When I was 16 at Christmas, my Dad came home with a handful of Splatmasters for us, and an insanely tricked-out PMI pump with a scope and wooden stock for himself. We had many crazy weekends of Saturday night deck hockey and Sunday morning paintball. I was often yelled at for not having any tactics by my father who had SF training during Vietnam.
Not much call for a good game while I was in college in NH, until I moved to CT and had my first Medic game at StrategyPlus in East Hampton. My job was to safeguard five cigar-chomping, gravelly-voiced Cubans across a murderous bottleneck and I got them all across safely. I was exhausted, but I loved getting the role and decided to play to my strengths.
My big test came during the 2005 Normandy Invasion where several people saw I was a Medic and made sure I had a human shield wall around me as I left Sword Beach. They frog-marched me off the boat and sat on me to keep me safe. When I went to work, slithering through the grass to get to somebody, I heard the call over the radio: "Doc's on the way!", which I thought was the most reassuring thing anybody would want to hear when things go bad. I had no real command skills, my screaming voice sounded squeaky, and I suffered from a handful of annoying medical conditions, but I found that I could override all that immediately when I heard the call: "MEDIC!"
Seeing players and teams from games since that time have inspired me to sharpen my practice, particularly at West Point games. I carry extra ammo, water, and bandages...anything I can do to keep players in the game, which lets people know that they can come to me for help, which they do.
On the field, you'll be looking for a guy in black armor with a Red Cross armband on. If I'm an active Medic, I may not be carrying a weapon but if I am you'd better watch your ass... particularly if I'm trying to get to a patient. I've got a BT-4 Delta Elite named "Monica", and a Tippmann SL-68 which I had converted into a SPAS shotgun.
My home field is Paintball Charleston, in North Chuck, SC.
Awards:
Franklin Pierce University 1995-1997: Safest Date
ION 2005: Coolest Gun contest winner (M41A Pulse Rifle from "Aliens")
ION 2006: "Nice job, Medic."
ION 2007: "Nice job, Medic."
2011-Paintball Charleston- To Hell & Back Scenario: MVP- Medic
2011-Adventure Beach Paintball Bravo 1 Scenario: Sportsmanship, Meritorious Service Award
2011-Paintball Charleston Spartacus Scenario: MVP- Medic
2012-Adventure Beach Paintball Road to No Ends Scenario: MVP- Medic
2012-Paintball Charleston Objective Burma Scenario: MVP- Medic
2011-Paintball Charleston- To Hell & Back Scenario: MVP- Medic
2011-Adventure Beach Paintball Bravo 1 Scenario: Sportsmanship, Meritorious Service Award
2011-Paintball Charleston Spartacus Scenario: MVP- Medic
2012-Adventure Beach Paintball Road to No Ends Scenario: MVP- Medic
2012-Paintball Charleston Objective Burma Scenario: MVP- Medic
