I think Rich and pbjunkie were responsible for putting the small team together - around 15 in total - keith & rich get their jerseys. (b/y respectively)

Friday night we went over to the bar Keith, his wife & Patric? own - Grendel, Thumper, Rich, Keith and Patric in attendence. In discussion was the following:

Rich would like to grow the team in a controlled manner to support 8 events a year. The drunken consensus was this would take around 20 solid players to field 12 at any given event. Also in discussion is "where is the calendar of events" and "who organizes this stuff". These items were left a bit open ended. Rich may be buttering himself into a job.

(by thumper) The bad news was our team was split with a RK vs RK -- Rex, Bob, Keith, Pat, Tom Madden (allies) VS Thumper, Grendel, Shiheed, Rich, Ralph, Tom (axis), and our ally friends had the home field advantage and a distinct lack of boundary restrictions. Our mission (RK axis) was to hold Ste. Mere Egise from 11-2. Rich and I deployed as photographers for the omaha beach landing. (see pics) Grendel and Shiheed deployed at St. Mere Eglise.

TRUE STORY: An early air drop of the US airborne into the cathdral drew Grendel into the sneek and peek to shadow the plane, but little did he know he was trailing the second plane with the first load of lying in wait - and true to history, Jonathon Flint of the 716 Coastal Defense Group of the 91 Airborne (axis) fell victim as the first casualty of the Normandy Invasion, ala Bob. 11:20am

As Rich and I dropped our cameras and St. Mere Eglise fell, we regrouped and sought to retake the village. We inserted and swept the tape - and again trouble found us. Keith, Patric, Rex hunted our tag tag team. Our asses hang on their wall to be sure. Keith is said to have tagged Grendel twice, and I know Rex snuck around on me. Not bad Rex - you have some skills. The little culvery by the insertion road is a grand little ambush spot, but even a better counter ambush spot if you know the ground. After 3pm we were fortunate to have keith, patric and tom madden shift to our side and then be best drive of the game began.

3:00pm Sat Nov 14th, 2004 - In full force we inserted (at the base on the hill) and swept the tape bound for omaha beach, the long way. Teamed with MSWAT (a 10 man mexican team), we sewpt the tape line like a very well oiled machine (abit loud and oily). Grendel got picked at the car door in the swamp, and tom madden got picked off in an early fight, but both were able to reinsert and catch up. Rish and I ran the guy off that picked grendel and cleared the bunker building that covered the bridges anchoring the pivot for the radial two sided sweep of the swamp backside, We cleared the swamp with MSWAT running the drive. We then turned and skirmished lined the forest to ohama, RK on right tape 7 into power lines. We easliy cleared out the beach head at omaha around 3:30pm and split with MSWAT + 15 stragglers headed towards the castle and RK (6) swept into the cathedral headed around. Here we ran into around 4 separate small groups of 4 to 5 all doing pretty much the same thing we were doing. Each group we met, and each group fell with easy pincer movement and accurate shooting. The teams we encounted did not seem to even consider end-around or flanking as an option.

The sweep ended with our squad down to 5 and eliminated within a few minutes of coming out of the woods with a push on the village. Pat, Grendel, Rich and Shiheed. Keith wass there, but wandred around towards the storm pipes.

Lesson Learned : Stay in the Woods