Buck + Bucky Timeline Info
For fic writers or just curious readers!
Referencing different archives and articles, I've done my best to compile John and Gale's Air Force timeline pre–England, because I feel like a lot of it gets muddied and sometimes we wanna write pre–MOTA canon events lol. Hope it comes in handy!
They meet (on or around) March 29, 1940 and become Flying Cadets at Randolph Field in Texas until August 30, 1940.
Still Flying Cadets, they move to Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas from September 9, 1940 to November 14, 1940.
Both promoted to 2nd Lieutenant Air Corp Reserve on Nov 15, 1940. A bit unsure on the events before their next promotion, because Gale seems to have gone to Barksdale Army Air Field in LA in March of 1941 for advanced flying school, but haven't found anything on whether John went too; I'm assuming he did.
Both promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Air Corp on April 25, 1942. Not clear on whether this took place in LA or back in Texas or elsewhere.
Became instructors for the 29th Bombardment Group at McDill Air Force Field in Tampa, Florida on May 25, 1942.
Promoted to Captain and transferred to Gowan Field, Boise Idaho, but possibly at different times? All I can find is that by October they were both for sure there, but Gale was promoted to Captain on July 28, 1942 and transferred then, and John was promoted to Captain in August of 1942, but it doesn't specify when he transferred.
At Gowan Field in October of 1942, Gale was promoted to Commanding Officer for the 350th Bomb Squadron/100th Bomb Group, and John was promoted to Operations Officer for the 100th Bomb Group.
Transferred to Walla Walla Army Air Field in Washington in November of 1942.
Transferred to Wendover Army Air Field in Utah in December of 1942.
Both promoted to Majors in Sioux City, Iowa in January of 1943.
Transferred to Kearny, Nebraska (assuming to Kearney Air Force Base) in February of 1943. Cue P1 of MOTA!
In May of 1943, John traveled with an advance party to Podington, England to prepare the base for the 100th Bomb Group. On May 27 1943, Gale (with the 100th) left for Bangor, Maine. From there, he flew out across the Atlantic and arrived at Thorpe Abbotts on June 9 1943. And we know what happens from then on. :-)
If any of this is incorrect or you have extra information to add to the timeline, please let me know!! I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed things, but this is how their flight school/pre–England timeline went to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully this is helpful for some other writers too!
I can throw together a timeline for their missions/events during MOTA as well if that's something anyone's interested in; it's easy enough to find mission dates in comparison to finding these pre–100th dates, but it might be nice to have them all in one place. x
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Okay just quickly, because I started rambling in tags and want to just... wrap this up:
#eoin is really good with people#we just don't really get to see him with others#never forget: eoin *chooses* paddy#of all the people he could be around and with it's paddy he picks#it's paddy who makes him happy#and no matter what else he gets up to in training or who he goes out drinking with at night in cairo#it's paddy he goes home to#i'm firmly against the 'eoin's character is loving paddy and that's all there is to him' take#but paddy is an important choice to eoin#one he makes again and again every day of his life#that doesn't change everything else that eoin is#it adds to it#it's so important to me that eoin could be doing his own thing quite happily but he chooses paddy#uaghahdfh emotionasls#look at this strong and gorgeous man and how wonderful and beautiful his choice is
and explain that when I say Eoin chooses Paddy, I don't mean that the feelings themselves are a choice, but the decision of how to act based on those feelings is a choice.
Eoin knows Paddy is a disaster. He can see that. The man is frustratingly hard work at times. He's by no means easy to learn to be with. Eoin doesn't have to put the effort in!
But he wants to.
He could, given the attitudes towards queer men at the time, distance himself from Paddy. He could keep things platonic at best, and keep himself safe. He could keep Paddy safe from that too. He could spend more time with literally anybody else.
But he chooses to spend time with Paddy.
He could tell Paddy he's on his fucking own, let him figure it out for himself, not put up with the bullshit. He could set harsher boundaries, keep himself safe from the fallout of Paddy's actions, and any threat of discrimination or punishment for homosexuality. He could decide that enough is enough when Paddy picks fights and ends up in jail, he could wave goodbye and let that be the end of expending his effort on a man who is difficult to be around.
But he doesn't let go.
Because Paddy is worth being around.
Eoin likes being around him. He wants to put the effort in.
He is aware of all Paddy's flaws. He knows the sort of man he is. Eoin is smart enough to understand what he's signing up for.
And he decides that Paddy's worth it.
Loving Paddy is rotten work sometimes. But Eoin chooses to do it. It's not blind devotion.
And I love that so much.
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I went to the jungle to see if I could find the thing to spawn the next boss and somehow didn't realize I had this in my inventory until I came back to prepare?
I still like the Queen Slime mount better but this one is really cute, and very fast! I somehow managed to run under a rainbow slime while zooming around 😂
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