Awesome logo.
You got me thinking about organizing this up a bit more.
I know the 405th isn't "official" since everyone, especially the admins, are busy making costumes. I know I'm too busy to work on anything super organized! Still, some brainstorming ideas. Sorry if it's kind of rambling. Just thinking out loud.
7th Charlie Alpha Co, while clever in its use of 7 and CA, isn't a good military name. =P A company will typically just have a letter designation.
The normal organization for Marines goes:
Division
Regiment (for infantry/artillery)
Battalion
Company
Platoon
So something like...1/77 = 1st Battalion 77th Marines (Regiment).
77th Marines being the regiment portrayed in the "Believe" ad campaign if I'm not mistaken.
Something without a regiment usually refers to a special purpose unit. In the US marines, an example would be a tank, recon, or amphib assault battalion. In Halo, this would be like an ODST battalion. Due to the scarcity of completed costumes, it's probably best not to segregate based on costume type at this stage.
Then you have two companies, based off geographics. ex: C Co. for Bay area/norcal, A Co. for So cal. Or something like that.
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Now what would be some of the purposes of designating a california or a norcal/socal "unit"? What would the purposes be?
One obvious idea is to have gatherings similar to what Dave has at his place in Texas. This would be a great opportunity to get together, show off creations, swap tips, share molds, and even have simple fun such as LAN or BBQ.
A second idea is convention organization. By having a known list of people in an area, it can be easier to organize carpools, hotel room sharing, and at-con events such as masquerade entries, panels, etc. Some notable conventions that come to mind are Comiccon in SD, Wondercon (Comiccon's offshoot) in SF, and heck, even PAX (the Amtrack ride up sounds awesome, and carpools are feasable. PAX isn't big on costuming, but it's a video game expo and Bungie's right next door)
As far as charity events go, once things are more organized and there's more costumers available, we can look into it. Some obvious ideas would be things such as hosting Halo tournaments to raise money to donate to an established charity (such as Child's Play).
Allow for easier trades/swaps of props. Because shipping is expensive so being able to offload some spare parts to someone local is far more appealing, especially for things such as completed pepakura pieces which are difficult to ship.
Any other ideas?
here's a quick easily accessible list for people to reference. I'll it update as I can unless Misterchief sticks it in the origianl post.
Norcal
Humboldt_spartan - Eureka
Rougewarrior - Sunnyvale
Socal
Misterchief - LA
Drgnfyre4 - Socal
Bigolaf - Anaheim
Enrisan - Socal
Roodkill's group - Socal
And of course, I'm the odd man out since I'll need to travel between the bay area and SD on a pretty frequent basis. At least far more frequent than my wallet would like.
