Team Arcangels Airsoft, Outdoor Fitness & Training Group

The key principles and mission statement of our team is “state of mind and act of grace”.

Every day is a good day to give back to others and our community. There is no better reward than the sight of happiness of others that you are able to unconditionally touch and fortunately affect through kindness and generosity.

On December 17, 2011 Team Arcangels completed its annual food drive to assist families in need during the holiday season. This year the team elected to donate its food drive to the Vancouver Food Bank. Representatives of the team completed the final drive by purchasing over $500 in much needed items on the food bank list.

A special thanks to Brit2 and Angel’s Mom for enduring the time and patience at a busy weekend Super Store to assist and make the last leg of this food drive a mission success.

The following Monday, a team Jeep full of food was taken to the head office of the Vancouver Food Bank where we successfully filled a donation container full of non-parishable items, pasta, canned foods, juices, cereals, cookies, Christmas related foods and other much needed items. Robin Keene of The Vancouver Food Bank thanked our team during a telephone conversation for our wonderful and much needed contribution!

Happy holidays team and here’s to another successful season and wonderful act of grace!

– Loud n Proud!

Congratulations 2011 Arcangels 

Arcangels strive to continuously be the best in their class and industry. The selection process is not easy and being confirmed to participate in its infamous grind is even harder. Our 2011 selection season began in 2010 as we received several applications. At the end, after 6 months of rigorous practices, physically challenging drills with nearly 40 - 50 lbs of gear, fitness exercises and constant team scrutiny to keep up with our performance, we congratulate the following four individuals for their commitment, contributions and overall dedication in graduating into one of the world's toughest competitive airsoft teams.

For some Selection candidates they've been practicing with our team and preparing for this onetime make-it-or-break-it event since their sponsorship 6 months ago. For others, their sponsorship was approved but were unable to attend the same amount of events and practices due to work but trained for the upcoming grind on their own time. Here some of the excerpts and photos from our annual fitness and JN2011 grind event.

Angels performing pushups in timed 2 minute intervals. Qualifications are measured

against the  US APFT (Army Physical Fitness) standards.

All Arcangel members undergo this physical fitness qualification annually. This ensures that our members maintain a certain high standard of physical fitness and are capable of withstanding the rigors and endurance of long scenario games and field exercises. At times, our team attends 24 hour games, endure extreme temperature changes and continuous game play without having rest or sustenance.

Congratulations to the following individuals:

Arc Ghost:  Designation ID issued: UO2 (Unit Operator Class 2). 

Arc Riot: Designation ID issued: UO2 (Unit Operator Class 2)

Arc Hunter: Designation ID issued: UO1 (Unit Operator Class 1)

Arc Poland: Designation ID issued: O2 (Operator Class 2)

Status ID is not a rank in our team. Though we have team leaders and various individuals responsible for certain organizational roles such as media, legals, publicity, events and transportation and coordination; all of our team members are equal in fundamental skills and we do not believe in a ranking system. Designation ID's are measured by specific expertise, skills, team contributions, community contributions and attendance to events and practices. 

OPERATION IMPERIAL INTENT - AKNOWLEDGEMENTS & CITATIONS

The following acknowledgements and advancements are made to:

• LO3  - ArcWardog has been advanced to Chief Operator (CO1) and is recognized for his excellent leadership, team building spirit and mission execution of his unit during the entire event.  As CO1, Wardog continues to expand his leadership command of the entire Arcangels and its various strike and special operations teams;

• UO3 - ArcCaesar has been advanced to Special Operator 1 (SO1) and is recognized for his excellent and on-going physical conditioning efforts during the past 60 days prior to and leadup to this event. In addition, he's recognized for his outstanding DMR and operational initiatives while tasked wtih single person objectives during the battle for the refugee town where his position often involved providing sniper cover to allied forces below his position while maneuvering as a single operator without support;

• UO3 - ArcMig2 has been advanced to Special Operator 1 (SO1) and is recognized for his recon and strike capabilities under outnumbered incidents. Mig2 assisted in several road blockade support teams with other allied forces during this event as well as providing outstanding support coverage and overwatch during the battle for "Gully Hill" above the CF HQ arena;

• UO3  - ArcGucci has been advanced to Special Operator (SO1) and is recognized for his recon and special support roles during DMR and 2man recon assignments into potential hostile territories. Gucci assisted in several strike and interdiction roles during the "battle for the town" scenario.

• UO3 - ArcSpetz has been advanced to Special Operator (SO1) and is recognized for his recon, strike and leadership LO capabilties. During the "Battle for Gully Hill" Spetz under CF/LO3 command led strike initiatives to clear areas of hostile forces enabling essential support teams to advance and accomplish their objectives to retreat advancing hostile forces. During unit exercises - town clearing, ArcSptez successfully led his unit to accomplishing - (A) townclearing of all hostiles; (B) sustaining less than 10% personnel loss during outnumbered situations; and (c) secured the town and its surrounding area.

• SO3 - Arcangel25 has been advanced to Senior Operator (SO4) and is recognized for his unit support leadership role in strike, recon and communication CIC overwatch wtih CFCOM-HQ during battle for "Gully Hill" and "Refugee Town". Angel25 is also recognized for providing DMR support and extraction protection to unit members after certain assigned tasks.

LAST, the Board of Arcangel Industries and Creative Sportsaction Group wishes to thank these individuals for their time in training, logistics preparation, and the late night meetings that occured prior to this event to ensure a smooth and well executed participation by their representation of this team. We also wish to thank our sponsors Camoflauge Vancouver, and the many merchandise providers mentioned on our website for their continued support.

We look forward to Operation Mason Relic Saskatchewan. ANGELS!!!!- LOUD N PROUD!!

(attending angels from strike team (ST) Alpha (A1) and Bravo (B1) madeup the attending operations team) Photo release - Iceman Photography

Operation Imperial Intent held in Penticton, hosted by Hardcorps and sponsored by Imperial Airsoft of Calgary was a great success and by far one of the best MILSIMs we've attended. The weather was perfectly warm during the day though it was pretty cold, wet and lightly snowing at night. Strong teams from BC and Alberta attended and it was a great experience meeting these people and the sportsmanship that was strongly displayed through many of the heated battles.

The overall terrain was majestic with rolling semi desert hills and snow covered mountain sides. It 's very similar to the climates and hillsides of certain Northern Middle Eastern countries. Our gamezone had long dirt roads, large wooden towns, blockades and lots of overhanging hills and rocky cliffsides.

(LO3 - Wardog (Com-SAD) standing overtop of one of many hillsides that needed to be secured during the SIM) Wardog uses a modified PTW G&G MAX with Trijicon ACOG 44-4 and Heckler Dry Supressor system. QD 3L Hydration system by Camelback.  Photo release - Iceman Photography

The rules of engagement and storyline was very well organized, written and executed by the various commands and game master involved. Each mission and scenario event provided a strong sense of tension, awareness and at times uncertainty - all of which are very common in live deployments. Rules of Engagements were realistic to that of UN peacekeeping rules. Special protective details and reconnaissance objectives were very similar to actual forward operating security protocols and special operations tasking.

Overall, it was very well done, all the players and teams - assumed their roles very convincingly and during actual fire fights, all were very honorable with their casualties, respawns and hit counts. This made for a very enjoyable and fun filled day. We look forward to playing with the various teams from the Interior and Calgary again as we make our way through in May toward Operation Mason Relic in Saskatchewan.

The following photos are excerpts of the SIM as Angels were tasked by CF Forces Command (CFCOM) to conduct special operations, protective services and direct action interdiction roles throughout the day. More photos of this event is located in our galleries.

(Angels sent to patrol into a town to look for weapons and intelligence documents from indigenous settlements) Photo release - Iceman Photography

(UO3 - Mig2 standing cautionary guard over armed indigenous personnel in the settlement while other angels searched structure to structure.) Mig2 - brandishing his custom Classic Army G3-SAR-M41 with a real Aimpoint 30mm RD sight.  Photo release - Iceman Photography

(SO3 - Angel25, UO3 - Ceaser over looking the refugee town below where various engagements between factions and refugees were occurring) - Two other operators from Charlie Company stood as primary support.

(UO3 - Ceaser, UO3 - Gucci performing "zero hour" overwatch.) They had fun sighting in Creasers' G&G M14 EBR using a REAL - ARTII M-1200 24x50 Leatherwood Scope. Gucci using a Trijicon ACOG on his VFC Scar equipped with a King Arms Supressor. Windage and Ranging system was performed using a Steiner 10x50 LSR Ranging and binocular system. Using .40 Madbull BBs with his current spring and systema internals pushing above 490fps+ made for very effective long range shooting. Goggles by Revision and Bolle.

(UO3 - Mig2 sporting a Classic Army M249 equipped with an EOTECH 552.) - Mig2 performed cover and approach watch at the entrance of the CF roadway.

(SO3-Angel25 and UO3 - Ceaser performing 'overwatch' to allied forces advancing to the refugee town below) Angel25 - using a modified G&G M4 PTW with systema internals and QD King Arms Supressor. Optics provided by Trijicon, flashlight /IFF provided by Surefire California. QD 3L Hydration systems by Camelback. Rigs by Condor. Communication by Motorola. All team uniforms by Truspec from DS tactical BC and Fan goggles by Revision.

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