Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

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Comm. ID: Commander James (Jimbo) Barnes

Reports to date: 12
Total Flying hours: 142

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Good Morning Sir!

Here is my mission report for 19 December 820 A.S.



First off may I say how disheartened I am to hear that Commander Goodman, Commander Arland and the men under their commands have deserted.

There are times when an officer may disagree with their superiors, but you do not voice it in the mission debrief and you certainly do not tell Her Majesty that she can “screw it!”

You can be assured that the men and women of the Derwent understand our oath and duty to the Crown; these deserters have brought dishonour on the Service, they should have resigned their commissions!

Anyway my report, sir. The Derwent was still undergoing a shake down in Salisbury when we received an all stations call for assistance in the Leeds system, a GRN Fleet had been spotted coming from under the sun, (so much for Commander Goodmans Black Op’ tactics!).

Strangely, very few ships responded to the call for assistance, this misconduct of the deserters has damaged moral, nobody from the 5th Fleet acknowledge the transmission.

We immediately departed for Leeds and rendezvoused with the Pestilence and the Lolax from the 242nd Group.

BPA Inspectors Hone and Page assisted with spotting for us and we engaged the Fleet in the Trade Lanes near Durham Border station; Communications were being jammed by the GRN so we could not contact the York to call for fighter backup.

Sadly the crew of the Derwent are very young and inexperienced, they fought valiantly, but were outnumbered 3 to 1 and the gunners could not shoot down all the torpedoes, the Derwent engines took a direct hit, we lost power and life support was failing; I had to order all hands to abandon ship.

The last I saw of the Derwent , she was drifting near Durham station, hopefully she can be recovered and towed to Southampton for repairs.

We lost 3 hands in the Engine room and 42 are seriously injured with radiation burns; the command crew only suffered some cuts and bruises, our pride has been hurt more.

This concludes my report.

Good day to you Sir!

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