AAR ArmA Reforger | Halloween Special | Operation Westcott Wrangler

[Beiter.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Westcott Wrangler
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): 2025 Halloween Event
Number within campaign: 1
Game: ArmA Reforger
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 25OCT25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300Z
Mission OIC: Captain Hilberg.A
Mission Controller(s): Colonel Beiter.A / Master Sergeant Westcott.R / Specialist Van Auken.P

Number of Attendees: 55

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:

1. Major General Tharen.R
2. Colonel Beiter.A
3. Captain Davis.D
4. Captain Hilberg.A
5. Captain Rodahl.S
6. Second Lieutenant Bishop.B
7. Second Lieutenant MacMillan.M
8. Second Lieutenant Vaughn.V
9. First Sergeant Wiseman.L
10. Master Sergeant Westcott.R
11. Master Sergeant Willson.JA
12. Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
13. Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
14. Sergeant Apollo.R
15. Sergeant Hartshock.P
16. Sergeant Marston.C
17. Sergeant McAllen.J
18. Sergeant Turner.L
19. Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
20. Corporal Brophy.C
21. Corporal Crimzon.E
22. Corporal Easy.G
23. Corporal Flint.J
24. Corporal Giordano.C
25. Corporal Marcus.J
26. Corporal McGahan.L
27. Corporal Mendoza.R
28. Corporal Mobius.T
29. Corporal Russell.JG
30. Corporal Searle.I
31. Specialist Brown.JR
32. Specialist Cooper.Z
33. Specialist Ford.R
34. Specialist Fryer.T
35. Specialist Harry.J
36. Specialist Kenton.W
37. Specialist Keene.R
38. Specialist Macintosh.S
39. Specialist Reddick.A
40. Specialist Ross.S
41. Specialist Townsend.E
42. Specialist Van Auken.P
43. Specialist Webbel.R
44. Specialist Yota.G
45. Private First Class Markham.C
46. Private First Class Adams.T
47. Private First Class Colbert.L
48. Specialist Harrel.R
49. Private First Class Johnsen.M
50. Private First Class Pearl.F
51. Private First Class Von Knispel.K
52. Private First Class Walker.TR
53. Private First Class Woods.F
54. Private Clay.L
55. Private Jonez.M

If your name is not listed, please first ensure your element lead posted their AAR response and included your name in their response. If your name is not listed by your element lead please contact them. If your name is listed in the AAR response, but not the master AAR list, please contact whomever posted this AAR.

 

[Johnsen.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Dagger-7
Element Leader: PFC.Johnsen.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: PFC.Pearl.F

Pros:
Had fun
Used alot of "Quick-Thinking"

Cons:
Would've liked to have ACE Medical as some patients we weren't able to assist with. (Heavy bleeds not fixable)
Overboard with AI's causing extreme MASCAS and/or FPS drop
Secondary Objective (Church) was chaotic.

 

[Smith.DM]

Element Callsign: Dagger-2
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Easy.G
Specialist Kenton.W
Staff Sergeant Lucander
Specialist Reddick.A
Specialist Harry.J
Corporal Searle.J
Corporal Mobius.T
Specialist Ford.R
Coporal McGahan.L
Sergeant Turner.L
Specialist Cooper.Z (He is missing from AAR post)
Corporal Brophy.C
Specialist Kenton.W


Pros:

• Build up / suspense was awesome
• Relatively quick step off
• Plenty of things to shoot
• Inter-squad communication was good
• Platoon wide comms on the river were spotty at first, but after initial contact things picked up and it was good
• T-Rex was crazy
• We found Wescott.

Cons:

• Church was chaotic, but plenty of things to shoot
• Blue on blue was pretty prevalent (to be expected)

(Not many cons overall)

 

[Willson.JA]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Dagger-5
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Willson.JA


Pros:

• The ambiance was at its peak for this operation.
• The GMs did a great job of keeping the operation engaging and fun the entire night.
• Having a T. rex coming down the river on our small formation made for some fantastic entertainment and a memory that will live on with the guys who experienced it.
• Hands down one of the best Halloween operations that we have done, and an excellent start for Reforger.
• Squads got formed up quickly, and SLs were quick to get the briefing from Dagger-6

Cons:

• Blue on Blue happened, but was to be expected due to the conditions.
• Trying to fly a CH-47 in the dark and when it is raining, but we got it worked out.

 

[Davis.D]

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

Element Callsign: Dagger-1
Element Leader: Captain Davis.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Bishop.B
Sergeant McAllen.J
Sergeant Apollo.R
Sergeant Hartshock.P
Corporal Crimzon.E
Corporal Russell.JG
Specialist Keene.R
Specialist Harrel.R
Private First Class Colbert.L
Private First Class Markham.C
Private Clay.L


Pros:

• The build up was great, very suspenseful and the ambiance of brushes moving and screaming had some troopers on "edge"
• Mass amount of contacts to engage
• Platoon Communication wasn't an issue nor was movement phase communication.
• The wide variety of contact from zombies, Spider Babies, even a T-Rex.
• The church was a nice touch on respawn's and a "seperate mission"
• We were able to push from the church and establish new plt comms
• found MSG.Westcott

Cons:

• Putting an entire magazine into a zombie and it still moving
• at times troopers would get "loosy goosy" with comms and would remind about comm's brevity
• Troopers after would take this as a "meme operation".
• The mass amount of overwhelming forces at the church cause a lot of blue on blue once opfor intermingled in our lines
• break contact lead us the wrong way more than once
• flying the chinook in pitch black, in the rain made it difficult to locate blufor and crashed main rotor on exfil

 

[Macintosh.S]

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

Element Callsign: Dagger-4
Element Leader: Specialist Macintosh.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major General Tharen.R
Captain Rodahl.S
Sergeant Marston.C
Corporal Mendoza.R
Specialist Ross.S
Private First Class Von Knispel.K
Private First Class Walker.TR
Private First Class Woods.F

Pros

• Reaction Times were good from the start
• Great movement through terrible terrain (the river)
• Comms and sectors were watched carefully from the beginning
• Reinsert group spent a lot of ammo

Cons

• Reaction times and callouts started slipping towards the middle to end
• Spacing was an issue the whole time, we kept going back and forth from having good to bad spacing constantly.
• Callouts on contact from the rear at times were nonexistent
• Reinsert group could have spent more time defending, they spent a lot of time grouping people together
• Several people felt like the plan for respawns didn't work
• radio comms for 2nd wave wasn't good/consistent

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Angels.N]

S1 Operations Processed / Milpacs Updated