This month the Cimmerians hosted a Saturday operation at our Alta AO. We re-enacted the 2003 Northern Iraq battle between US Special Forces with Peshmergan allies and the radical Ansar forces. The Airsoft combat was hard-fought with victories won on either side. 

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Combat Operations
- Infiltration and patrol
- Locate and secure a series of objectives
- Assault on a series of fortified positions
- Evacuation, pursuit and ambush

AO: ALTA

MISSION SCENARIO: 

- March 2003, Jalabja, Kurdish Northern Iraq...

During the opening days of the US-led Iraq War, combat operations had been launched on all fronts across Iraq. Northeast of Tikrit, on the border with Iran, over 300 US Special Forces and their 1500 allied Kurdish Peshmergan forces (the PUK) launched a 6-prong mountain offensive (codenamed: Operation Viking Hammer) to eliminate a radical faction, Ansar Al Islam. With their backs to the safety of Iranian territory, this group was in control of a mountainous sector, which provided an abundant defense. The only way the US forces could penetrate the faction's defenses was to push infantry and supporting artilley up single lane dirt roads and under a shower of enemy fire from above to engage Ansar head-on, one hardened position at a time.  

LOAD OUT :
This is a modern combat reenactment. As always we expect all operators to TRY THEIR BEST to wear a conforming uniform. 

• USFOR - Woodlands BDUs, desert BDUs or any mixture of (another example)
• ANSAR - Flecktarn or OD fatigues with a soft cap or Kefiya/Shemagh

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