AAR AAR | Arma Reforger | Operation Lawn Darts (C/1-7 FTX)

[Westcott.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Lawn Darts (C/1-7 FTX)
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1

Date of Combat Mission: 07DEC2025
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0001
Time of Endex (Zulu): 0220

Mission OIC BLUFOR:
Major Lewis.A

Mission Controller(s):
First Sergeant Wiseman.L
Sergeant Brophy.C
Corporal Flint.J

Number of Attendees:
52

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Lewis.A
Captain Hilberg.A
Second Lieutenant Vaughn.V
Second Lieutenant MacMillan.M
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Master Sergeant Willson.JA
Staff Sergeant Borenstein.B
Staff Sergeant Lucander.P
Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Brophy.C
Sergeant McAllen.J
Sergeant Turner.L
Sergeant Hartshock.P
Sergeant Snow.B
Corporal Flint.J
Corporal Lee.H
Corporal Davidson.N
Corporal Mendoza.R
Corporal Law.S
Corporal Couvillion.T
Corporal Dermont.L
Corporal Whitsel.M
Specialist Pearl.F
Specialist Townsend.E
Specialist Keene.R
Specialist Fryer.T
Specialist Bayer.MW
Specialist Nance.T
Specialist Van Auken.P
Specialist Harry.J
Specialist Tanner.N
Specialist Macintosh.S
Specialist Walker.R
Specialist Ford.R
Specialist Lee.P
Specialist Hoover.R
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Cain.T
Specialist Drezelan.O
Specialist Webbel.R
Specialist Kron.D
Specialist DeCann.A
Specialist Woodford.F
Private First Class Anderson.TP
Private First Class Markham.C
Private First Class Colbert.L
Private McGill.A
Recruit Lexon.M



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[MacMillan.M]

Element Callsign: Bandit-6

Element Leader: Second Lieutenant MacMillan.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant MacMillan.M

Pros

• Great way to round out the year
• Strong attendance from the platoon
• Squads performed well, excellent execution of drills and movement
• Squads were able to adapt, felt very fluid moving through the objective.
• GMs were ontop of the teleports after some chutes didnt open.
• Op was engaging and fun.

Cons

• Chute didnt open
• Think we need to test more for exact cadence to prevent collisions, unfortunately think the mod needs us to jump really spread out.
• Ammo constraints due to no backpacks, but company handled this well providing us with resupply.
• Bandit 4 was irradiated

 

[Lewis.A]

Element Callsign: Hitman

Element Leader: Major Lewis.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Hilberg.A
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Law.S

Pros

• TBD

Cons

• TBD

 

[Hartshock.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Bandit 4
Element Leader: Sergeant Hartshock.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Snow.B
Specialist Townsend.E
Specialist Hoover.R
Private First Class Markham.C

Improves:

• To much side conversation, casual chatting, during formations/flight. (Felt more like a Firefight Friday rather then an FTX in regards to banter, chat levels, chat topics, etc.)
• Server load seemed to cause a lot of crashes tonight. Constant crashes created hiccups in knowledge/plan retention.
• Company movement looked like a "Human Wave" most of the Operation vs a plan of movement.
• Parachutes not opening for some troopers despite following instructions. (Mod Issues)
• Gear restriction for this operation made the Weapons Squad way less effective. (Maybe have the 'plane' drop "Gear" with troopers so the weapons squad can arm up with a backpack, ammo, MAAWS Rounds, etc. on landing)

Sustains:

• Great communication within the squad, platoon.
• AIRBORNE! (It was a blast for the ones that the chute opened!)
• Radiation Poisoning for Bandit 4.
• Great brief, plan, idea behind the entire FTX.
• All things considered every trooper had a fun time!

 

[Borenstein.B]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-3

Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Borenstein.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Turner.L
Specialist Harry.J
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Van Auken.P
Specialist Woodford.F
Specialist Webbel.R

Pros

• Fun Concept
• Great comms all around
• solid echoing of orders
• no casualties other than a couple lawn darts
• great cross-loading

Cons

• had an issue where I couldn't reload and had to respawn
• jumping out of the CH-47 mechanism was sketchy
• felt like the movement from DZRP to APs was kind of sketchy and off plan
• lack of backpack on chest makes cross-loading very difficult
• ended up as more of an SBF squad - not a con per se, but wasn't the plan so the fire rates had to be controlled differently and the strategies to draw QRF into the open/closer distance was different; perhaps IHW squad would have excelled more in our two primary positions (overlooking the plant at the beginning, and holding the roof toward the crane QRF at the end)

 

[Vaughn.V]

Element Callsign: Misfit-6​

Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Vaughn.V

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Second Lieutenant Vaughn.V

Pros

• Great communication between all squads on my platoon net
• Everyone [who survived] made it to the DZRP after jumping
• Squads were flexible and able to adapt to change of plans

Cons

• Poor decision-making by me overall
• Failed to properly brief my squad leaders before we rallied with Bandit for the jump
• Failed to assign a 5 to assist me
• Terrible platoon movement to the first OBJ coordinated by me
• Map and compass were upside down when we arrived at the power plant

 

[Smith.DM]

Element Callsign: Bandit-1

Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Smith.DM

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
Sergeant McAllen.J
Corporal Couvillion.T
Corporal Singhal.P (He is missing from main AAR post!)
Specialist Bayer.MW
Specialist Fryer.T
Private McGill.A

Pros

• Great OP to finish off the year
• Good communication between squads
• Good communication with command
• Good inter-squad communication
• Parachute mod was actually okay for what it's worth
• Building Clearing was really fun
• BANDIT-1 POC WINNER LETS GO

Cons

• Some people's parachutes didn't work so I got to watch people splat on the ground
• Initial push on to the OBJ from the DZRP could've used some work. Seems like we pushed through an unnecessary ODA, which led to us being seen / engaged upon.

All around good OP, no real cons.

 

[Nance.T]

Element Callsign: Bandit-3

Element Leader: Specialist Nance.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within the Element:
Specialist Pearl.F
Specialist Keene.R
Specialist Tanner.N
Corporal Lee.H
Specialist Lee.P
Specialist Walker.R

Pros:

• Squad had good communication, worked well together in bounding movements and isolating rooms for CQB.
• Excellent platoon coordination
• Took 0 casualties in clearance of large powerplant building

Cons:

• Had 2 casualties on insert due to lack of familiarity with parachute system
• Company movement went too close to the objective which meant we never reached our ORP and had to scramble to get to our breaching point.
• Most contacts moved outside of rooms during power plant clearance which led to taking most contacts walking down stairs or in the open and uneventful room clearances.

 

[Willson.JA]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-5

Element Leader: Master Sergeant Willson.JA


Pros

• Great way to round out the year by getting back into what Charlie does.
• Strong attendance from the platoon, which was good to see, and shows great promise for next year.
• Squads performed well, with excellent execution of drills and movement throughout the FTX.
• Squads adapted and moved through the objective very fluidly and with precision.
• GMs were on top of the teleports after some chutes didn't open, allowing company movement to continue without being halted for longer than necessary.
• Op was engaging and fun, and was very well thought out.
• CQC was a wild time inside the nuclear plant.

Cons

• Think we need to test more for exact cadence to prevent collisions, unfortunately think the mod needs us to jump really spread out.
• Ammo constraints due to no backpacks, but the company handled this well by providing resupply.
• Bandit 4 was irradiated

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Kenton.W]

S1 Operations Processed.