AAR Arma Reforger | Firefight Friday (May) | Firefight Friday 016

[Hudson.B]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Firefight Friday 016
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Firefight Friday (May)
Number within campaign: 4
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Tac 2
Date of Combat Mission: 23MAY25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200
Mission OIC: Major Grgich.A
Mission Controller: Lieutenant Colonel Beiter.A, Specialist Hudson.B

Number of Attendees: 54

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action: (WIP List)

1. Lieutenant Colonel Beiter.A
2. Major Grgich.A
3. Captain Rodahl.S
4. Master Sergeant Wiseman.L
5. Sergeant First Class Willson.JA
6. Staff Sergeant Blake.H
7. Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
8. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Peterson.L
9. Sergeant Winters.R
10. Corporal Jones.RH
11. Corporal Villmarsson.L
12. Corporal York.A
13. Specialist Banks.M
14. Specialist Bull.T
15. Specialist Carr.W
16. Specialist Casey.W
17. Specialist Easy.G
18. Specialist Holman.R
19. Specialist Hudson.B
20. Specialist Mack.A
21. Specialist Mendoza.R
22. Specialist Molitor.K
23. Specialist Murdock.T
24. Specialist Rossi.C
25. Specialist Woodford.F
26. Private First Class Adler.L
27. Private First Class Atlas.M
28. Private First Class Bishop.B
29. Private First Class Bosley.B
30. Private First Class Dolby.W
31. Private First Class Flint.J
32. Private First Class Giordano.C
33. Private First Class Lewis.DK
34. Private First Class Linder.J
35. Private First Class Mors.V
36. Private First Class Ruiz.E
37. Private First Class Russell.JG
38. Private First Class Sandoval.M
39. Private First Class Sayers.L
40. Private First Class Van Auken.P
41. Private First Class Vandal.T
42. Private First Class Vara.J
43. Private First Class Vlade.I
44. Private First Class Walmsley.M
45. Private Cartel.D
46. Private Harrel.R
47. Private Hartshock.P
48. Private Keene.R
49. Private Kron.D
50. Private Mendes.A
51. Private Nance.T
52. Private Swiger.X
53. Recruit King.MJ
54. Recruit Wilson.R

Ineligible:
Corporal Houston.T (RET)
Private First Class Bittrich.D (ELOA)

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Sierra - 1 / Viking - 5
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
Private First Class Mors.V
Private First Class Vlade.I
Private First Class Bittrich.D (ELOA)
Private Keene.R

Pros:
Good time providing SBF
Sierra's was in high spirits

Cons:
Issue with ammo glitch, Sierra - 2 rearming 1000 rounds for the main gun, some how, then locking it up, so main gun could not shoot.
No Crew loadout to select.
No Roll save that persists through death.
Load-out save doesn't persists through death.

 

[Molitor.K]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Specialist Molitor.K

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal York.A
Specialist Banks.M
Specialist Easy.G
Specialist Mack.A
Specialist Mendoza.R
Private First Class Atlas.M
Private Nance.T
Private Swiger.X

Retired:
Corporal Houston.T

Pros:

• Pyramid was super cool.
• 3x good time overall.
• 3x Teamwork was phenomenal.

Cons:

• Viking should be an attachment.
• 3x Excessive Blue on Blue incidents.
• Step off was pretty unorganized. S3, at a minimum, should provide a plan to organize and stage elements in a way that does not stack everyone within comms range. Multiple arsenals, space, spread out vehicles, etc.
• Vehicle inclusion needs to be adjusted for Charlie encounters. Standard armament is a LAW which is not an AT4. Our capability to deal with vehicles is pretty reduced, need vehicle OPFOR adjusted accordingly.

 

[Blake.H]

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

Element Callsign: Helios-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Blake.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Winters.R
Private First Class Dolby.W
Private First Class Van Auken.P
Private First Class Sandoval.M

Pros:

• Keep on Truckin'
• We Had fun
• FTL commanded the squad well in my absence.
• LRP's were utilized when deployed
• Good react to ambush and subsequent engagement of said ambush
• Coms seemed pretty good.
• New recruit

Cons:

• We could have been used in a couple of situations for LRPs
• Server was very unstable on mission start.
• Hearing anything was an issue at times due to game sounds and/or voice.

 

[King.MJ]

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

Element Callsign: Chaos-1
Element Leader: RCT King.MJ

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:
- Was good to get back into controlling and get some solid work in.

- Got 3 solid RW CAS runs in, enabling MISFIT to maneuver on their scheme of movement.

- Good ISR on targets, was able to give MISFIT some additional info to help their planning.

Cons:
- Was not aware of game plan and mission prior to initial load in, made it more difficult to figure out which unit to attach to, where to plan strikes, and how to best employ assets.

- Hate that we lost a bird. Still not sure what happened, but maybe could've been safer with the Sparrow and kept him in the air longer.

 

[Rodahl.S]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-6
Element Leader: Captain Rodahl.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Villmarsson.L

Pros:

• Great bounding from both Fireteams and squads
• Fun from all of the Viking Troopers
  • They enjoyed the additional tasks, screening from Bandit.
• GREAT Squad level briefings upon receiving fragmentary orders.
• Really intense close quarters combat encounters.
• Leadership was on point from a Squad level.
• Shoutout to Mendes and Sayers for maintaining the Squad cohesion.
• No black tags.
• Very attentive Squads.
• Most of the Cons are nit-picky and not really a big deal.
• Hopefully there can be a continuation done through Game master at a later date.
• Sierras performed really well operating in wings.

Cons:

• Backblasts not cleared outside of emergencies. Troopers need to work on that.
• Rogue unit outside of C2, Stalker*
• Land Nav needs work.
• 3Ds need improvement so the entire platoon can get guns on target.
• Mods were Janky for PS5, but they work.
  • Vehicle Guns would randomly stop working
    • Unsure of reason'
  • Role Selection would sometimes display the incorrect role
    • You need to actually click the role to get the name displayed. (this might not be fixable)
  • Faction Glitches with the arsenal. A respawn would do the trick.
• Radios
  • Sometimes they just plain would not work.
  • Often difficult to know who is speaking on what net as there is a max display limit.
• Lost opportunities of combined arms by sending only 1 platoon per 1 Objective apart from the first.

 

[Sayers.L]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Private First Class Sayers.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Casey.W
Corporal Marcus.J
Sergeant Wagner.D
Private First Class Mendes.A

Pros: Good radio communications, great situational awareness, great team work and buddy teaming, SL had great leadership and land NAV

Cons: SL needs to work on hesitation while on the radio, SL needs to work on confidence and decision making while in combat.

 

[Bishop.B]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1 / BUFFALO-2
Element Leader:
BUFFALO-1: Private First Class Bishop.B
BUFFALO-2: Private Cartel.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Holman.R
Private First Class Bishop.B
Private Cartel.D

Pros:

• Mods were enjoyed by the entire flight.

Cons:

• Disconnects caused crash and ground troops were left without transport. After single failed request while reconnecting, forces turned to using ground vehicles and not calling for air transport altogether.
• Lack of work and too many transport helos. Combined crews for a while and then pivoted to a UH-1H in order to be able to transport supplies and troops as necessary. The troop transport UH-60 only carries 8 supplies total.
• Location of objectives too close to MOB for BUFFALO to be required or properly utilized.

 

[Houser.J]

S1 Locked.

 

[Murdock.T]

S1 Operations Processed.

 

[Blake.H]

ODI Processed