In 1965 drafting efforts by the U.S. military had risen to an all time high, and four young men from a small town in Northern California were called upon to serve their country. Over the many years of military service the four shed blood, sweat, and tears together as they transformed from a group of boys into a band of brothers. War forged a seemingly unbreakable brotherhood that would shape their vision of the future.The four men that returned to Pleasanton were changed. Hardened by war and violence, they rebelled against the government and society that had abandoned them to a savage war half way across the globe. They struggled to adjust to a normal life, and to provide for their young growing families. Violence was the only skill they had truly learned, and there was little room for that in civil society. Connections from their past offered a lucrative future in the sale of illegal weapons, and the four men were once more tied together by duty.
Their endeavor took form in the shape of an organization funded by guns, transported by motorcycles, and welded by brotherhood. They called themselves the Hells Legion for the unit that had survived the darkest places of humanity. The Founding Four were Clifford Montgomery, Nathaniel Westport, Henry Atwater, and Alfred Taylor. Together with four other members in 1975 they began selling illegal Irish guns to local gangs in Oakland, California.
The apparently strong bonds of brotherhood were irrevocably severed in 1979 when one of the Founding Four was tempted by the newest drug craze from Colombia. Alfred Taylor proposed for the club to begin selling cocaine, but he was adamantly opposed by more than half of the club. He would abandoned the men that had fought beside him for years, and found a new club in Oakland -- The Raiders. Honor demanded Taylor's death, but his former brothers were unable to seek such drastic retribution.
Official peace has never been settled between the clubs. There have been years of quiet, and many years of intense war between them. Much has been made of the Founding Four, and they have become more legends than men. As has the doomed breaking of their friendship. The clubs have attempted to modernize, and shift with the changing of the guard. Many of the club members now own legitimate businesses but the majority of the club's revenue is still made in the sale of illegal weapons.