FTX AAR Arma Reforger | Bravo Troop FTX: Operation Finish Line

[Molitor.K]

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

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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Finish Line
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Training Server 2

Date of Combat Mission: 28SEP25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z

Mission OIC: Captain Rodahl.S

Mission Controller(s): First Sergeant Molitor.K, Captain Hilberg.A

Number of Attendees: 37

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Captain Hilberg.A
Captain Rodahl.S
Second Lieutenant Albright.J
Second Lieutenant Corbin.R
First Sergeant Couvillion.T
First Sergeant Molitor.K
First Sergeant Wiseman.L
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
Sergeant Carr.W
Sergeant McAllen.J
Sergeant Winters.R
Corporal Artale.A
Corporal Brophy.C
Corporal Grey.W
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Faldt.M
Specialist Giordano.C
Specialist Keene.R
Specialist Linder.J
Specialist Mendoza.R
Specialist Reddick.A
Specialist Thomas.K
Specialist Valiante.M
Specialist Van.J
Specialist Webbel.R
Specialist Woodford.F
Specialist Yota.G
Private First Class Bowman.J
Private First Class Fryer.T
Private First Class Garrick.S
Private First Class Harrel.R
Private First Class Johnsen.M
Private Anderson.TP
Private Bolte.D
Private Bourassa.M

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Viking - 1

Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Couvillion.T
Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
Specialist Reddick.A
Specialist Facklam.E
Private First Class Johnsen.M
Private First Class Bowman.J
Private First Class Garrick.S
Private Bolte.D
Private Anderson.TP


Pros:

• Good Call outs with 3 D's.
• Good formations with spacing.
• Good squad attendance.

Cons:

• improve Fire rates call outs.
• Work on Anti tank procedures.
• Need to work more on CQC / CQB.
• Leadership need to work on Convoys and marking Dismount points, so we don't get separation of the fire teams.
• We as a company need to improve on mount marking.
• improve coordination with support elements, moving in line on mechanized assaults.

 

[McAllen.J]

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

Element Callsign: Helios-1

Element Leader: Sergeant McAllen.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Specialist Webbel.R
Specialist Yota.G
Specialist Van.J
Corporal Rozkhov.P

Pros

• Enjoyed taking out the mines
• The Convoy staging seemed quick and efficient
• We liked building the CP
• We got to do some reinserts

Cons

• I believe a longer movement phase with more turns and performing herringbone halts would've been beneficial
• We didn't get a lot of contact at the CP
• Lack of actual Helios tasking (Demo and or reinsertions)

Notes: I think it would be a good idea to either have a Zeus per AO so that we can have one monitoring Helios's stuff and one for Viking. We could also have Section Leads and or others to assist in adding more things for our platoons.

 

[Carr.W]

Element Callsign: VIKING-2

Element Leader: Sergeant Carr.W

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Corbin.R
Private First Class Harrel.R
Private Anderson.TP
Specialist Mendoza.R
Specialist Giordano.C
Corporal Brophy.C
Staff Sergeant Blake.H
Specialist Linder.J
Specialist Valiante.M

Pros:

• Excellent fireteam work - all troopers performed at a high level
• FTLs led well, good initiative, good skills demonstrated
• Excellent bounding movements / mutual support / maneuver
• Excellent platoon medic support

Cons:

• Not enough map markers for coordination
• Helpers were not slotted deliberately beforehand
• Updated Opord slides did not show up on Opord page, so difficult to reference during op
• Convoy felt a bit sloppy in terms of herringbones, etc
• More explicit briefing instructions on the event page would be helpful - what time briefing, what discord channel, etc.

 

[Keene.R]

Element Callsign: BANSHEE-1

Element Leader: Specialist Keene.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Mobius.T
First Sergeant Wiseman.L
Specialist Woodford.F


Pros:

• Great communication amongst Banshee elements
• Good coordinated movement to contact with bounding
• Broke contact after initial contact, regrouped, and recovered

Cons:

• Lack of map markers for initial convoy led to early confusion, but we recovered
• Got ahead of infantry at one point, resulted in multiple Banshees getting hit with RPGs

 

[Albright.J]

Element Callsign: VIKING-7

Element Leader: 2LT.Albright.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Artale.A
PFC.Fryer.T

Pros:

• Good coms with command
• Good security was provided whenever idle by everyone we observed
• Good concept for an FTX, where the goal is to train and practise in regards to the training plan

Cons:

• Not a lot to do (note: Me and CPL.Artale ahd to leave after about 1,5h)
• Initial confusion on how -7 is placed in the covy, but it got resolved quickly
• Not a huge fan of having to split up, leaving one medic without buddy aid support.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Murdock.T]

S1 Operations Processed.