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Captain’s Log, October 17 in the 2006 year of our Lord

So this weekend was exciting yet frustrating at the same time. Exciting because I went paintballing this past weekend. $25 for about 6 rounds of paintballing isn’t bad in my estimate. So lets see, it was alot like I anticipated it to be. It didn’t hurt at all, so that misconception should be removed from the minds of every individual. I enjoyed myself because we played woodball and I went sliding around in trenches finding cover and all the sort. I was told to supress and move and I did that and executed it flawlessly. I think I got tagged every round by I did some shooting myself.

Unfortunately I have many negatives to talk about. First I’ll start with my equpiment. I was using rental equipment and for some reason some of the paintballs would curve drastically after coming out of the barrel. This agitated me tremendously because there were plenty of times I had nice shots and had it even gone straight if i was off, I’d have been able to correct it in time to still get the person. This was my only complaint with the equipment, although a big complaint, but hey its a rental.

So now onto the personnel. My team. I don’t mean to bad mouth my team but there are some things that were wrong with the way things went with my team. First they never moved. (1) The game would start and they’d move to their initial positions and just sit and take cover. Progression is the name of the game. We have to move up field. Me knowing this, I would surpress and move to a new position. My team, none of that, which lead to me being hung out to dry on plenty occasions where I’d just have to sit and wait. (2) My team did not communicate, I say this because of something AMAZING that happened. I will tell you the story. Imagine a H because this is what one of the bunkers looked like. I was on one side of the middle bar in the H for awhile and sometime along the line someone from their team moved into the same bunker just one the opposite side. A teammate of mine was what, not even 10 feet from me however he did not say anything. It would have been very simple for me to stand or reach over and just pull the trigger once. However I got out because amazingly he found me. I cussed out my team because this was the second to last game and I’d have thought that the rookies would’ve learned by now. (3) I was in a bunker that resembled a house. It had 4 walls and 2 windows on each side. I was in there by myself and had made it cleanly. It was a nice position in which I could counter from once they started moving up. They did not see me go in because I approached from the woods and entered the structure from the wooded side which gave me cover. So I was in, waiting, checking the marker to make sure all was set. What happens next. Two of my teammates come running into the house and just sit there. This brings unwanted attention and of course fire. This destroys the element of surprise that I once had. I get annoyed and bail out and set up shop in another bunker.

I need to go again with some experienced people so I can get better and I can actually have a real experience in paintballing.

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