First time airsofting
Had my first airsoft experience last night. I started around 1630 and ran till completion at midnight.
I was assigned to the Op4 group (Opposing Forces, the bad guys you get in training ops), so I was made a rifleman (armed with a star L85A2, which turns out to be one of the higher ended weapons fielded there) of Ost Batt 3rd SS as the scenerio was Operation overlord. Thats right, I'm an American, from Moscow, wearing Brittish (original WW2 I might add) gear, bantering like a Jock (Scot) fighting for the Germans, my roomie is sure I must have been conked on the head at the begining of the enguagement. The Delta team were attached to us as a Panzer Grenadier unit that defended Utah. The best insident was the defence of the artillery position that in reality was assaulted by Lt Winters of Easy company 501st PIR, 101 Ab. Div. The raid became a text book assault still taught at West Point.
The skirmish did not go so well for the 101 hitting us. We set up a perimitter defence. I got low in the undergrowth on our left flank with partial cover and waited forever for the miss dropped 101 to group up, locate the possition, and assault it. Final they began the assault. Initialy they tried flanking. I put an end to that with well placed semi auto shots. I could hear the enemy frustrated and warning of a sniper at my possition. They tried flanking me a couple times. The finaly over ran the possitions to my left and right but still I held and frustrated thier advance. Finaly when it quieted down I made the mistake of raising slowly and leaning around the cover, maybe 6 inches off the ground I was hit with auto fire by a soldier kneeling behind a tree waiting for me. He must have been there for a wile waiting patiently, but he was on the ball. So up, hands in the air I returned to the far rear to return as a reinforcement.
When I returned outline was forced back to a ring of trees behind the gun. We traded fire for a bit then the medic (Sani, Sanitater) from the "Panzer Grenadiers" (AKA Delta) and another german grunt and I decided to retake the gun. We did a bounding overwatch (2 guys provide security or cover wile one guy rushes). I was the last to advance. I took fire and hid the dirt and had to scramble for my weapon in the dust as the medic grabed the back of my webbing and drug me to the cover the 88mm provided.
We promtly got pinned down at the gun by heavy fire. Then it occured to us as long as we had the medic we were safe so we guarded him at all costs. I fired till out of ammo and Doc started loading mags for us. I shot my weapon till it jammed up (low bat I think as I charged it for 2 hours and it was fine) so the medic tossed me his auto and took to his pistol for self defence. The other grunt nailed them with panzerfausts till his supply was exhausted. We had a heck of a time continualy dislodging the enemy from the woods on the oposite side of the gun. They tried surrounding us a ton of times but we held for atleast 40 minutes. Finaly after unloading all of our stack of STANAG and box mags atleast twice the 101 finaly wisened up and carried out the assault correctly. Heavy support weapons took possitions on our right and pinned us down and kept us occupied wile infantry advined quickly on us from the left blind siding us. The lead man poped red smoke on the gun and the MG's lifted and shifted so he could rush us and safety killed us at point blank. They did it as they altimately would, but damned we made them pay for it. I guess all told we defened the emplacement for aproximately 2 hours of heavy, brutal fighting.
Our last battle was a night battle fighting from urbans positions divided by a wide road with a large field on the extreame left flank. Well it wsa chaotic as hell, and you couldn't tell where you taking fire from as aisoft does not have muzzle flashes. Purely by happenstance I took up a possition in a V shaped foxhole with a guy from the Delta team. We got to talking like you do in such a position. Turns out he's from Pullman, WA not to far from me. After the battle I discovered he is infact a German native. He has all the sterotypical features but speaks American English perfect as any Montanan. I would never have guessed him to be anything but born and raised down the block! Most awesome, fitting I suppose, he was in my uniform and I was in his.
I was assigned to the Op4 group (Opposing Forces, the bad guys you get in training ops), so I was made a rifleman (armed with a star L85A2, which turns out to be one of the higher ended weapons fielded there) of Ost Batt 3rd SS as the scenerio was Operation overlord. Thats right, I'm an American, from Moscow, wearing Brittish (original WW2 I might add) gear, bantering like a Jock (Scot) fighting for the Germans, my roomie is sure I must have been conked on the head at the begining of the enguagement. The Delta team were attached to us as a Panzer Grenadier unit that defended Utah. The best insident was the defence of the artillery position that in reality was assaulted by Lt Winters of Easy company 501st PIR, 101 Ab. Div. The raid became a text book assault still taught at West Point.
The skirmish did not go so well for the 101 hitting us. We set up a perimitter defence. I got low in the undergrowth on our left flank with partial cover and waited forever for the miss dropped 101 to group up, locate the possition, and assault it. Final they began the assault. Initialy they tried flanking. I put an end to that with well placed semi auto shots. I could hear the enemy frustrated and warning of a sniper at my possition. They tried flanking me a couple times. The finaly over ran the possitions to my left and right but still I held and frustrated thier advance. Finaly when it quieted down I made the mistake of raising slowly and leaning around the cover, maybe 6 inches off the ground I was hit with auto fire by a soldier kneeling behind a tree waiting for me. He must have been there for a wile waiting patiently, but he was on the ball. So up, hands in the air I returned to the far rear to return as a reinforcement.
When I returned outline was forced back to a ring of trees behind the gun. We traded fire for a bit then the medic (Sani, Sanitater) from the "Panzer Grenadiers" (AKA Delta) and another german grunt and I decided to retake the gun. We did a bounding overwatch (2 guys provide security or cover wile one guy rushes). I was the last to advance. I took fire and hid the dirt and had to scramble for my weapon in the dust as the medic grabed the back of my webbing and drug me to the cover the 88mm provided.
We promtly got pinned down at the gun by heavy fire. Then it occured to us as long as we had the medic we were safe so we guarded him at all costs. I fired till out of ammo and Doc started loading mags for us. I shot my weapon till it jammed up (low bat I think as I charged it for 2 hours and it was fine) so the medic tossed me his auto and took to his pistol for self defence. The other grunt nailed them with panzerfausts till his supply was exhausted. We had a heck of a time continualy dislodging the enemy from the woods on the oposite side of the gun. They tried surrounding us a ton of times but we held for atleast 40 minutes. Finaly after unloading all of our stack of STANAG and box mags atleast twice the 101 finaly wisened up and carried out the assault correctly. Heavy support weapons took possitions on our right and pinned us down and kept us occupied wile infantry advined quickly on us from the left blind siding us. The lead man poped red smoke on the gun and the MG's lifted and shifted so he could rush us and safety killed us at point blank. They did it as they altimately would, but damned we made them pay for it. I guess all told we defened the emplacement for aproximately 2 hours of heavy, brutal fighting.
Our last battle was a night battle fighting from urbans positions divided by a wide road with a large field on the extreame left flank. Well it wsa chaotic as hell, and you couldn't tell where you taking fire from as aisoft does not have muzzle flashes. Purely by happenstance I took up a possition in a V shaped foxhole with a guy from the Delta team. We got to talking like you do in such a position. Turns out he's from Pullman, WA not to far from me. After the battle I discovered he is infact a German native. He has all the sterotypical features but speaks American English perfect as any Montanan. I would never have guessed him to be anything but born and raised down the block! Most awesome, fitting I suppose, he was in my uniform and I was in his.