AAR AAR Able Company 2-7 FTX - Operation The Ridge

[Korfias.F]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Able Company FTX - Operation The Ridge
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 23FEB25
Time of Combat Mission : 7:45 PM EST

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Mission OIC: Major Rollins.R, First Lieutenant Korfias.F & First Sergeant Webber.R
Mission Controller: Major Rollins.R, First Lieutenant Korfias.F & First Sergeant Webber.R
Number of Attendees: 90

Major Rollins.R
Captain Anderson.P
First Lieutenant Huber.B
First Lieutenant Korfias.F
Second Lieutenant Leifried.R
Second Lieutenant Macpherson.C
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Sergeant Major Komar.T
First Sergeant Webber.R
Sergeant First Class Herber.R
Sergeant First Class Hermes.S
Staff Sergeant Karr.H
Staff Sergeant Silvis.B
Staff Sergeant Wisniewski.A
Sergeant Bachelder.A
Sergeant Bean.P
Sergeant Curran.J
Sergeant Laui.M
Corporal Ackelson.K
Corporal Baldrick.D
Corporal Bazzle.J
Corporal Cantrell.J
Corporal Ellison.C
Corporal Emerson.D
Corporal Feathers.A
Corporal Felton.J
Corporal LaRoche.P
Corporal Maca.D
Corporal Markel.Z
Corporal Moreau.M
Corporal OCulien.M
Corporal Patterson.C
Corporal Robertson.S
Corporal Slagg.J
Corporal Sokol.Z
Corporal Von Busch.M
Corporal Wagner.D
Corporal Warren.G
Corporal Willis.B
Specialist Aly.M
Specialist Angels.N
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Daver.R
Specialist Evans.J
Specialist Freeze.T
Specialist Gimson.M
Specialist Grimshaw.J
Specialist Harris.W
Specialist James.M
Specialist Jebediah.S
Specialist Jeff.F
Specialist Jefferzon.Z
Specialist Kugo.El
Specialist McDonald.N
Specialist Mess.L
Specialist Miller.L
Specialist Parton.D
Specialist Plainview.N
Specialist Plummer.M
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Rowe.S
Specialist Shred.C
Specialist Smith.DS
Specialist Svenson.C
Specialist Tawfik.Y
Specialist Watters.W
Specialist Williams.JB
Private First Class Baker.M
Private First Class Charman.P
Private First Class Flick.J
Private First Class Frost.Y
Private First Class Hopper.J
Private First Class Payne.J
Private First Class Yaeger.C
Private Austin.M
Private Baktash.L
Private Becker.J
Private Crooke.A
Private Crooks.A
Private Matthews.A
Private Milkovic.D
Private Pick.S
Private Salvatore.J
Private Smallbeck.E
Private Wallenbeck.S
Recruit Hoff.T

Corporal Reign.A - Retired
Corporal Smith.N - Retired
Specialist Rousseau.A - Retired
Specialist Silvis.C - Retired

 

[Bean.P]

Element Callsign: Squad 5 Axis
Element Leader: Sgt.Bean.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.James
CPL.Ellison
SPC. Kugo
PVT. Smallbeck

Pros:


Cons:

 

[LaRoche.P]

Element Callsign: Squad 5 Axis
Element Leader: Corporal Laroche.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Laui.M
Specialist Svenson.C
Specialist Freeze.T

Pros:

• Excellent squad comms.
• For once, command comms were not TOO hectic.
• Dugout Tank in Elsenborn Ridge is an awful point to take, but if you take it, it's over.

Cons:

• T17 maps are extremely unbalanced.

 

[Wagner.D]

Element Callsign: Squad Easy Axis
Element Leader: Corporal Wagner.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Coporal Felton.J
Specialist McDonald.N
Private First Class Baker.M

Pros:

• Excellent squad comms.
• Four man squad holding West flank
• The rule set was nice, we were able to scout out the enemy node.

Cons:

• No real complaints

 

[Patterson.C]

Element Callsign: Team 1 (1-Allies 2-Axis)
Element Leader:Corporal Patterson.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Spc.Gimson
Spc.Harris
Pfc.Charman

Pros:

• Team did well with defending our nodes
• Team listened well

Cons:

• Felt like chaos when we were trying to take center

 

[Moreau.M]

Element Callsign: Squad 3 Allies
Element Leader: Corporal Moreau.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Bachelder.A
Corporal Markel.Z
Private Becker.J
Private Salvatore.J

Pros:

• Very good squad comms and cohesion
• Airborne flanking is always fun

Cons:

• Elsenborne needs balancing

 

[Jebediah.S]

Element Callsign: Tank Squad Allies
Element Leader: Specialist Jebediah.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Ackelson.K
2LT.Leitfried.R

Pros:

• Great comms from teammates and SLs
• Managed to orchestrate decent infantry/tank coordination
• Fun concept

Cons:

• No Heavy tanks?

 

[Angels.N]

Element Callsign: Allies Infantry "Juliet"
Element Leader: Specialist Nate Angels
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Youssef Tawfik
Private First Class Jax Payne
Retired Corporal Nico Smith

Pros:

• Excellent squad comms.
• Excellent marks on the map.
• Good movement in between open fields and covered areas.
• Good command chat, constant contact reports and callups on events happening.
• No cons ; squad had fun during this FTX even if we lost and we stayed resilient.

Cons:

 

[Curran.J]

Element Callsign: Axis Item Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Curran.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Hopper.J
Specialist Plummer.M
Sergeant Major Komar.T
Corporal Reign.A (RET)
Pros:

• Awesome concept loved the node system
• Command comms weren't terrible
• all squads were organized well and worked together

Cons:

• none had a great time

 

[Wisniewski.A]

Element Callsign: Easy Squad, Allies
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Wisniewski.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Warren.G
Corporal Robertson.S
Private First Class Frost.Y
Private Pick.S
Private Hoff.T

Pros:

• This was a complete meat grinder at the start, which made the ground we took on the west extremely rewarding
• Concept was fun, different enough from vanilla but not crazy complex
• Squad worked extremely well together, solid movement and coms

Cons:

• Need to establish zone control earlier. We threw everything we had at capturing the center point at the start, while the axis forces were setting up and encircling us
• Map fatigue - feels like we've been running Ops on this map over and over

 

[Baldrick.D]

Element Callsign: Axis team Fox infantry squad
Element Leader: CPL.Baldrick.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

SPC.Blade.B
PVT.Milkovic.D
SPC.Rowe.S
PVT.Crooks.A

Pros:

• Great squad comms.
• Very good defensive line until we lost the point then it was kind of hectic

Cons:

• For the allies the only way into Dug out tank that has any sort of cover is the forest to the NW of point

 

[Karr.H]

Element Callsign: Squad George Allies
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Karr.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Emerson.D
Corporal Cantrell.J
Specialist Mess.L
Private Matthews.A

Pros:

• Excellent squad and command comms.
• team had set plans going into the match and executed them well.
• Amazing use of half-tracks and airheads.

Cons:

• The objective of destroying the nodes was completely lost in the harshness of the map. The terrain makes it difficult to flank and succeed in any attacks without consolidating your team.
• Troopers are tired playing Elsenborn during OPs and FTXs

 

[Feathers.A]

Element Callsign: Baker Squad Axis
Element Leader: Corporal Feathers.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal O'Culien.M
Specialist Parton.D
Specialist Shred.C
Specialist Rousseau.A Retired

Pros:

• Squad Cohesion was beautiful
• Rules were simple enough to follow with reading them before the op started.
• Rules felt balanced.

Cons:

• N/A

 

[Willis.B]

Element Callsign: Axis Charlie Squad
Element Leader: Corporal Willis.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Maca.D
Specialist Miller.L
Private Wallenbeck.S

Pros:

• Squad had a great time. Was a tough fight.

Cons:

• None

 

[Slagg.J]

Element Callsign: Axis Able Recon
Element Leader: CPL.Slagg.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Baktash.L

Pros:

• Excellent in squad comms with solid passage of Intel.
• Command comms were effective, not too overloaded and contributed to the victory.
• Squad leaders reacted very well to the changing situation and commanders orders.

Cons:

• Map was a little axis centric.

 

[Grimshaw.J]

Element Callsign: Love squad, Axis
Element Leader: Specialist Grimshaw.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Macpherson.C
Corporal Sokol.Z
Specialist McDonald.N
Specialist Aly.M
Private Crooke.A



Pros:

• Great communication in the squad.
• Great callouts from the squad
• Overall had a lot of fun
• amazing OPs from SL
• Fantastic use of MGs medic and AT combat play
• loved the concept of the FTX and thought it was well executed

Cons:

• Confused concept at the start, took a little while to get an understanding of the rules.
• Command comms a little cluttered at times.
• AT play needs a little work with the enemy tank dominating at certain phases of the game.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

Korfias.F
This operation's attendance master list needs to be corrected to the appropriate format of '[Full Rank] [LastName.FirstInitial]' before it can be processed by S1 Operations.

Thank you.

 

[Korfias.F]

Korfias.F
This operation's attendance master list needs to be corrected to the appropriate format of '[Full Rank] [LastName.FirstInitial]' before it can be processed by S1 Operations.

Thank you.

Yeah I get a week to do so, the operation just ran last night.

 

[Korfias.F]

Korfias.F
This operation's attendance master list needs to be corrected to the appropriate format of '[Full Rank] [LastName.FirstInitial]' before it can be processed by S1 Operations.

Thank you.

All set.

 

[Sotelo.R]

Element Callsign: Axis Armor "Cheap and Easy"
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Corporal Von Busch.M
Specialist Watters.W

Pros:

• Watters and

Cons: