Checking the Popular Airsoft Facebook Page, somebody left a message about an airsoft player who'll be dressing up for the Warminster Christmas Airsoft game to suppor the Help for Heroes Charity. We decided to check the person out and she's someone we've met at Ground Zero Weekender. Tasha Vaughan, formerly known as "Biscuit," and now with "Piglet" will be donning something that might be inappropriate in cold weather. But that's what she's going to do to raise something for the veterans during the event.

But we'll Tasha tell you who she is and why she's doing this:

I have been playing airsoft for nearly 4 years now; I decided I wanted to tag along to this thing that I always lost my partner Alex Kennedy to an airsoft weekend. I didn’t think I would enjoy it, I mean what is there to like about getting up early on a Sunday to travel to some forest in the cold and wet to get covered in mud and hide in bushes? Apart from maybe EVERYTHING! I loved it and that is where I got hooked. I started off at Ground Zero Woodland back in 2008/2009 on a cold muddy day, and it was a Plan B game (the very hilly side). We had our briefing and went on to the game; I lost Alex and his team very quickly and had an asthma attack at the top of one of the hills. Did that stop me? NO! I managed to bimble around not knowing what I was doing until I managed to realise I had gotten into the opponents' base and cleared it out with the G36C I had borrowed from Alex. ON MY OWN! On my first game! Then I got shot by Alex’s team mate who thought I was the enemy. We laugh about it now, but I knew I was hooked then.

I have played at various sites, whichever I have been dragged to, with various people. I played alongside DCLU (my partner's old team) until they disbanded and went separate ways. We used to play at Ground Zero Woodland and occasionally at Ground Zero Urban and I helped command the Others Team at the NAE back in 2009 I think. Back then I was known as “Biscuit” when Popular Airsoft magazine did an article.

I have played with various other teams along the way and have become good friends with them.

I can mainly be found at First and Only the Mall in Reading for my team’s birthday games etc. and at Warminster Airsoft which is where I am happy to call it my home.

I am now team commander of Team Saxon.

I set up my team in May 2011 and we have been kicking ass and expanding ever since. We have built up a great reputation on and off the field and are always looking for new teams to challenge us.  We play hard and play fair. We shout loud and you know when we are coming for you, but we also have a sneaky squad, generally led by myself, I let Alex do the shouting. Just watch your backs guys as while you are busy fighting Alex and the loud crew you aren’t noticing us sneaking up behind you.

I started off borrowing guns for the first year of playing, until I wanted something I could call my own. So I got Betsy. She is still my old faithful an AA L85; she is about 4 years old as I bought her 2nd hand from a friend for £40.  She has beautiful range and great rate of fire and has never let me down, she won’t do single shot too well though.

All my guns are 2nd hand, I prefer to give them a loving home and fix them up myself as opposed to buying brand new. I am pretty good at getting some great bargains. I now own: L85, M4, XM717, Hicappa 4.3, a pair of Hicappa 5.1 Dragons, MP5-J, Desert Eagle HK, to name but a few, but the armoury is forever expanding. 

I play at Warminster on a regular basis and I will be attending the Christmas game on the 16th December 2012. I am looking forward to this game as I have decided to raise some money for Help for Heroes. This charity is close to my heart as it is with many others, the work they do is incredible and without them not a lot would have happened. They have more than anything increased the public awareness of what “our troops” really do for us. Unfortunately I have lost some friends over the years as they have been unable to return from Afghanistan, but I also know people who have come back not quite as they went out. It is for those people that I wish to help raise some money and for everyone else.

As it has almost become tradition for someone silly to dress in barely anything for charity at a Christmas game – more commonly a bloke wearing the Borat mankini – I have decided I think I can do better!

At the Warminster Christmas game I will be dressing up for charity, I have spoken to Dave Ridgeway who runs the site and I will be incorporated into the game plan too. There will be a photographer or two on site as well so I can also post the photos afterwards. 

I am asking for people to consider donating whatever you can spare to H4H to support me in exposing my body to the wintery weather of December in England. I dislike the cold a lot, but feel it would not be anywhere near as harsh as the conditions that “our troops” have to put up with when on serving Queen and Country.

If you fancy coming along to play or even just to support me I will be at the following address on December 16th:

Skirmish Warminster
Norridge Woods
Bath Road
Warminster
Wiltshire
BA12 7RZ

If you are unable to attend please do not feel you cannot support me, I have set up a direct donation page:

www.bmycharity.com/tashavaughan.