[HLL:V] EXFOR FNF 02OCT2026

[Kenton.W]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: EXFOR FNF 02OCT2026
Game: Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
Server Hosted on: BR1 Event Server #1
Date of Combat Mission: 02 OCT 26
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0100Z
Mission OIC: Lieutenant Colonel Mix.C
Mission Controller: Lieutenant Colonel Mix.C
Secondary Mission Controller:
Number of Attendees: 44

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Lieutenant Colonel Mix.C
Captain Swanson.B
First Lieutenant Conner.D
First Lieutenant Elliker.K
First Lieutenant Roderick.S
Second Lieutenant Lewis.P
Sergeant Major White.C
Staff Sergeant Kenton.W
Sergeant Banfield.H
Sergeant Fox.F
Sergeant Moff.N
Sergeant Roscoe.N
Sergeant Tyszka.C
Corporal Doss.T
Corporal Ellison.C
Corporal Hoover.T
Corporal Rasmus.M
Corporal Shults.M
Corporal Stephens.J
Corporal West.R
Specialist Anthony.M
Specialist Corn.D
Specialist Freeze.T
Specialist Farmer.D
Specialist Fenrir.J
Specialist Perrier.J
Specialist Powell.R
Specialist McCann.C
Specialist Rush.J
Specialist Sanders.J
Specialist Stout.S
Specialist Walden.M
Private First Class Bizutto.A
Private First Class Hunt.R
Private First Class Lindner.S
Private First Class Noren.M
Private First Class Smith.ER
Private First Class Vargas.C
Private Austin.C
Private Bouzer.M
Private Crider.K
Private Schumaker.J
Private Tursky.S
Private Whitaker.R

 

[Kenton.W]

Element Callsign:
Element Leader:
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros:

Cons:

 

[Farmer.D]

Element Callsign: Logistics
Element Leader: SGM.White.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

SPC.Farmer.D
SPC.Fenrir.J

Pros:

• Great command chat coordination
• SPC.Fenrir.J was on the spot with supplies

Cons:

• Logistics defense is slower than offense but still fun

 

[Kenton.W]

Element Callsign: Green Team
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Kenton.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Roderick.S
Corporal Doss.T
Corporal Hoover.T
Specialist Sanders.J
Specialist Stout.S
Private First Class Smith.ER
Private Bouzer.M

Pros:

• Great game, first victory in Vietnam!
• Comms were very clean on every channel, no unnecessary chatter, good call outs.
• We had very good map control the entire game

Cons:

• We need to work on AT. Their tanks were running all over the cap and it seemed like we struggled to take them out.
• We needed another squad to flex south when they were in our backline. They wiped our logi team out.

 

[Bizutto.A]

Element Callsign: USA Item squad
Element Leader: PFC.Bizutto.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Corn.D
SPC.Walden.M


Pros:

• Amazing comms,
• great flow of combat being able to swap from offence to defence.
• Amazing comms, great flow of combat being able to swap from offence to defence.

Cons:

• Can use a little more speed with 7 man swaps.

 

[Ellison.C]

Element Callsign: Fox
Element Leader: Corporal Ellison.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Crider.K, Private First Class Noren.M

Pros: Fantastic Command Comms. Great strategy. Red Team as a whole was an efficient cohesive unit. Ton of fun!

Cons: Should have been a 5-0

 

[Swanson.B]

Element Callsign: USA Recon Spotter
Element Leader: Captain Swanson.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: N/A


Pros:

• 7 garrisons, 16 outposts destroyed.... I mean.... Couldn't have asked for a better performance from myself!
• Flares were great tonight. Got a lot information on enemy flow, spawns and overall attacks with them.
• Command comms was a little cluttered, yes, thats a Pros! It was but with great calls and great comments. I loved that somethings we were challenging each other on calls. I think it made us better overall.
• Hellicopter did a great job roaming around, killing boats and tunnels. This task is very hard and they acheived it very well.
• Love the medics. All our medics were very good tonight and got a lot of res. This is a crutial role in vietnam.

Cons:

• We didn't 5-0 them.
  Boats are easy to kill. Some stayed too long on the map. Just send an AT with 2 rockets.

 

[Sanders.J]

Element Callsign: Green Team Transport Helo
Element Leader:
Specialist Sanders.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Whitaker.R



Pros:

• Thoroughly enjoyed taking out boats and tunnels form the helicopter.
• Excellent comms throughout the match.
• Great use of helicopters by command to put pressure on enemy forces.

Cons:

• Nothing to add.

 

[Rasmus.M]

Element Callsign: Quebec-Lima Recon Squad
Element Leader: Corporal Rasmus.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Rasmus.M

Pros:

• Victory !
• We saw some improvements compared to the first match.
• Great sense of timing regarding when to consolidate on defense.
• Good map control, the frontline was reestablished when we were weak or collapsing on one side. Seems like different teams held their assignments.
• Saw great things from the helicopters, destroying boats, delivering supplies and troopers all around, spotting. Great job.

Cons:

• We need to get faster on killing those boats when spotted (rockets).
• Should focus a little bit more our Zone Of Control within the 4-grids.

 

[Fox.F]

Element Callsign: Red Team Leader
Element Leader: Sergeant Fox.F
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Ellison.C
Private First Class Bizutto.A
Private First Class Hunt.R
Specialist Corn.D
Private Crider.K
Private First Class Noren.M
Private First Class Lindner.S
Specialist Walden.M

Pros:

• Great Comms. Great movement between squads.
• Perrier as Team Leader played great and should be a go to for future Team Leading Roles.
• Amazing Tanking and Recon

Cons:

• Missed the 5 cap

 

[Roscoe.N]

Element Callsign: Logistics SL 2
Element Leader: SGT.Roscoe.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Excellent, decipherable command communications. Although busy, I could hear myself think! It was never overly crowded.
• Great teamwork and effort overall, almost everything we did was expertly planned and executed. The enemy team was outgunned and outplayed, but it wasn't from a lack of effort from the enemy team.
• Great game, enjoyable experience this beautiful Friday evening.

Cons:

• I would have preferred at least one additional squad member with me. Being a part of the logistics team, it's important to have easy, mobile supplies at a moments notice, which I was not able to have. During the match, Mix had asked me a couple of times to build garrisons to which I had no realistic means to do so. Maybe moving forward, we make it mandatory to have two man squads for logistics.

 

[Elliker.K]

Element Callsign: Armor 1
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Elliker.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Sergeant Banfield.H
• Private Tursky.S

Pros:

• Good command and control from all leaders, especially commander
• Performed well with teammates that don't normally play with

Cons:

• Multiple disconnections occurred and there were missed opportunities

 

[Freeze.T]

Element Callsign: Mortar Squad 2
Element Leader: Specialist Freeze.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Moff.N

Pros:

• Winning is fun
• Effective command comms, although loud at times
• Use of helicopters for quick deployment at match beginning to set up the front line on the enemy side of the point was big in setting us up to cap.

Cons:

• Outflanked from the river most of the match. Resulted in the squad defending from infantry attacks at the rear and unable to respond to most of command's requests for mortar strikes.
• The only requests for mortars came from command. Suggest more emphasis be placed on infantry squads to calling for mortar fire support as area denial or suppression. Otherwise we can only guess where to fire based on friendly locations, map markers, or commander callouts.

 

[Hoover.T]

Element Callsign: US - Tare Squad (Green Team)
Element Leader: Corporal Hoover.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Doss.T

Pros:
A. Great comms! Best I think I've ever witnessed personally. I think when it comes to comms we very much nailed it.
B. Mix did fantastic making sure we knew what we needed to do as a team and our team did fantastic making sure we did what he said,
never seen the cav move so quick to switch between offense and defense.
C. Our back line defense and fall back garries were great. Garries were placed very well! Had them get behind us only a couple times and both times it didn't take long until they were cleared.
D. Our front line held very well most of the game as well as just having a pretty solid structure.
E. Overall strategy was executed VERY WELL.
F. Doss and I worked very well as a two man and Kenton made a good decision having me be the SL to go behind enemy lines, Doss did great helping me take out 3 to 4 garries and take out about 4 to 5 tunnels as well as a boat and its supplies it dropped. We were just behind the enemy taking out all their infrastructure as well as hurting their tanks, sometimes before they even got near friendlies. SHOUT OUT DOSS!! (Also Swanson was back there doing a lot with us too, shoutout Swanson).

I could keep going cause we just did that good but I'll leave it there on the pros.


Cons:
I feel like at least at a few points in the match we had a bit of a lack of more front facing garries, made it a bit hard to get back in the fight quickly after my OP went down.

 

[Conner.D]

Element Callsign: Mortar Team
Element Leader: 1LT Conner.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC Powell.R

Pros:

• Deliberate team movement enabled us to steadily push forward in synch with each other
• CMD Chat RTO procedures were good but at times I felt we reported too much and it cluttered the channel
• Defensive play was really good, we didn't fight over the same ground twice; everyone adapted well and knocked down rear area threats as they presented

Cons:

• Cluttered command chat at times
• Need to replace garrisons faster, better resupply procedures
• Need to understand that we had a natural barrier with that river on the west and wall on the east which helped us a lot in slowing their flanking actions and keep that in mind for the next match, solution would be to move in more of a box formation if we can pull it off-everything depends on METT-TC though

 

[Perrier.J]

Element Callsign: Blue Team Leader
Element Leader: Perrier.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
West.R
Tyszka.C
McCann.C
Austin.C
Stephens.J
Lane.R
Whitaker.R
Schumaker.J
Shults.M

Pros:

• First victory on Vietnam!
• Great teamwork all around
• We did a great job defending west side of the point.

Cons:

• Command chat may have been cluttered in the second half
• First time TL on my part. Focused a lot on my squad movement. Should have communicate more within our team.

 

[Rush.J]

Element Callsign: Dog
Element Leader: Specialist Rush.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Second Lieutenant Lewis.P


Pros:

• Excellent command comms
• 2LT Lewis was an excellent co-pilot
• Great utilization of the supply helo throughout the match
• Strategy to utilize helos for anti-boat purposes was a great idea
• Mix always made sure we had helos available when needed

Cons:

• I crashed too many times

 

[Mix.C]

Element Callsign: US Command
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Mix.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: NA


Pros:

• Each team was more or less tracking their mission and executing as asked. This kept us balanced on defense and provided constant pressure on the enemy.
• Consistent fall back garrisons kept us from getting in trouble on defense
• Good turnout
• Great attitude and effort. Very pleased with the teams over all vibe
• Massively out shot the enemy. Get wrecked other communities!

Cons:

• Too many no call no shows. We need to improve on this.
• Opened a gap on the west side of the objective that allowed the enemy to pressure us and stay in the game. Need to improve on front line cohesion.
• Use of helicopters was undercooked. Need to spend time solidifying how we want to employ them.
• Some issues with garrison spacing
• 81 kills but 18 TKs. If I could have gotten one more TK I'd have had 100 kills total.

 

[White.C]

Element Callsign: Logistics Platoon leader
Element Leader: Sergeant Major White.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Anthony.M

Pros:

• Communication was fantastic, Spawns were called out accurately and destroyed swiftly.

Cons:

• no cons