Ranger Troop 4: The Milsim Team

Ranger Troop 4 is a key component of the NCR response to the raider surge in the Mojave. Ranger Company A is developing 1 Ranger Troop at Ft. Edwards as a response force. Ranger Troop 4 is ½ of the Ranger School Instructor Team at Ft. Edwards, with OpFor being the other half.

The milism game at Ft. Edwards is based around 2 groups of paid instructors who battle each other in an ongoing, persistent, immersive campaign for control of the Mojave. The Ranger training operations supports the Ranger Troop 4 operations.

Troop 4 and OpFor also serve as sponsored Milsim teams at airsoft events around southern CA. In addition to recruiting and PR, the Milsim teams give our instructors real-world airsoft battles with other players from around the world. Troop 4 and OpFor are the ‘Tier 1 Operators’ and the commercial Milsim events are ‘combat deployments’ for the teams.

Recently, the NCR 1st Recon has encountered raider packs being led by Brotherhood of Steel and Legion ‘advisors’, who offer a limited amount of training and equipment in order to entice raider packs to attack NCR facilities. These raider packs are significantly more well-trained and equipped and pose a major threat to NCR Mojave operations.

While both the Legion and BoS stand to gain from disrupting NCR supply lines and operations, the NCR Intelligence Section believes that the Enclave is actually at the root of the raider surge and that the BoS and Legion ‘advisors’ are actually Enclave Special Forces using local factions as cover.

Trained raider packs are a new complication in the Mojave and require a new response.

Currently: Mojave Ranger School is developing an instructor squad (OpFor Squad 1) in the Ft. Fresno area. OpFor 1 team members are the initial Mojave Ranger School Instructors. Mojave Ranger School uses airsoft guns and military simulation as part of the post-apocalyptic immersion.

For safety reasons, and because we’re not a ‘normal’ Milsim operation, students don’t shoot at students during exercises at Mojave Ranger School. OpFor stands for Opposing Forces, and your instructor’s goal is to train you to be a worthy opponent, which makes it more fun for your instructors to hunt you.

OpFor 1 team members serve as the raiders, brigands, Brotherhood of Steel and Enclave bad guys that Ranger Basic students defend against.

The goal for OpFor 1 cadre is to train troopers and settlers in the skills needed to defend themselves and their settlements in the Mojave.

Opfor Platoon

Opfor (Opposing Forces) are trained Mojave Ranger Instructors who function as the leaders of the Raiders, not everyone wants to be the good guys.

Ft. Edwards has 1 Opfor Platoon which manages Raider/Legionnaire operations on an ongoing basis. The Opfor Team is not open to casual players since they operate independently and routinely camp away from the fort.

Camping with Opfor is the easiest way to meet the Bivouac and Wilderness Survival requirements for the Ranger Basic Course.

The Opfor Team consists of Legionnaire and BoS Officers and noncoms (Ranger School graduates) leading militia and Raiders (Ranger School students) on raids, ambushes and smuggling missions.

We can’t pay you play Fallout, but if you help market the system then we can sponsor you to perform it at events (if you can shoot).

Force-On-Force Training with Plastic BB’s
Mojave Ranger School uses airsoft guns and military simulation to create a fully-immersive weekend-long Live-Action Role Play adventure for players. Airsoft guns shoot a 6mm plastic BB at about 400 feet per second, half the speed of a .45 caliber bullet, and it hurts when you get hit.

Players are required to wear proper safety equipment during trainings, drills and live operations and can get seriously injured if they play in an unsafe manner. Using the Crawl-Walk-Run training methodology, trainees learn to slowly and efficiently operate their equipment and work together as a team during progressively harder and faster exercises.

The December Winter Games and YOUHAD (Yearly Operational Unit Holiday Avoidance Drill) are played at full-speed between fully-trained Mojave Rangers with full Force-On-Force operations. YOUHAD a year to get ready for it.

The playing field (the Mojave Desert) is inherently dangerous and your instructors will be hunting you, with BB guns, for bounties, so take the training seriously. Or don’t, you’re the one getting shot at.

Free Monthly Training
Each month Troop 4 hosts a 4-hour training on the 1st Saturday and a 4-hour drill on the 4th Saturday. The Training Day teaches the classroom skills and demonstrations and the Drill Day gives trainees an opportunity to check off the skills in their Task Books. The Ranger Basic Course has 10 monthly lessons and trainees can do the course at their own pace.

Mojave Ranger School is developing a weekly ham radio net and live-stream training to help distant trainees train remotely.

Our goal at Mojave Ranger School is to develop the professional cadre to support safe, immersive, Live Action Role Play milsim events at an NCR fort in the Mojave Desert while families and guests enjoy our post-apocalyptic market village.

There’s 30 million people within 4 hours of Fort Edwards and Mojave Ranger School needs about 30 to get started. Mojave Ranger School is not mass marketing yet because right now we only want the 1 in a million.

Mojave Ranger School goes live in Summer 2026.

The Mojave Ranger School forums are at www.MojaveRangerSchool.com/forums Be sure to log in to the forums and introduce yourself.

The Mojave Ranger School Ranger Basic Course is at www.MojaveRangerSchool.com/BasicCourse