Speaking with a good friend of mine, brother Paul Forcier, I am pleased to have The Band Of Brothers Scenario Paintball team out of Western Pennsylvania stop by for a visit at the Catshack today. Heres an interesting group of people with an admirable and lengthy list of achievements and awards. Lets pull up a chair (and for those of us in Canada, grab a Tim Hortons coffee) and see what the Band of Brothers has to say..
The team was formed prior to the 2005 season. We knew that family & friends communicated better on the field than most other communicative relationships between players and we saw the potential to become a well organized and effective unit. Early on we decided our goals on and off the field were to be a team that other players could look up to. We wanted to project an aura of a successful and honorable unit. In the past few years our team has grown significantly, and has earned multiple awards of recognition, magazine coverage, and honorable mention both on and off the field. We decided when we created the team to keep our reputation clean, and to provide a unit that can be looked up to in the scenario paintball community. We don’t strive to win all the awards or recognition, instead we have created a team that compliments the paintball community and as a result we have won those awards, recognition, and honorable mentions – we will forever remain true to our goals.
The team’s overall outlook for the future will still remain the same no matter how big the team gets. We will still enter every game or tournament with positive attitudes. We will work as a unit, and supply any type of support that is needed both on and off the field. As the team grows so will our name. The Band of Brothers team name is definitely becoming a staple in the Western Pennsylvania paintball community.
We have grown to 30 members for this season and we are very proud to have each member on our roster. We are not the typical team as the age range for our team is 16 to 50+ in age. Another added feature for the team is our fully operational Tank that accompanies us to most of our paintball 
engagements, complete with our very own Tank Crew. We also do everything from playing to reffing games, we even drove out to Chicago to help ref the UWL event that was held a few months ago.
Our sponsors are:
Mission Masters – www.missionmasters.com
Zerofivedesigns.com
JDP Custom Woodworking
Mountain Valley Paintball Park
Save Phace – www.savephace.com
Dangerous Power – www.dangerouspower.com
Sunday Clothing – www.makeittosunday.com
Ultimate Woodsball League – www.playuwl.com
Team achievements and awards:
August 26, 2006 – AWARD of VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event – Halo
Player – Unknown
May 12, 2007 – AWARD of VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event – Behind Enemy Lines
Player – Unknown
September 8, 2007 – AWARDS of VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event – Black Hawk Down
Players – Jason Seng, Josh Phillips, and Jason Ballard for defending the helo
October 27, 2007 – AWARD OF VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event – Resident Evil: Reign of Terror
Player – Jason Ballard for barrel tagging Nosferatuâ
April 26, 2008 – AWARD OF VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event Eragon: Legacy of the Dragon
Player – Brian Kelley for exceptional play as special character Aryaâ
June 13th, 2008 – AWARD OF VALOR
Acknowledged by: Mission Masters and Three Rivers Paintball Freedom, PA.
- In recognition of heroic actions and exceptional performance of duty in mission paintball games.
Event – Armageddon: The Battle for Salvation
Player – John Georgic for exceptional play as special character Goliathâ
June 21st 2008 BEST TEAM
- Best team award on the ‘terrorists’ side at Mountain Valley Paintball Park as well as two individual member achievements.
Event – Operation: Jungle Terror
Players – The team as a whole with separate awards for David Forcier and Jessica Ricker
Media Coverage:
Jungle Magazine, November 2007 – Band of Brothers appeared in text and photos in the Behind Enemy Lines feature article.
Jungle Magazine, December/January 2008 – Band of Brothers appeared in text and photos in the WWII: Battles of the Pacific feature article.
Paintball 2 Xtremes, March 3008 – Band of Brothers appeared in text and photos in the Black Hawk Down feature article.
Jungle Magazine, April 2008 – Band of Brothers appeared in text and photos in the Resident Evil: Reign of Terror feature article.
Paintball 2Xtremes, August 2008 – Band of Brothers wrote and were featured in the two page article “How to not follow the standard formula for building a team” on page 28.
Jungle Magazine, Nov 2008 – Band of Brothers appeared in text and photos in the Halo’ feature article.
PaintballX3 Magazine, June 2009 – Band of Brothers appeared in photos and print in the Tropic Thunder article.
Submitted by Paul Cryptic Forcier
Like I said.an interesting team with a host of achievements and a group who in my opinion did achieve there objective of establishing themselves as a team that others can look up to. Look for these boys and girls in the staging area at UWL in August at 3 Rivers Paintball Park as well as the big game Nam: Hell’s Jungle and Castle Conquest in the Fall. If you feel like stopping by to personally have a chat with The Band of Brothers please visit http://www.abandofbrothers.com/
Tomcat Out..
