AAR Arma Reforger | Operation Iron Tether

MacMillan.M

1st Lieutenant

Active Duty

C/1-7 HQ

S3 Lead/Senior

Local time

4:48 AM

512

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7th Cavalry Regiment
Operation Iron Tether | 08AUG26​

Event: Operation Iron Tether
Date: 08AUG26
Game: Arma Reforger
Server: =7Cav= Training Server 1
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2130
Window (Zulu): 2130Z - 0130Z

Mission OIC BLUFOR: Master Sergeant Willson.JA
Mission Controller(s): First Lieutenant MacMillan.M, Specialist Sawyer.H, Specialist Tremblay, Second Lieutenant Mobius.T

Number of Attendees: 48

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Hilberg.A
Major Lewis.A
Major Rodahl.S
First Lieutenant Vaughn.V
Second Lieutenant Mobius.T
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Master Sergeant Borenstein.B
Master Sergeant Mazinski.H
Master Sergeant Willson.JA
Staff Sergeant McAllen.J
Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
Sergeant Clegg.M
Sergeant Giordano.C
Sergeant Howe.T
Sergeant Mackey.A
Corporal Bolte.D
Corporal Bosley.B
Corporal Grey.T
Corporal Harrel.R
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal McGahan.L
Corporal McGill.A
Corporal Pearl.F
Corporal Russell.JG
Corporal Wagner.D
Corporal Yota.G
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Chisum.J
Specialist Coner.J
Specialist Ford.R
Specialist Harry.J
Specialist Jonez.M
Specialist Kron.D
Specialist Max.G
Specialist McKinley.K
Specialist Miranda.M
Specialist Sawyer.H
Specialist Studs.J
Specialist Tremblay
Specialist Weather.J
Private First Class Nguy.B
Private Burns.J
Private Molitor.K

[Console - needs recon]
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Pros:

Cons:
- Not sure the admin tools "AI Agents" is accurate

 

Last edited: Aug 9, 2026

Coner.J

Corporal

Active Duty

1/A/1-7 SL/ASL

S1 Lead/Senior

RTC Staff

S7 Staff

Local time

7:48 PM

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Archangel
Element Leader: Specialist Coner.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Specialist Jonez.M
Specialist Studs.J

Pros:

• Had a good time, good communication

Cons

• Lost x2 Sparrows during the operation

 

McAllen.J

Staff Sergeant

Active Duty

1/A/1-7 SL/ASL

S7 Lead/Senior

Local time

9:48 PM

495

257

• Aug 9, 2026

• #3

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Bandit-7
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant McAllen.J


Pros:

• Plenty of casualties throughout the Op
• Nobody died under care with the assistance of troopers and CLS's on the ground
• Decent comms with the squads/platoon leadership for tasking
• Operation was very enjoyable
• Got to get into contact in both the PB before it was secured and managed to get a 630m shot from my CCP on a ION soldier

Cons:

• The convoy step off and aviation support took long due to late joining of platoon leadership
• The use of 63 was very minimal tonight
• The AO was far stretched due to the FRAGOs which would cause longer movements to MEDEVAC
• Lack of mutual support with squads after we reached the PB
• The terrain caused a lot of vehicle movement issues

Notes: I feel like the scope of the mission was way too large for the amount of members available which made the Op feel very awkward and caused issues throughout the Op. I enjoyed the Op but this felt more like a Firefight Friday Op versus an official 7Cav only Operation which isn't always bad but I feel it doesn't represent our culture well.

 

Mazinski.H

Master Sergeant

Active Duty

1/A/1-7 HQ

RTC Lead/Senior

S7 Staff

S3 Staff

Local time

7:48 PM

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1,570

• Aug 9, 2026

• #4

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
​

Element Callsign: HELIOS-1
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Mazinski.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Master Sergeant Mazinski.H
Corporal Bolte.D
Specialist Miranda.M
Private Burns.J

Pros:

• Was able to get the PB set up quickly and was able to effectively operate out of it
• Got some IDF work
• Got some demo work
• Was able to do some shooting and building clearance

Cons

• Really rough convoy, really should not have been busting through contact on a route we were intending to use for supply movement and could have easily killed the entire op if one of our trucks were hit on the run-in
• Platoon net was very crowded, had to turn off nets multiple times throughout the op because of the volume of traffic
• Horrendous crash rates, at one point more than half of the platoon was disconnected
• Agree with 7, this felt far more like a FFF than an official operation

 

Grey.T

Corporal

Active Duty

1/C/1-7 SL/ASL

Local time

7:48 PM

396

161

• Aug 9, 2026

• #5

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
​

Element Callsign: Bandit 3
Element Leader: Corporal Grey.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Pearl.F
Specialist Chisum.J
Specialist Ford.R
Specialist McKinley.K
Corporal Wagner.D
Private First Class Nguy.B

Pros:

• Good team work
• Great communication
• The trooper is excited for the new servers to come.
• Found weapons Cache & Terrorist camp, Utilized Helios for Demo.
• Sparrow worked well with us.
• No deaths

Cons

• The servers health was lacking, large disconnects happened.
• Some troopers were bored at times.

 

Smith.DM

Staff Sergeant

Active Duty

1/C/1-7 SL/ASL

S3 Lead/Senior

Local time

10:48 PM

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160

• Aug 9, 2026

• #6

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
​

Element Callsign: BANDIT-5
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Good and fun OP
• Good work from all squads
• Aviation assets did excellent, very responsive and worked with me well
• Good communication with Bandit-6

Cons

• If we are using mortars and aviation in the same OP, we should have a chaos to direct fires / deconflict with eachother.
• Squads were often outside of MSR of eachother
• Weapons squad was utilized as a beefed up standard squad, but mostly due to lack of a Bandit-1
• Radio traffic was... a lot... too much talking on the radio, not sure why. Could be due to the constant orders going out and people having a lot of questions.
• I showed up a couple minutes late due to poor time management / planning on my end, which resulted in a botched convoy and a late start despite teams being ready on time. My fault team.

 

Harry.J

Specialist

Active Duty

2/C/1-7

Local time

7:48 PM

119

43

• Aug 15, 2026

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Element Callsign: Bandit 2
Element Leader: Specialist Harry.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Sergeant Clegg.M
Sergeant Howe.T
Sergeant Giordano.C
Corporal Russell.JG
Corporal Bosley.B
Corporal McGahan.L
Specialist Max.G
Specialist Dalton.J
Specialist McGill.A

Pros:

• Good Communication
• Fluid movements

Cons:
Connection issues
Overextending the Squad's capability

 

Last edited: Aug 15, 2026

Rutkowski.P

Sergeant

Active Duty

1/C/1-7 SL/ASL

DEVCOM

RRD Lead/Senior

S1 Lead/Senior

S1 Staff

S2 Staff

Local time

4:48 AM

4,603

1,267

• Aug 15, 2026

• #8

S1 Locked.

 

Rutkowski.P

Sergeant

Active Duty

1/C/1-7 SL/ASL

DEVCOM

RRD Lead/Senior

S1 Lead/Senior

S1 Staff

S2 Staff

Local time

4:48 AM

4,603

1,267

• Aug 15, 2026

• #9

S1 Locked.