364th Fighting C-Hawks
"Once a <C-HAWK> always a <C-HAWK>!"
Introduction to the 364th
History of the C-Hawks
The 364th C-HAWKS Fighter Group
The Early Days
Between 1991-92 two online gamers, jhffo and erik^ talked in a chat room in the game Air Warrior about creating a squad. The lack of an organized group was noted when players were not communicating or working together to have fun in AW. The squad they planned to create would incorporate the concepts of teamwork, camaraderie, and fun. It was not long before players from the many different arenas in AW were looking to join the <C-HAWKS>. It was almost a decade that the <C- HAWKS> set the standards for the bombing and capturing airfields. The <C-HAWKS> were always ranked in the top 5 for squads in bombing, which was feat in and of itself.
As Air Warrior was purchased by Electronic Arts and then shortly shut down the members went through a hard time with no gaming community to identify with. This was a hard time for the <C-HAWKS> and many wondered if they would be saying goodbye for good, but that never happened. The old adage held true that "Once a <C-HAWK> always a <C-HAWK>!" Squad members, or by this time friends, still talked online, on the phone or through the e-mails. It wasn't long until the <C-HAWKS> branched out into different online games, but kept their philosophical roots that the <C-HAWKS> were based upon.
Return of the C-Hawks
The two prominent online games that the old members went to were the Aces High and World War II Online. Goose created the <C HAWKS> squad in Aces High for many old Aw players that joined and continues to carry on the concepts of a good air squadron that was once a dominating force in Air Warrior. Sortie, also known as 6kill from his AW days, joined World War II Online and started to carry on the <C HAWKS> tradition there. It wasn't long before jhffo, putty and the many old timers from the AW days joined. Sortie, on the day he joined WWIIOL, went from being laughed at as a one man squad to leading one of the most organized groups in the game. Many players in WWIIOL rallied around the old concepts of teamwork, camaraderie and fun in order to have a good time in the game.
Today the <C-HAWKS> have been established as a respected member of the Aces High community. The old <C-HAWKS> ideology of good teamwork, camaraderie and fun had spread! People knew they could join up with any <C-HAWKS> operation and have a good time online.
Over the years, many have rallied around the <C-HAWKS> name. In the past it was just a name for a group of players to identify themselves with, but over the many years the name changed to define the things its members believed in. Consequently, the name <C-HAWKS> is defined by the concepts of teamwork, camaraderie and fun. To call oneself a <C-HAWK> is embody and believe in those three principle concepts.
The REAL 364th Fighter Group
Organization
Squads
364th FG C-Hawks
CO: RedBrd
Red Beard is the latest CO in a long line of CO's with history going back to Air Warrior days.
364th CH/RTC BW
XO: N/AFXO: N/AFlightLead: N/A
The bomber wing has been folded back into the 364th Fighter Group at this time. It will be reinstated as needed to cover squadron membership.
364th Motleys Aces/CH
XO: LoedeCH FXO: GrimCH
Although newcomers to the C-Hawks, these pilots are anything but newbies. Another squadron that has its roots in AirWarrior, Motleys Aces are under the lead of LoedeCH.
The Motley Aces were formed in November 1997 by GR!M and LE@D(now known as Syrax). The Motley Aces Started out on AOL Air Warrior Classic, Then over the course of a few months were playing AWII on Gamestorm and the AWIII Beta on Bigweek.com. We had over 70 members within our first 6 months, 3 Wings, Fighter, Bomber and Attack.
Over the next few years until Air Warrior's demise, we went through a few changes in Command and one or two look-a-like Squadrons claiming the Motley Aces name as their own. The name was kept going by GR!M and a few others in other games from time to time.
GR!M joined Aces High in May 2005, and proudly accepted and invite from the C-Hawks a few week's later.
We started the old squad back up in December, 2007 as the 385th FS Motley Aces (now known as the 364th Motley Aces/CH ), an Escort Wing for our Bomber Mission's on Squad Nights.
Squad Activities
Squad Night
Squad nights for the C-Hawks are Wednesdays and Sundays at 20:00 EST/17:00 PST...that's 8PM/5PM for you non-military folks.
FSO
The C-Hawks also fly FSO in AcesHigh Events every Friday at 11:00PM EST. We have approximately 20-25 members show up for this Registered Only Squad Event. Usually there are a total of 300 participants that recreate Famous Air Battles from WWII.
Joining the C-Hawks
- We fly for the Knights, in one of the Late War Arena's.
- We ask for all people requesting to join us, to fly with us for a day or two. It's not about your skills, just looking for people that are well mannered, who like to have fun and fly as a team.
We don't expect you to fly any specific airplane. But if you specialize in certain types of airplanes we can invite you to the Wing of your choice.
- Look us up in the arena's and Tune Your Radio to Channel 164..and check out our Forums for more information.
