I arrived at camp around 9:30pm Friday night and everyone seemed to have already been enjoying themselves. Skeeter and I had scheduled a meeting with the team captains for 9:30 but since only a couple of them showed up we decided to wait until the next morning for a meeting. For one reason or another that meeting did not happen, but as the event went on everything seemed well choreographed so it wasn't a big issue.

Saturday morning we got the vast majority of our side to the base 10 minutes before the game started and were able to get everyone taped and ready to roll. At game on we sent Brain and Rich to go do some forward observing and to create a little mayhem on their side of the field. It seemed to be very effective and Brain was able to relay enemy strength and positions to us.

I wasn't able to keep a close log of events, as we were very busy in the base deploying troops. The command structure was basically (Skeeter as the general, Brain as a forward deployed XO/intel/enemy stomper, DeepFreeze as the "Operations Officer" coordinating between the troops and Skeeter).

As the day went on we started learning better how to deploy our helicopters. At approximately 3:00 we were stalemated on the field and unable to make any headway so I piloted a helicopter with Brain, Rich, and a few others to roam around the field. I dropped them off at the POW camp and they were able to keep about a third of the enemy at their base trying to knock out our stick of players. When things started getting too hot I picked them all up (no losses so far) and helo'd them to a spot near the radar tower. I dropped them off their, with the exception of one person, and they played havoc with the enemy keeping them busy. This worked very well, because at this time Skeeter was able to rally the troops and start pushing the enemy back a bit to allow us to complete some missions.

About 5:00 we had a mission to hold the two LZ's behind the enemy base at 5:30. I took two helicopters to the LZ's and had a third drop a stick at the front of the enemy base. The diversion helicopter stick lasted all of 15 seconds after being dropped. It was enough to keep the enemy off our backs long enough for us to complete the mission behind enemy lines. *Big props to every player who I dropped throughout the game* After the first couple of missions some players were commenting, "If DeepFreeze asks you to go on a helicopter with him don't do it unless you are willing to be dropped in a hornet nest."

Upon return to the base I discovered we were being pushed hard. Skeeter, Brain, and I jumped out of the base with the rest of the troops to push back the assault. Skeeter was mowing grass on the left with Brain doing the same on the right. I was in the middle and at one point Brain started to challenge me to rush a guy that was holding us down from a bunker. Before he got the words out of his mouth I had dropped a nice orange goo ball in the middle of his mask....Mmmm I love chronic.

At the dinner break I headed off to Fuddrucker's with Geoff for a little cow flesh. When I got back I decided to call it an early night so I could get on the field early.

Sunday morning I was up bright and early and grabbed what troops we had to start the day. At 8:00 am we had six players at our base, so I had Bobio (Blackhearts) and one other person take the tower. Two others were sent to the area by the radar station. Lastly Brain and Rich (IIRC) were sent to do the same as before. Recon and harrassment. The troops trickled in slowly, but with Brain doing the forward recon we were able to deploy troops accurately and managed to control 2/3's of the field until 10:00 am.

Around 10:30 another big push was put on our base. I headed down the tape line to coordinate a counter offensive and ran into one guy who decided he was going to whipe the hit I hat put on his pack. I put one on the arm he was whiping with and then he decided he might as well head off the field. While this was going on Skeeter managed to coordinate the base defense.....Enemy pushed off once again.

The last mission of the day had Skeeter, Brain and others on one helicopter to occupy an LZ near the enemy base and me leading another helicopter to the POW camp. The POW camp helo dropped it's stick at 11:58 and the troops managed to hold on until 12:00 as required for the mission. Skeeter and Brain's stick was required to hold the area for 5 minutes......Lunch meat....They didn't make it, but created enough of a diversion so my guys could get their part of the mission.

We lost by points, but were outnumbered and I can't say enough about the teams on our side. They were constantly being thrown at the numbers and didn't complain once. Of note Bobio (Blackhearts) kept coming back from the tower and the only thing out of his mouth was "where do you need me now?" Mean ole me kept throwing him back at the tower. Of course he seemed to enjoy it being the sadist he is.

Even with being outnumbered our base was never once overrun. Koodos to all of the teams on the Ranger's side.