User talk:Michael Boyd

Welcome!

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Welcome!

You give me some painful memories...among other things, I am a Military Workgroup Editor, so paintball (and the more serious military equivalents such as MILES at the National Training Center and Joint Readiness Training Center) is something of an interest. I can testify to the value of always being sure you clear urban targets, having missed a paintball observer, and while sniping at distant targets, had a paintball to the posterior delivered from under a meter away. I'm told that between the bruising and dye, I was very colorful, although it was hard to sit down.

With your instructor's approval, you might see me helping out in your course. You've already reminded me I need to write about MILES (think super laser tag) and other virtual battlefields; we wouldn't at all mind a paintball article in both Sports and Military. Howard C. Berkowitz 16:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)