Our airsoft community's favourite grunt, Darkhorse of One Grunt's Opinion, wants to form an Iraqi Special Operations Milsim Club. By the name itself, the group will in decked in Iraqi Special Forces loadout known for their black uniforms. They will be traveling around the U.S. to participate in various milsim events put together by some of best in the milsim events business.

Whilst many airsoft teams get inspiration from units in their countries, many also take inspiration from units mainly from Western Countries (Navy SEALS, GSG9, SAS, GROM, etc.), and Russian ones, mainly Spetsnaz, this is the first time for one to take an interest in a Middle East special operations unit. The Iraqi Special Forces was created in December 2003 by the Coalition Forces after the Invasion of Iraq as a counter-terrorist unit of the Iraqi Army. There were special forces units under Saddam's Iraqi Army, but were disbanded by the Coalition Forces after the invasion.

The Iraqi Special Forces were initially trained by U.S. and Jordanian Special Forces in Jordan and at present are heavily involved in fighting against ISIS. Given the influence of U.S. Special Forces, they are mainly seen with using U.S. Military weaponry, equipment, and vehicles though sometimes they are also seen using Kalashnikovs which they need to given the abundance of such weapons in their areas of operations.

It will be interesting to have the Iraqi Special Operations Milsim Club seen in action at milsim events, like the Rushing Russians Airsoft Team helping milsim event organisers have an OPFOR that airsoft teams that use NATO/U.S. loadout can play against.

You may wonder why Darkhorse called for the formation of such a club? Here is his post on the OGO Facebook page that he wanted us to shared and spread the word around:

True inspiration guys has hit me. It hurt too. I am officially starting the Iraqi Special Operation Milsim Club. I'm dead serious and the requirement for this team is to put together an Iraqi Army Special Forces impression. Yep, it's an impressionist team and it's foreign Special ops too.

The great thing is this team is easy to get kit for. Any solid colored gear works whether green or tan and weapons systems can be US or Russian based. Multiple kinds of footwear from tennis shoes to combat boots will work. You have to get a black uniform and the appropriate patches though. No Multicam, no Crye, no AOR, Kryptek. Solid colored gear, black uniform, the correct patches and we meet at ops.

I'm even creating a group for it so guys can sign up and we can get organized. So much wonderful flexibility in this and easy to join options.

Here are some reference pics to get you excited and PM me if you're serious about joining in on the fun.

Like the idea and want to join this group? There is now the Iraqi Special Operations Forces Milsim Club Facebook group created with already 71 members as of this writing. Looks like Darkhorse is on a good start and we'll start hearing more from this group in the following months.

For more information about the real Iraqi Special Forces, you can follow them at their own Facebook Page.

Photo Credits: العمليات الخاصة Iraqi Special Operations Forces Facebook Page.