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Let me get this straight, Drake commanded flight ops (planning, missions, tech crews, fighter ordinance, etc...) and the individual 'wing' commanders commanded the actual fighter missions (kind of like Blair in WC3).

If that is the case, this is starting to make some sense. I guess I was a little confused because the Prophecy strategy guide reffered to Drake as a space force officer (which is clearly not the case, uniform, rank, etc...) of an age and rank where she should still be in the cockpit.

Thanks for the clarification
 
Dragon1 said:
Let me get this straight, Drake commanded flight ops (planning, missions, tech crews, fighter ordinance, etc...) and the individual 'wing' commanders commanded the actual fighter missions (kind of like Blair in WC3).

If that is the case, this is starting to make some sense. I guess I was a little confused because the Prophecy strategy guide reffered to Drake as a space force officer (which is clearly not the case, uniform, rank, etc...) of an age and rank where she should still be in the cockpit.

Thanks for the clarification
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Drake commanded ALL aerospace operations off the carrier, gave orders, and took orders from high command to implement. Wing Commanders run the wings, squadrons, and handle personnel issues - that's why Stiletto would be the one to chew Casey out, instead of Drake. Drake handles coordinating wing activity and the paperwork which goes to HQ, but she doesn't do the actual fighter command from what we've seen - she tells the Wing Commanders what to do, and then they do it. At least, that's how it appears in WCP.

This is more what Blair did in WC4, since in WC3 he did have day-to-day control of the wing, including all aspects of personnel management. WC4 took Blair out of that role to some extent, after Eisen left, and got him more into the management aspect of things.
 
I seem to remember in the background PA system in the Lexington recroom a request for a Colonel Matsumoto to report to the bridge. Perhaps this Colonel was the actual Wing Commander. I don't think Blair had any official capacity on the Lexington other than Tolwyn's personal agent (I have not read the WC4 novel, perhaps there is more info in that). Blair was in the unique position of taking his orders directly from the Lexington CO, but not being responsible for a 'Wing'. Also Blair's missions on the Lexington always seemed on the covert and shady side of things; extract scientists, capture recon photos, etc... Other than attacking a pirate frigate, most of his missions were not of the mundane patrol type so often encountered in WC3.

Speaking of WC4, does anyone have a backstory on Capt. Hugh Paulsen? I always liked the way John Spencer played that character, and was wondering what that character did during the war?
 
Blair was the Wing Commander for the few days he was onboard, according to the novel.
(There was a whole backstory about the woman he replaced...).

Captain Paulson was a political climber and the favorite son a family which owned a rich weapons manufacturing company. His only previous command experience was captaining a destroyer (with little distinction) during the war.
 
A Lt. Col. that was passed over for promotion a couple of times, IIRC.

Uhm, Loaf, about Maniac, I thought they mentioned that he had the Kiev decommisioned out from under him somewhere in Prophecy? I can't remember where I saw that, though.
 
Nope, the Maniac/Colonel thing never gets brought up in the Prophecy docs. Chris McCubbin offered some theories in agwc back in the day, though (I'm sure DejaGoogle can find it).

(To rectify an earlier mistake - Maniac does eventually get made Wing Commander of the Intrepid. Not sure how I mssed that in my earlier post.)
 
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