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Players pre-register for this game
from almost the day that the gameover fireworks are launched the previous year. It has become one of the
premiere events in the south east
and a yearly reunion for many, who
get to see their paintball family only
one time a year. This year was also a
special one for me as well as I would
get to see my daughter who is going to UNCG. She would take to the
field with her single shot bolt action
Engler K98 Sniper Rifle to see if she
could lay some first strike rounds on
the Warsaw players.
The sides are always the 2 major
powers of the cold war. The Soviet
Union and its Warsaw Pact vs the
NATO Allied Forces. I was honored
to be asked to lead the NATO forces
for the 2014 game when the listed
General had to back out for personal reasons about 45 days before
the game. I could not say no as I
have been attending this game since
2011. It was truly an honor it is to
be asked to lead one of the sides at
this premiere event.
This year the General facing me
from across the DMZ would be none
other than Chris Aguayo of Task
Force Legion. This was going to be a
battle of huge proportions and I also
knew he had prepared for this game
since the year before and I only had
a little over a month to put it all together.
Having arrived at the field on Friday
I was able to speak with my team
commanders to give them their assignments for Saturday. They were
ready, they knew their jobs, and had
gotten together with the teams they
would lead into battle. However, I
knew our biggest challenge would be
getting the many walk-on players to
the right teams before the start of
the game. But we managed to make
it happen with great leadership from
the unit commanders.
THE GAME BEGINS
Saturday morning came at the same
time it does every day. But for me
it was too soon. We had prepared.
My XO’s (who had been invaluable in
preparing for this game), Josh Justice and Cam Ferris, were ready and
the players were staged to hit the
field in numbers that I do not believe
have been seen before on the NATO
side. Across the DMZ Chris and his
XO (Were Wolf) were also rallying
their players and I knew I was going
to be in for a fight.
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