AAR Arma Reforger | Operation Iron Resolve | Phase 3

[Bishop.B]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Iron Resolve: Phase 3
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable):
Number within campaign: 3/3
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Tac 2
Date of Combat Mission: 01JUN25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0200
Mission OIC: Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
Mission Controller: Master Sergeant Wiseman.L, Sergeant First Class Geki.T, Private First Class Bishop.B

Number of Attendees:

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

1. First Lieutenant Grgich.A
2. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ratliff.B
3. Master Sergeant Westcott.R
4. Master Sergeant Wiseman.L
5. Sergeant First Class Geki.T
6. Staff Sergeant Blake.H
7. Staff Sergeant Holiday.T
8. Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
9. Sergeant Burton.P
10. Sergeant Turner.L
11. Sergeant Winters.R
12. Corporal Corbin.R
13. Corporal Spice.M
14. Corporal York.A
15. Specialist Blade.B
16. Specialist Delgado.C
17. Specialist Easy.G
18. Specialist Lee.H
19. Specialist Mendoza.R
20. Specialist Molitor.K
21. Specialist Murdock.T
22. Specialist Randolph.R
23. Specialist Snow.B
24. Private First Class Atlas.M
25. Private First Class Bishop.B
26. Private First Class Bouchard.Z
27. Private First Class Drezelan.O
28. Private First Class Flint.J
29. Private First Class Giordano.C
30. Private First Class Linder.J
31. Private First Class McGahan.L
32. Private First Class Moore.R
33. Private First Class Morris.T
34. Private First Class Russell.JG
35. Private First Class Sosa.C
36. Private First Class Thomas.K
37. Private First Class Truppo.C
38. Private First Class Valiante.M
39. Private First Class Vara.J
40. Private First Class Vlade.I
41. Private First Class Walmsley.M
42. Private Cartel.D
43. Private Hartshock.P
44. Private Keene.R
45. Private Levi.A
46. Private Nance.T
47. Private Wilson.R
48. Recruit Henderson.JA

Not Eligible:
Recruit Utters.M

ELOA:
Specialist Crimzon.E

RET:
Corporal Houston.T

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Hitman - 6 / Bandit - 6
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
First Lieutenant Grgich.A


Pros:

Good initiative on SL to work towards my goals as OIC.

Good level of fights with a hard but fair enemy.

Coordination of support elements tasking and use sky rocketed with the addition of Bandit - 5, that could focus on calls for fire and BDA's.

i liked the exiting rocket runs from the enemy MI8 rocket hip, but with that came the realization from me and 6R, that when enemy air is present in AO's, then we need to plan and dedicate a unit that is tasked with hunting helicopters with stinger and/or gun platforms.


Cons:

Limited amount of platoon and company staff.

Medical team with medical vehicle is needed for all Reforger operations and i strongly recommend that we add it as a SOP.

Enemy mortar fire was too overwhelming and slowed down phase 3 by at least 30 min, as medical had to drive and heal the whole field and resulted in more then 10 mass casualty incidents on the airfield assaults, with a high degree of deaths and didn't feel like fun game play.

Phase 1 OIC briefing could have used a better focus on what were important to know for the OIC and not a small text of Key terrain.

When running continues operation please call the Key terrain different names over the Phases, as 10 series 20 series 30 series and so on, so for the first phase KT 11, 12, 13 so on and for second phase 21, 22, 23 so on, as its hard to do briefings where you do continues and have to move slide between the phases.

 

[Truppo.C]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit - 2
Element Leader: PFC.Truppo.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

SPC.Randolph.R
PFC.Bouchard.Z
PFC.Vlade.I
PFC.Vara.J
PFC.Moore.R
PFC.Linder.J

Pros: Squad was very cohesive consisting of two small fireteams almost entirely of 7 Cav members from 3/C/1-7 and worked well together, completing objectives quickly and adapting well to high pressure from enemy forces.

Platoon command adapted well during this phase to extended pressure while performing multiple difficult taskings at one time and juggling radios.

Cons: There were a lot of delays due to overuse of enemy mortar fire on danger close positions for the enemy, leaving us under mortar fire while taking close enemy contact less than 75m away, this
caused the vast majority of our casualties.

Bandit 2 felt underutilized as a primary infantry element for close engagement purposes, partly due to delays in logistics and the capturing of KT05 taking an extended period of time.

 

[Holiday.T]

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

Element Callsign: Odin-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Crimzon.E


Pros:


Cons:
Mortar definitely didn't feel fully utilized
Lack of BDAs left us in the dark on effect of some missions

 

[Westcott.R]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-5
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Westcott.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal York.A
Houston.T RET


Pros:

• 3-man rolling communications hub/Demo team and had a TON of fun doing a LOT of work
• Good comms with Buffalo, Odin, and Helios.
• Demo'd 6x OPFOR vehicles, 1x downed Buffalo, and 5-6 mortar tubes
• Lots of tasking for Odin (preplanned TRPs and CFFs) and Buffalo (ISR, CAS, inserts).
• Pre-planned LZs worked a treat for Buffalo.

Cons:

• BDA's to Odin weren't always available to be passed. A lot of our CFFs were on pre-planned targets and I called them in where I was hearing OPFOR IDF firing from. Odin was super effective though on the few BDA's I could pass. They had to put 60-70 rounds down range.
• Even with 3x people on 2 radios each we were becoming task saturated at times with comms.
• The RU Mi-8 just has too many rockets and was overused by GM IMO. It pinned 2 squads down for 30 mins and killed another squad entirely.
• OPFOR arty was a bit much.

 

[Cartel.D]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1

Element Leader:Private Cartel.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
GoDzZ_UtTeRzZ12 - Recruit
Private First Class Flint.J
Private Cartel.D

Pros

• Fun hanging out and shooting the shit with the buffalo crew.
• Was hella Fun event!
• strong A2G communication
• Strong airstrike communication

Cons

 

[Corbin.R]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-1
Element Leader: Corporal Corbin.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ratliff.B
Corporal Corbin.R
Corporal Spice.M
Specialist Murdock.T
Specialist Easy.G
Private First Class McGahan.L
Private First Class Sosa.C


Pros:

• Had a blast, good crew to play with. Everyone enjoyed themselves!
• Even though I missed a good chunk of the briefing, we did very well.
• Airfield assault was spectacular and lots of fun.
• ACE Medical is hit or miss but it is nice to need to fight to keep people alive.

Cons:

• Was in and out of the briefing as I wasn't slotted for SL originally, didn't catch most of the plan.
• Chaotic & disorganized operation, at least at the beginning.

 

[Giordano.C]

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

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Element callsign: Bandit - 3
Element Leader: PFC.Giordano.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Elements:
SPC.Lee.H
PFC.Flint.J
SPC.Snow.B
PVT.Hartshock.P
RCT.Henderson.JA

Pros:
-A great ending to a gauntlet of an operations
-Once again Bandit - 3s ability to adapt throughout the operation.
-PVT.Hartshock.P 's CLS skills to save and assist Bandit-4s mass cas
-PFC.Flint.J's red air snipe with a LAW
-SPC.Lee.H, SPC.Snow.B , & RCT.Henderson.JA being absolute dogs to fight through the battering of enemy mortars.

Cons:
-Ran into an issue with ghost bleeds
-Enemy mortars seemed a little "too" effective on their own objectives
-Communications inside our squad began to break down towards the end
-Formations

 

[Houser.J]

S1 Locked.

 

[Houser.J]

S1 Operations Processed.

 

[Blake.H]

S3 Processed