AAR [HLL PC] EXFOR FNF 09OCT2026

[Roderick.S]

Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: EXFOR FNF 09OCT2026
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 09OCT2026
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2359z
Mission OICs: Giglio.M
Mission Controller: Giglio.M
CRCON STATS
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Number of Attendees: 50

Captain Sotelo.R
Captain Swanson.B
First Lieutenant DAmico.J
Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
First Sergeant Koalafied.C
Staff Sergeant Kenton.W
Sergeant Banfield.H
Sergeant Darko.M
Sergeant Donk.B
Sergeant Fox.F
Sergeant Moff.N
Sergeant Roscoe.N
Sergeant Vonk.K
Corporal Ellison.C
Corporal Giglio.M
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Mustard.C
Corporal Rasmus.M
Corporal Wagner.D
Corporal Walton.D
Specialist Bauvil.C
Specialist Burgess.S
Specialist Buscemi.A
Specialist Corn.D
Specialist Donald.J
Specialist Eri.C
Specialist Freeze.T
Specialist Garner.P
Specialist Gruen.G
Specialist MacAlister.P
Specialist Milkovic.D
Specialist Owlson.P
Specialist Sanders.J
Specialist Scratch.J
Specialist Simmons.T
Specialist Stout.S
Specialist Stripes.P
Specialist Walden.M
Specialist West.T
Private First Class Bouzer.M
Private First Class Brosh.B
Private First Class Maverick.J
Private First Class Schumaker.J
Private First Class Sine.J
Private First Class Smith.ER
Private First Class Vargas.C
Private First Class Walls.O
Private Remington.J
Recruit Sansone.J

Not Eligible
Specialist Rousseau.A (RET)

 

[Roderick.S]

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


Pros:

Cons:

 

[Fox.F]

Element Callsign: AB Team Leader
Element Leader: Sergeant Fox.F
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Stout.S
Corporal Rasmus.M
Specialist Gruen.G
Specialist Stripes.P
Private First Class Bouzer.M
Private First Class Walls.O


Pros:

• Fantastic job mission commanding from Corporal Giglio.M.
• Excellent tanker briefing from Second Lieutenant Sibley.K and the infantry presentation by Sergeant Donk.B to get the new people up to speed.
• Great 7-man and communications between the squads, great job.
• Recon did a great job spotting tanks, OPs, garrisons and enemy flow.
• Commander played really well and kept a cool head under pressure and was able to transition from offense and defense.

Cons:

• Would like too see a Commander and or Team Leader strategy briefing similar to the Tank Briefing.
• Bad start, mostly it's just rust from 2-7 not playing WW2 as often these days. Might have to plan to plan to be more defensive on the start.
• People not listening to Commander ASAP, people need to be scolded a bit to get in line. Worked out in the end, but something to work on.

 

[Roscoe.N]

Element Callsign: Green Team SL- 2
Element Leader: Sergeant Roscoe.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Walden.M
Private Remington.J
Private Schumaker.J

Pros:

• Excellent game! Very exciting from the start to the finish. The enemy team showed up to play as did we, loved every minute of the match.
• Squads and teams were placed and balanced well.
• My squad played with expert precision, extremely well disciplined and passionate about the game! Very proud to have played and led these troopers!

Cons:

• None really, the match was so much fun and just a cage fight. I think we did everything we could to get that 5-0 victory!

 

[Ellison.C]

Element Callsign: Logistics TL
Element Leader: Corporal Ellison.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Walton.D
Specialist Corn.D
Specialist Sanders.J
Specialist Scratch.J
Private First Class Vargas.C,


Pros:

• Great teamwork and heck of a comeback!
• 5-0

Cons:

• Initial push / lack of coordination in beginning

 

[Sotelo.R]

Element Callsign: Allied Armor 3 - "Cheap & Easy"
Element Leader: Captain Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Sotelo.R
Sergeant Vonk.K
Specialist Eri.C

Pros:

• Amazing teamwork across the board
• Armor Platoon covered the map efficiently and supported each wingman so well
• Infantry callouts were a real boone, and AT infantry did a great job helping supplementing counter-armor defence
• Great work on bouncing back from a rough start
• Command comms were huge

Cons:

• A rough start, we gotta lockdown our initial push into the center obj

 

[West.T]

Element Callsign: Blue SL 2
Element Leader: SPC.West.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.MacAlister.P
SPC.Owlson.P
Specialist Garner.P
Pros:

• Fantastic comms within the unit
• Highly responsive to SL commands
• Defense worked like clockwork, buildables were deployed quickly and effectively

Cons:

• Comms fell apart briefly at the start on defense, though it was resolved quickly

 

[Buscemi.A]

Element Callsign: Blue Team Leader, Jig Squad Leader
Element Leader: SPC.Buscemi.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.West.T
PFC.Smith.ER
SPC.Garner.P
SPC.Owlson.P
SPC.Burgess.S
SPC.MacAlister.P
CPL.Wagner.D
PFC.Brosh.B

Pros:

• Coordination

Cons:

• N/A

 

[Darko.M]

Element Callsign: Red SL 2
Element Leader: Sergeant Darko.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Simmons.T
Staff Sergeant Kenton.W
Specialist Donald.J
Specialist Milkovic.D

Pros:

• Great Communication All Around
• Team made it easy for me as they did what was asked and reacted as needed
• discord as a backup comms was a good idea

Cons:

• A rough start as our truck got stuck
• Too many talking in Command at a time make it hard to hear anything

 

[Sanders.J]

Element Callsign: Love Squad
Element Leader: Specialist Sanders.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Vargas.C
Specialist Scratch.J

Pros:

• Great coms
• Great job being flexible and moving between points and flexing to meet our objective
• Great victory
• Fantastic job all around

Cons:

• Rough start with the initial push
• Command got really stressed initially, but locked in around midpoint, which caused some confusion and frustration at first

 

[Sibley.K]

Element Callsign: Allied Lead Tank - Blood Spire
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
Sergeant Moff.N
Corporal Mustard.C

Pros:

• FNF IS MY FAVORITE THING IN THE CAV LET'S GOOO
• Great work by infantry defending, taking ground, and always getting more garries up
• Awesome anti-tank work, saw tons of harassment of the enemy tanks by our infantry

Cons:

• I was worried that we called for an attack on the 5th point with 11 minutes left in the map. That could easily backfire on us
• We didn't fix the 3-hour server timer before flipping to live. Overall a really minor thing but it's always good to pay attention to where we can tighten up

 

[Donk.B]

Element Callsign:FOX Alllies
Element Leader:SGT.DONK.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Walden
PFC.Bauvil.C

Pros:

• Good opening by Green team, established nodes and border garrison
• Good perseverance by the team after that rough start.

Cons:

• On the opening, could have left HQ 1 later, little bit jumpy in the truck.
• Seems like enough folks didn't drop out of the truck early enough, got rocketed on offensive hardpoint.

 

[Swanson.B]

Element Callsign: Allies Commander
Element Leader: Captain Swanson.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: N/A

Pros

• Tankers: Fantastic performance tonight. I saw medium tanks winning battles against heavies, light tanks taking the initiative to push behind enemy lines and hunt spawns, and excellent coordination and teamwork across all tank crews.
  
  
• Command chat was LOUD. Very loud. It was filled with passionate people sitting on the edge of their seats, sweating and fighting together for the win. Every callout had a purpose, and every concern was raised for a reason. That's what we need in command chat: loud, passionate, but efficient communication.

• All five infantry teams were where they needed to be. Green, Blue, and especially Red were right in the thick of the fighting. Yellow was doing Yellow things, whether on offense or defense, while Blue was saving everyone's ass by rebuilding our spawns. Great teamwork all around!
  
  
• A big thank you to the Mission Ops team. You guys are putting in a lot of work through War Council and behind the scenes to make these events happen. EXFOR is incredibly fun, but also very challenging, and it pushes all of us to work hard and prove that our weekly training has a purpose.

Cons

• This is the second HLL WWII EXFOR match in a row where we have had a rough start. We need to rethink our approach because the current method clearly isn't working as well as it should. I'll put together a plan to improve this, as I already have an idea of how we could handle things differently.

• Do not tell the Commander to hold off on discussing strategy or making callouts and save it for the hot wash. The Commander is in charge of the match. They make decisions, direct people where they are needed, and communicate the team's next moves as they see fit. Their job is to lead the team toward victory, which sometimes means pointing out what is going wrong and explaining how we need to fix it during the game. Feel free to challenge decisions or strategies, but do not tell the Commander to hold off until the hot wash. Leading, communicating, and adjusting our approach in real time is literally their job.

 

[Smith.ER]

Element Callsign: Blue Team
Element Leader: PFC.Smith.ER
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Wagner.D
SPC.Burgess.S

Pros:

• Fantastic bounce back after a bit of a rocky start
• Garrisons were being rebuilt quickly after being taken down
• tankers and infantry both crushed it and were playing well together

Cons:

• command comms were often quite hectic with people over talking and yelling

 

[Giglio.M]

Element Callsign: Red SL Lead./ S3 Mission controller
Element Leader: Corporal Giglio.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Jinto.H
Private First Class Maverick.J
Recruit Sansone.J



Pros:

• Out standing help from my colleges helping with putting on the event,couldn't of done it with out you!!
• Awesome team work and passion from all squad leads!
• Amazing work from our tankers breaking lines and defending all game.
• Sergeant Darko ran his fire team with outstanding flexibility the entire match!
• Great early sign ups thru out the week!
• the pre game tactical overview from donk and Sibley created a great structure for our troopers.

Cons:

• A few hiccups in the beginning, but we still persevered.
• I DO NOT like people arguing with the commander mid game. its a huge moral killer for the whole team ,we have hot wash for a reason.
• My victory twerking was a little amateur,felt like i didn't twerk as good as i could for the troopers. hope no one was disappointed .

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operations Processed