Epilogue: The Final Tally
February 24, 2011- The world's still at peace, but there was one lingering detail. We have a board with everyone's kill record from the war. But in the spirit of the peace now, the board was taken down. But regardless, I went around and painstakingly recovered all the kill totals from every pilot in the wing. I guess I needed something to do. But the list was so exhaustive, I just listed the aces on my own personal list. So...here it is. All the aces from the OFS Neptune and Pisces.( An indicates those killed in action)
LTC Peter Moore "Howler"- 35
Captain John Dulles - 29(15-Belkan War)
Lt. Will Laversby "Stallion"- 23
LTC Dave Owens "Shark" - 20
LTC John Wright "X-Ray"- 18
Commander Mark Desola "Romeo"- 17
LTC Milton Cartwright "Alien"- 16
Commander Mara Kikado "Kikader" - 14
Lt. Mary Weaver "Candy" - 12
LJG Jesse Washington "Turtle" -10
Lt. Frank Martin "Comet" - 9
Lt. Noel Messerschmitt "Angel"- 8
Lt. Hartz Otigo "Chaos"- 7
LTG Andrew Cross "Cougar"- 6
LJG Jenny Glaas "Piper" - 5
LTG Charles Van Der "Axel"- 5
LTG Doug Dawson "Skip"- 5
Lt. Javier Davis "Copperhead"- 5
LTC Greg Miller "Scarab" -5
LTC Jay Ellison "Footloose"- 5
Lt. Jack Elliot "Spider" - 5
LTG Chris Christopher "Shox" - 5
Commander Art Mathews "Orca" - 5
LTC Elizabeth Morrison "Dot" - 5
LJG William Lester "Smoke" - 5
LJG Chester Zapada "Rubber" - 5
As a sort of post script, Shark and Candy got married 3 weeks ago. They kinda flattered me telling everybody they want to name their first kid, assuming it's a boy, after me. Intresting. Actually, now that I think about it, I did have the pleasure of meeting a guy who survived the Kestrel's sinking. I couldn't believe that we lost the Kestrel too. What was his name..Captain Snow. That was his name. I ran into him on the street one day. We start talking about our war stories. So he introduces me to his friends. Charles, Penny, and Donovan. Ya know, this Charles guy looked familar to me. He looked like a guy I used to dislike. The resemblance was not uncanny though. This Charles and Penny were real close. But Donovan kept asking me like 9,000 questions. Jeez, what a loon. I've been in contact with all of them since. They're really cool people. The weird thing was that even though they were civilians, they were not confused when I was talking about the specifics of my air to air exploits. They were actually quite impressed. Wait a minute...could they really be...nah. It's impossible. I must be going crazy.