AAR Arma Reforger | Firefight Friday (OCT) 068 | 30OCT26 @ 2200Z

[Giordano.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

S3 BATTLE STAFF

Headquarters

7th Cavalry Regiment

COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Firefight Friday 68 Operation Nova (Halloween Special Event)
Campaign of Combat Mission N/A
Number within campaign: N/A
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Tactical Realism GM Server

Date of Combat Mission: 30OCT26
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z

Mission OIC:
Sergeant First Class Smith.DM

Mission Controller(s):
Staff Sergeant Giordano.C
Sergeant Bosley.B

Number of Attendees: 23

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Sergeant Bolte.D
Sergeant Howe.T
Sergeant West.R
Sergeant Grey.T
Sergeant Riley.D
Corporal Harrel.R
Corporal Flint.J
Corporal Brown.G
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Russell.JG
Corporal McKinley.K
Corporal Woodford.F
Corporal Garrick.S
Corporal Weather.J
Specialist Brad.T
Specialist Doodeck.C
Specialist Max.G
Specialist Ford.R
Private First Class Hollywood.C
Private First Class Gonzalez.J
Private Flame.M
Recruit Jones.HS




Public Players:
-7cav-Nance
DeCann.A

 

[Weather.J]

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

Element Callsign: Gunsliinger-7
Element Leader:
Corporal Weather.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant West.R
Corporal Russell.JG

Pros:

• None

Cons:

• No radios
• Felt very un organized due to the lack of radios communication

 

[Grey.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Gunsliinger-3
Element Leader: Sergeant Grey.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal McKinley.K
Corporal Brown.G
Specialist Brad.T
Specialist Doodeck.C
Private First Class Hollywood.C
Private First Class Gonzalez.J
Specialist Max.G
Specialist Ford.R

Specialist DeCann.A - Disch

Pros:

• Was a lot of fun
• The chaos intensified, and was interesting
• Absolutely intense moments!

Cons:

• Some communications did not go trough, for some troopers.
• Calling sectors of fire, though the flashlights did help.

 

[Bolte.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Gunsliinger-7
Element Leader: Sergeant Bolte.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Flint.J

Pros:

• SOOOOOO MUCH FUN and had an amazing blast!
• Lots of contact and constant being tested made for lots of fast on the fly adjustments for the PLT to best defend themselves
• Illumination rounds were the biggest savior of this OP as the light was key to adding to the 360 security.

Cons:

• Using a MK19 inside of 5 meters of the truck with friendlies in front and shooting at them directly

 

[Smith.DM]

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

Element Callsign: Gunsliinger-6
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Smith.DM
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros:

• Incredible operation
• GM's did fantastic - was very immersive
• Even though we were overwhelmed at multiple points, it felt so good - didn't feel like too much. Very immersive zombie hoards
• Don't think I've ever laughed that much in an operation
• All elements were great - gunslinger elements performed their tasks beautifully, and Helios was great as well.
• Gun-7 Elements were very responsive and stayed busy the entire operation
• Great story building from the GMs
• Through together the OIC portion of the OPORD last minute as no one signed up, but I had a great time with that nonetheless
• No radios was very immersive
• No NVGs were very immersive too

Cons:

• None - FANTASTIC OPERATION

 

[Garrick.S]

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

Element Callsign:
Gunslinger-1

Element Leader:
Sergeant Garrick.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Harrel.R
Sergeant Howe.T
Sergeant Nance.T
Sergeant Riley.D
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Woodford.F
Private Flame.M
Recruit Jones.HS

Pros:

• Having no radios was extremely immersive, as well as being limited down to flashlights. The environment created was fantastic.
• Despite lack of radios, element leaders were able to communicate very effectively with one another. OPORD and a well-marked map played into this too.
• Absolutely wicked operation put on by the GMs.
• Echoing orders was beautifully done. We definitely learned from our last zombie radioless convoy.
• Mods felt solid, no issues.
• Everyone in the squad did phenomenally. Couldn't have asked for a better group of people to survive the apocalypse with.

Cons:

• None. Do this again and I'll be there every time.

Notes:

• These kinds of ops take a different kind of thinking. We need to drop some of our usual ways of working. Open spaces are key and contact should be reacted to with break contacts to create as much space as possible. Loading a fireteam in a vic and dropping back 50m gave us the edge we needed several times!