Irene! Irene!

Last month my Airsoft Team, The Order, went to Operation Irene VII.  For those that don't know what that is, it's the "Superbowl" of Airsoft events.  400-500 folks come and pay to play at the Urban training facility at Fort Knox known as Zussman.  It's a full scale city complete with sound effects and pyrotechnics that gives you the experience of being on a movie set.  It's some cool crap.  A friend of ours, Chuck Link, is the head of Securtiy/Staff at these events and works closely with the Organizer Mr. John Lu.  We get to play for free in exchange for a bit of work and being general Staff (assisting with parking, answering questions, etc).  What makes the event so cool is there are real life Heroes there.  Retired soldiers that fought in the crap and lived to tell the tale.  One notable is Col. Danny McKnight.  He lead the Hummve column through the streets of Mogadishu in October of 1993 in the battle dramatized in the movie "Black Hawk Down".  Operation Irene was the codename for that mission and this event is a reenactment of that day.  At the bottom of this blog you will see a video my Teammate Jason, aka Sureshot is making of all the footage he shot that day.  The video is just the intro, ala the beginning of the movie "Snatch", and the full thing is done and we will have copies shortly.  Check it out.

Edit: Sureshot just added all the videos in 10 minute segments on his Youtube profile.  Watch the Intro on Youtube then click on "all videos by this user" and you will see the rest.