master Armorer Program - 2024 Relaunch 

 

FISD has many wonderful programs to help members build and submit costumes for our detachment, whether it be a classic Stormtrooper, a First Order Stormtrooper, or even one of the new Imperial Armored Commandos. While our Expect Infantry and Centurion programs get most of the attention, FISD staff wants to relaunch the Armorer Program (Currently called the Master Armorer Program).

 

What is the Armorer Program you ask?

 

Well, it is a program designed to recognize those troopers that go above and beyond to assist themselves and others in getting costumes built, submitted, and approved. One of the goals of all the detachments in the 501st Legion is to help members build and submit costumes that meet and hopefully exceed the minimum requirements of the Legion’s CRLs.

 

Currently the Master Armorer program has the requirement of helping a minimum of 5 members achieve Expert Infantry status. The member must have spent at least 30min physically helping another member with cutting, gluing, sizing, etc, just because they want to help (no money exchanged).

 

The definition of an armorer is “a maker, supplier, or repairer of weapons or armor”. So while we certainly love the feedback that members provide to others on the forums, and the extra steps some do by having video calls to help walk people through issues with their builds, this program requires hands on work.

 

The new program will have the same physical help requirement, but we are going to move from a “wins” system, (where a win was help an individual for 30 min or more) to a points system, and we aren’t limiting it to only Expert Infantry builds. While we are pushing the Advance to 1500 to try and achieve 1500 Expert Infantry members, we recognize that the goal of the detachment is to get FISD members build, submitted, and approved. So we will be awarding points for Basic builds as well.

 

Currently there are 3 levels of the award, FISD Armorer, FISD Senior Armorer and FISD Master Armorer. The new program will add a 4th level at the beginning called the Apprentice Armorer.

 

The point scale will be as follows.

  • 5 points - Apprentice Armorer
  • 10 points - Armorer
  • 20 points  - Senior Armorer
  • 30 points - Master Armorer

 

The Armorer candidate would earn points based on what level the member costume they assisted with achieved.

 

If you help with a basic build, you get 1 point, if you help with a EIB build you get 2 points. So a person to basic you get a point, help them again to get their EIB earning another 2 to a total of 3.

 

The thought again here is that we want to help build as many stormtroopers as possible.

 

If you love building armorer and love helping fellow members get their costumes built, then this is the program you’ve been searching for. We look forward to awarding more members with this award as we know how much we all love Troopers helping Troopers. More information can be found here

Armorer Rocker Patches

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Rocker patches are now available for the Armorer Program, there is currently just the one patch, and members are eligible to receive two of them once they reach Level 2, "Armorer". 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. 

 

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 Augst - September the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following.


Expert Infantry Badge Award:

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Angie  "Stardust665"  TK87665 EIB 1079

Lucas  "lugalleg"  TK21476 EIB 1080

Francois  "Sithtrooper02"  TK20236 EIB 1081

 

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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No recipients this month

 

You can find a list of multiple award recipients here.

 

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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 PMF) 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 

Imperial Propaganda Machine (IPM): Brian Long (Tilheyra) TK-47933 

 

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

 

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Thank you for the kind words @Sly11. I do my best for the best detachment in the Legion.
As always, if you have ideas for Merch or ways to improve the process, my "door" is always open. Feel free to drop me a dm, an email, even in person if you happen to have the chance to troop with me. I do read all the notes everyone makes and I'm always humbled by the kind words everyone offers. I also try to answer any questions or provide input on any suggestions.

With Unquestioned Loyalty,
TK-12953
aka James


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Cool! Didn’t know about the stormtrooper hall of fame but glad to be a part of it! Honored to have my picture chosen definitely a cool shot with R2 in the background. Thanks for sharing guys!


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Thanks Chris for the kind words on my Armored imperial commando build. I will gladly help troopers who would like to start this build. I will also add content to my build thread you mentioned,  in the upcoming months, to make it as complete as possible.

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Very sad news regarding James Earl Jones' passing, our boss! :vader2: And Vince! :( They are one with the force now. :(

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