David Ooi

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David Ooi Heap Sheng is the current Commanding Officer of Night Owls NERF Community.

## Biography

Although he did play with the Night Owls' predecessor sporadically, David first formally joined the Night Owls during its reestablishment in 2012. He became inactive until mid-2014 when he rejoined during the ramp up in preparation for Jade Hills II. By this time he had already established a reputation as a firm believer of skills over equipment, and was willing to experiment with unorthodox modifications and tactics.

### Jade Hills II

David joined the Night Owls contingent to Jade Hills II as Blasters & Modifications Officer, playing in a heavy assault role by wielding a Stryfe and an Airzone rocket to destroy enemy shields. However, due to the rain that dominated the first round, motorized blasters like the Stryfe often short circuited and were out of commission. Nevertheless, he made dry runs at opponents to force them to retreat, thinking that he was firing at them. He was also one of the few to verbally call out enemy positions and movements, as well as instructions to the rest of the team.

When the second match started, David took upon himself to direct the disorganized Red Team forces at the hill top, which eventually most of the Red strength was massed there. When the fireteam led by Francis Nyeo broke through Yellow Team's line at the bottom, he started to push, engaging two of the enemy's most competent commanders. However, Red Team's line broke at mid hill and the opposing team rushed towards the Red base, encircling David's forces. Regardless, he and the bulk of his force fought a delaying action to enable a small team led by Sidewinder Neo to escape and meet up with Francis' fireteam.

Despite the previous losses, David came up with a strategy for the third match. By now he was formally in charge of the entire Red Team, commanding units at the hill top. He directed the main thrust of the offensive at the hill top, supported by all of Red Team's available shields. Working in parallel with Kelvin Ng, another vocal commander, the duo defended their positions in fierce close quarters fighting.

During a Yellow Team attack, the Red Team's primary shield fell, and with heavy enemy fire the rest of the team was unable to recover it. David charged towards enemy lines with a jammed Vulcan to direct attention away it, despite the blaster not being able to fire at all. One Yellow Team player was recorded to remark: "Oh shit, they've moved the machinegun [unintelligible]." The shield was recovered. These actions later won him one of the three Commander's Ribbon of Commendation awarded at the Jade Hills II.

He continued to bide his time, using the Red's shields and terrain to his advantage and forcing his opponents to dig in or launch costly attacks. At noon, he gave the order to push, forcing the now undermanned Yellow line at the hill top to retreat and eventually won the game by tagout.

Recognized for his performance, tactical acumen and command abilities, David quickly rose through the ranks, eventually taking command of the Night Owls contingent to Jade Hills III.

### Jade Hills III

    David was assigned as field commander of the Joint Forces Coalition, later the Yellow Team at Jade Hills III. Under his command were 40 men, including Night Owls members who were veterans of the Battle of Jade Hills II, as well as at least 4 shields and the 8-man Roughnecks detachment led by Sidewinder Neo and Akira Uchiha.

Building his strategy around the shields which are tasked with spearheading the main attack, David again took personal command of units at the hill top, pushing with the shields. When the Red Team made a fatal mistake of leaving one of their medic bags at their base, which was subsequently confiscated, David was able to push his armoured spearhead through the hill top, and went down to the middle to direct the final encirclement.

However, exhaustion began to take its toll with the long first round. In the second and third rounds players from both teams began abandoning their positions shelter from the heat, and critically for Yellow, the shields. This caused the Red to be able to launch a massive attack through David's sector. Despite his best efforts, the loss of players from exhaustion was too great to overcome, save for an instance where the Roughnecks at top hill was able to nearly push through by sheer skill and determination.

### 2017 IICP Tournament

David led the Combined Task Force Alpha, one of the Night Owls teams in the 2017 IICP NERF Tournament in his first true small unit command, as well as his first close quarters combat assignment.

In the semi-finals against Egg Yolk, David first led the assault against the opposition's base, and when both teams exchanged flags in the middle of the battle, he switched to the defensive, having Maximus Lee retrieve the team's flag while he guarded the south stairwell. He was then engaged in an almost minute long standoff with an Egg Yolk player coming from the stairwell, holding them off until Maximus returned to base with the Night Owls flag and winning the game.

During the final, David ran diversions at the enemy's sides and rear for the rest of the team to attempt to hold the 'hill'. The team won silver in the event.

### Handover of Command

David assumed front-line command of Night Owls' units when Francis Nyeo stepped back into a managerial role in 2015. His outstanding performance led him to serve 2 terms as Executive Officer before formally taking over as Commanding Officer in 2018.

## Achievements

Citation for the Commander's Ribbon of Commendation:

> Awarded to David Ooi for exceeding all expectations and performing above and beyond the call of duty during combat in Jade Hills II. As a frontline pointman, David noticed the disarray in overall command and communications of Red Team. Without hesitation, he took to regain control of frontline units and reshaped them into an effective fighting force and repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to draw away their attention, contributing greatly to overall morale and victory in the final round.
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## Trivia

David likes to experiment with blasters, and strongly prefers manual blasters to electronic ones. The iconic blasters that he used were a Proton modified with a DIY top feed magazine, as well as a Retaliator that is able to eject and load a clip with its bolt forward.

He also enjoys playing real time strategy games such as Command and Conquer, Sudden Strike and others.

As of Team2018, David is the most highly decorated Night Owls member and the only one to be awarded the Order of Tactics in all four clasps, as well as the only one to be awarded the 'Strategy' clasp in any grade.