01/04/2025
The year is 2007 a couple of guys playing out of Antioch Paintball and Midway Paintball in NorCal decided to put to gather a team, one of the original names we came up with was fat kid with a Mohawk, but after much deliberation we settled on Armed Force since 90% of the team was military. We got our start in the NCPS and were terrible that first year, in year 2 we grew from a 5man squad into 2 5man squads with a youth squad Armed Force Kidz. We transitioned to playing a new series out of Elk Grove California at Capital Edge Paintball Park “The CEPL” that let teams bring their own paint and with the 15bps and semi uncapped back then we needed that discount from our main sponsor Outfit Paintball.
We got our first marker deal with Bob Long and we got 10 of the new Closers for our squad, we’re were probably one of the first D4/5 squads with team lasered Closers at that time. We played the next three years in the CEPL with a couple events at Davis Paintball playing the PFOA. One of the things we did was giving birthday kids at the fields a complete setup for free, we got backing from both Valken and Dave Bains with stuff from them to give out with the marker setups we got to give away.
In 2009 we played our 1st D4 national event in Las Vegas in the parking lot of the Riviera Hotel hosted by the NPPL finishing top 7 out of 40 teams. In 2010 one of our teams leader, Rob Lennon was transferred to South Korea (leaving the NorCal squads in Tony, and Paul’s hands) were he started another new squad Armed Force ROK that competed in South Korea as well as the PALs series in Malaysia were even PBNations own Mr. Dresser played with us.
2011 saw Rob leave Korea (leaving ROK in the hands of Dave and Eric) to get stationed in Germany and yet another new squad started…. Armed Force Panzer. Panzer played D4/3 in the DPL, BPL, XPSL, D3/2 in the Millennium Series and Semi Pro/Pro in the XSeries. Our German squad seen members from the original NorCal team (Adam, Mike B. Matty) as well as the ROK ((Eric, David) team all get stationed in Germany to play together again. The German squad seen the best years playing as a team in the 6 years active there.
In 2015 Rob was off to Lower Alabama and yup created yet another new squad. This was largest footprint as a team, at this time we had a D4/6 line in Alabama playing SPL, MiLP, MVPS and Cup, we had 3 new D4/5/6 squads in Florida (Steve who played on the Panzer squad ran these) also playing SPL, a new D4 squad in Washington State (Joseph also played on the very successful Panzer squads) playing in the Ninja Ball series, we also brought back our original D4 NorCal team to play The CEPL as well as AFPL. We also still had the Panzer squad ran by Adam (OG NorCal player) playing in the XSeries D4 & Pro Divison.
2019 the team was down to just the Panzer squad playing a full series with NorCal, Washington, Florida breaking up and the Alabama team slowly disappearing and playing 1-2 events a year. 2020 seen the last of the Panzer squad and a some what resurgence of the Alabama squad in 2021 playing D6 in and winning the MVPS Series, 2022 came and yet again the lack of dedicated players set the team back to playing 2 SPL events in 2022/23 season.
2024 was looking like a great year for the team as we had enough to play a full Xball season,, but by the seasons end it was 2 guys left to play World Cup.
With the lack of players in south Alabama to start the the 2025 season we have decided to just play 3 of the NXL 3man events and most likely call it quits for good at years end. The past 18 years as a team was both awesome and exhausting at the same time, I (Rob) got to play in 4 different countries with both of my sons, the team got to play in 6 different countries, I got to share podiums in every country I played in with great friends, share the podium with boy of my sons (not at the same time yet).
Thank you to those that supported us, Bob Long BLAST, Curtis Foster Left Coast Paintball, The Bains family Capitol Edge Paintball Park, Micah McGlocton Davis Paintball, Tyler Harmon, Bob Moon, External Sports, Valken, Empire, Israel and the Social Paintball Family, Virtue, Marcel and Massive Entertainment, Eric at Outfit Paintball, Push, Anthrax Paintball, Brothers in Arms Paintball any one who I forgot thank you, to those that couldn’t stand us I still say G*Y and EAD!
Thank you all again and peace out!
