History
Special Ops Paintball was started by Jayson Orvis, with brothers Jared Orvis and Rory McCarthy as partners. Their first development was the A-5A2 Air-through Stock.
The company launched their official online store and "Special Ops Brigade" web site in November 2004. The company then began publication of "Recon Magazine" in June 2006. In November 2008, the magazine was converted to a free online version and continues to be updated as of March 2010.
Due to the failing economy, Special Ops discontinued producing hard goods in 2009. Then Director of Soft Goods, Brian Russell purchased the company's public brands and relaunched the company as a division of Xtreme Stitchworks. Maintaining most of the brand's identity, Russell chose to focus the company's direction on soft goods while diversifying into wholesale manufacturing and other sporting goods markets.
Read more about this topic: Special Ops Paintball
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“I assure you that in our next class we will concern ourselves solely with the history of Egypt, and not with the more lurid and non-curricular subject of living mummies.”
—Griffin Jay, and Reginald LeBorg. Prof. Norman (Frank Reicher)
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)