Star with uniform and patches... armour later.

I already have the patches and I have the urban camo BDUs being shipped to me. I even purchased a BDU belt, so all I need left is the boots. I'm using the USCM uniform list as reference for what I need.

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."

That makes a great starter costume, just need a weapon to finish it off.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

I am building a pulse rifle from a resin cast, airsoft weapons, and electronic kit which I need to purchase.

You're all sorted then.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

OK I have a question,

I've noticed over the years that getting a pre registration at most conventions winds up taking a longer time since almost everyone does it now meaning the pre reg lineup is ridiculously long. I found that registering at the door actually cuts down on the waiting time.

Would this be a good strategy for this con?

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Cpl. M. Constantineau - Ordnance Technician "Baldwin's Badasses"

Feel free to visit my website at http://wookiemart.com/

When I did the Phoenix Cactus Comicons for 2006 and 2007, all I did was just buy the passes for the events. I don't think it would be the case for the DragonCon because of so many people that may perhaps attend.

cpl smith gets his pass at the con , and he usually gets it pretty quick although that regisrtation opens later , i always pre reg , and walk past everyone to the front of the line or the back of my line which is always short , the first year i stood in line for hours ,until i got close enough to see that there was no one in the p line , so now i always walk right up and jump to the back or front depending on how you look at it , and i havenr spent more than 20 minutes in reg since .this year we are going down on wed so we will be there early for reg

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Alpha squad. Burton's Bandits

How exactly do you pre-register for the con?

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."

I bookmarked the link for future use, Sergeant. Now I will need to see how future events go.

Just to let you know that current price ($80) won't stay at that, as the price goes up in stages the closer we get to the date of the Con.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

I understand that. I am trying to keep an eye on my funds plus my college schedule.

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."

You can also consider a theory that I've built up... You don't need a pass to stand around a hotel lobby. Unless you plan to go into a dealer room or a panel, you really don't need it.

Has this theory been attempted, Sergeant?

Yup, by a lot of people at D*Con.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Although this year it has to be noted that, at times and especially in the evenings you had to have either a room key or a Dcon pass to get into or even between the hotels!

A new policy that i can only see becoming more apparent 2011.

Just a heads up!

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im betting your room key alone will not alow you to got between , you will probably need a pass , that would at least keep the riff raff in there own hotel

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"I am the ULTIMATE BADASS , state of the badass art"
Alpha squad. Burton's Bandits

That's possible.

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."

I'm waiting to see that happen. I never wear my pass anyway... never been asked for it. Only at the dealer room. If you really need to see the dealer room, come see me, I'll lend you mine.

I'll probably keep mine in one of my utility pouches that are on my outfit.

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."

We all get passes because we need them for the parade though.

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"Screen what? I wouldn't know screen accurate if it were driving a bus and ran me over during the parade."

LCpl. Av "Spectre" Taylor
Long Range Infantry Support

That's the ribbon for the parade. I guess you don't need a show pass to be on the parade if you have a ribbon?

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

No- you need to have a valid membership pass in order to participate in the parade.

Personally I wouldn't try to pull an end-run around membership just because you want to save some money.

In the last three years or so the host hotels (Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton) have been terribly overcrowded due to college football games being played the same weekend. This leads to college students (mostly guys) who like to drink and party like they are immortal or tomorrow is doomsday.

You want to talk about riff-raff? These "people" are not even costumers/sci-fi lovers let alone having purchased Dragon Con memberships. They come in and act like drunken shitheads stirring up trouble to look as machismo as possible in front of their peers. Reminds me of the complete A-holes I used to hate with a vengence in highschool.

Rumour is it is the reason the hotels sell out so quickly. The football "fans" try to get the DCon discount code for rooms.

So this in turn has caused nothing but headaches for the host hotels' security. Bad enough dealing with generally passive costumers who are drunk let alone ramped up college jerks who have more testosterone than brains treating the place like one big frat party.

So I can see why security constantly asks for passes and room keys.

If you truly don't want to buy a pass, it's your call. But I would think your D-Con experience would suffer because of it.


Kevin

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Besides conducting a sweep of the con, does anybody know how to execute outdoor battle formations? Thought of asking because I haven't seen other Marines do any formations outdoors.

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"I kill Xenos and Preds for fun, but a job's a job. Stay professional and watch the backs of your Marine brothers and sisters."