TA Events has announced that they're taking bookings for their upcoming milsim event, Phoenix Rising, on the 26th to 27th of April 2008... "The "Agency" is an intelligence agency of the US Government. Six months ago, the deputy director of the agency's Special Operations Division authorised the creation of a new Special Ops project known as Project Phoenix. This project was responsible for the funding and training of an anti-Russian movement based in Azerbaijan. The training during the project came from US ex-special forces personnel and consisted of training in covert operations in order to carry out strikes against Russian military units and establishments. Training also covered the usage of chemical warfare, using a VX nerve agent known as TX60.

However, details of the project were exposed several months after it had begun. Colin Anderson, the agency's Director, ordered the immediate shutdown of the project. Further more, investigation in to the project revealed that what appeared to be an anti-Russian movement was in fact a Russian ultra-nationalist group with an entirely different agenda.

Anderson now has a tough decision on his hands. Inform the President of the current situation and of how a rogue agency deputy director funded and trained a Russian ultra-nationalist group, or deal with the crisis within the walls of Langley and sweep the remains under the carpet. The latter was the chosen option.

It was decided that elements of the agency's Special Activities Division (S.A.D), with the authorisation to use Georgian airspace would use Chinooks to enter across the Azerbaijan border from Turkey and hit the training camp with a surprise attack. Intelligence agencies within Azerbaijan were informed of the situation and were asked to provide additional support.

The operation required the agency's S.A.D, with the support of a local Azerbaijani military force to carry out a surprise raid on the training camp with the following objectives:

• Eliminate all Russian ultra-nationalists
• Eliminate all US weapon technicians
• Identify the location of all weapon caches and destroy them
• Recover the four boxes of TX60 nerve agent canisters
• Eliminate all air defence batteries within the camp
• Secure the satellite communication hardware
• Locate all intel which could provide information on the ultra-nationalists intentions.

But above all else, nothing was to survive!"