Detroit Pistons

by: Vacuum

Shadow Squadron greeting fans!

Friday, January 4th saw the return of the Great Lakes Base along with the Great Lakes Garrison to the second annual Detroit Pistons "Star Wars Night" at the Palace of Auburn Hills. 

Along with costumers from both organizations, there was a very special guest star present for the event: Mr. Billy Dee Williams -- aka the coolest dude in GFFA, Lando Calrissian.  Mr. Williams signed autographs for the fans before the game and threw in the game ball, escorted by some of the GLG troopers along with everyone’s favorite astromech droid, R2-D2.  The GLB’s hardest working Wookiee (Lumpy) presented Mr. Williams with a gift package of various items from both the light side and the dark side groups as a “thank you” from all of us for his involvement.

To say the presence of all of the costumed characters was a huge hit would be an understatement.  Fans of all ages posed for photos with all of their favorites and we heard many compliments from attendees all evening long.  It was just a very fun crowd to interact with and they, along with and the staff of the Palace, made it a very enjoyable experience for us as well.

The teams played a close game that night, but I like to think “the Force” was responsible for that extra point needed for the Pistons to an 85-84 win over Atlanta!

This was a great way to start another year of trooping for the Great Lakes Base and hope to see plenty of you out there doing more wonderful things in 2013.