Paint ball Games         by Peter Murfitt

We  arrive at Campaign Cobham with sun shining.  Six from Wiltshire Scrumpies, Steve and his boys, Bob, Ian and myself (son of Ian ). Anne and Alan turn up a bit later. Paint balls purchased, safety instructions listened to, off we go, pick up guns, test them and off to the first scenario Village, Blacks (us) against Whites and the rain starts. In the woods it’s a fight to capture the enemies flag and return it to home camp. Paint balls flying every where we charge out after 15 hectic minutes - game over, a draw neither team capturing a flag. Swap ends and off we go again. Sad to say we lost but enjoyed the fight. Back for coffee and a dry off.

Coffee over and it’s off to the jungle to fight against the Reds. The rain comes down harder but who notices when having fun crawling through the mud and bushes. Our first win of the day as I raced back to camp with the Reds flag. Sadly the Reds won the next round. The rain eased a little and it was back for lunch, warm up and purchase some more ammo as we were getting carried away in all the excitement.

Lunch over and it was off to Speed ball against the Blues. A rapid fire charge from one end of the field to the other with short stops behind the barricades. Four rounds later, one win each and two draws it’s back for coffee and tea. Refreshed and tidied up it was off for the last battle of the day once again against the Reds in the dense woodland. Two rounds - first drawn, second lost and everyone using all their ammo up blasting as many as possible (who wants to take it home anyway !). As we trekked back to the starting area to find out the final scores, the sun shone. Back in the start area it was return everything and find out our position Fourth out of four - but hey it was great fun and who worries about winning. Well maybe next time. A sincere thanks to Steve for organising it and when’s the next one ?

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   Steve's account  (as he was nursing his bruises)

We have just come back from paint balling, and wot a good laugh we had, and a big thank you to Wiltshire for joining up with us to kill all the enemy !

 Just a few things I would like to say to centre 14:

A:    You were supposed to protect your centre rep under fire from the enemy.

B:     You were not supposed to shoot your centre rep  (twice in the back!)

C:     You were supposed to listen to my every command.

D:     No first aid was administered to your centre rep, even though I soldiered on.

E:     Bad language directed at your centre rep like, pussy, tart, big girl, Mr Mainwaring etc etc        

There were eight teams fighting it out all day and , well we would have come first but looking at the score board we had points deducted for USB (unelectable social behavior). Now you know and I know that we are South London & Surrey, so it must have been that aggressive Wiltshire lot that let us down.