As a side note to this report, please direct all SquadFirst+ inquiries to the Internet Office at io@emperorshammer.org. Unfortunately my OPS duties won't allow me any time to try and solve problems you may be having with the code. I assure you, though, that the product went through significant testing prior to being released, and as long as you don't do anything incredibly screwy to the code you should be fine. Most problems occur when someone tries to edit the database itself - which is a real no-no because of class dependencies in SquadFirst+. I promise that over Thanksgiving break I will be examining the code trying to duplicate and solve some of these errors, but please understand that my first duty is now medals and uniforms.

1. I don't think I denied but one or two medals this week, great job everyone! The only gripe I have this week is trying to award medals to superiors. In most cases, I'm going to see this as purely an act to get on their good side, and I won't approve it. We have a chain of command for a reason - medals should come from above, not below.
   

2. As many have noticed, I created a new Medals of Communications post on the message board in hopes that we could get some new, creative solutions as to how those MoCs should be awarded. Thankfully, one such idea came through, and I will be drawing a proposal to send to the FC and XO. I am hoping to turn the MoC into more of a merit/service medal in which squadron commanders and wing commanders will award MoCs once a month to their pilots who have kept constant communication throughout the month. Often times CMDRs aren't able to award a medal in a MSE because a pilot's activity wasn't enough to merit one, but his contact was great. The MoC will resolve this problem by rewarding those pilots for doing what they are able to do.
   

3. If this proposal goes through, I will most likely seek to completely wipe clean the current MoCs in the database. If anyone feels strongly that you should be able to hold onto those outdated medals, I'm sorry, but I have to choose to do something, and the easiest thing is to do that. I'm not up for creating a new medal just so the old ones (which 98% of the fleet doesn't even put in their ID lines because they were never entered into the TC.org database) can be kept.
   

4. No complaints about uniforms this week. Good job.
   

5. Look out next week for a small-scale OPS competition. I'm trying to make it seem like I'm not oppressing medals :)
   

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
—Leo Tolstoy

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