AAR Bravo Troop Joint FTX | Operation Iron Council | 28FEB26 2200Z

[Wiseman.L]

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



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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Iron Council (Bravo Troop FTX)
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable):
Number within campaign:
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Tactical Realism GM

Date of Combat Mission: 28FEB26
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu):2200z
Time of Mission ENDEX(Zulu): 2359z

Mission OIC: Major Rodahl.S

Mission Controller(s): Major Rodahl.S , First Sergeant Wiseman.L

Number of Attendees: 47

7th Cavalry Members:
Colonel Beiter.A
Lieutenant Colonel Robbi.J
Major Rodahl.S
First Lieutenant Corbin.R
Second Lieutenant Masnec.G
Second Lieutenant Mobius.T
First Sergeant Wiseman.L
Sergeant First Class Lucander.P
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Fox.R
Staff Sergeant Jones.RH
Staff Sergeant McAllen.J
Sergeant Brophy.C
Sergeant Carr.W
Sergeant Giordano.C
Corporal Howe.T
Corporal Sorrel.M
Corporal Grey.W
Corporal Macintosh.S
Corporal DeCann.A
Corporal Reddick.A
Corporal Clegg.M
Specialist Brideau.J
Specialist Woodford.F
Specialist Madlock.B
Specialist Clay.L
Specialist Bosley.B
Specialist Formola.J
Specialist Harrel.R
Specialist Vara.J
Specialist Thoren.J
Specialist Zaren.T
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Ross.S
Specialist Richardson.JD
Specialist Bowman.J
Specialist Jonez.M
Private First Class Baggett.H
Private First Class Auguste.B
Private First Class Coner.J
Private Cleveland.T
Private OConnell.R
Private Weather.J
Private Leon.J
Private Dalton.J
Private Benjamin.N
Private Stark.A
Master Sergeant Zimm.L (retired)

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[Lucander.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Viking - 5
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Lucander.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant First Class Lucander.P


Pros:

• Quick assault on construction yard.
• Good hold of Construction yard on phase 5's against the Quick React Force.

Cons:

• Stressed movement for the first part of the FTX. Please don't push platoons speed over tactical movement.
• Not fun for Viking platoon.
• Limited manpower.
• Spacing could be better.
• Counter orders at phase 3 and 4, that made Viking 1 sit on a hill for almost 30 minutes, getting shot at, not being allowed to fire back.
• Disruptive calls for fire, that could have been called earlier, hindering Viking platoons movement / assaults.
• More use of area of responsibility.

 

[Zimm.L]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-7
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Zimm.L
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Master Sergeant Zimm.L
Private Weather.J

Pros:

• Low amount of causalities, good because you guys weren't getting shoot (not saying this a bad thing or a good thing)
• Had CLS on 63.0

Cons:

• low amount of causalities, bad because medical doesn't get to do there thing then (not saying this a bad thing or a good thing)
• low numbers in Viking Platoon
• the way medical was run was hard since Bravo and Charlie FTX overlapped so we had to run to Charlie's before the end of Bravo's and switch groups
• Might have wanted to run Medics as a Helios unit instead so we would could cover the company and split between platoons as needed, instead of the specific platoon medics

 

[Clay.L]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Pioneer - 1
Element Leader: SPC.Clay.L
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Bosley.B
SPC.Formola.J
SPC.Harrel.R
PVT.Leon.J
CPL.Sorrel.M
CPL.Grey.W


Pros:

• Good SBF Positions and Operating SBF
• Good Communications
• Good Movement to OBJs and SBF Positions

Cons:

• Had our SBF plan changed last minute with not enough supplies
• Had troopers disregarding orders
• Had a few Arma Moments and a few hickups

 

[Reddick.A]

Element Callsign: Viking - 1
Element Leader:Corporal Reddick.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Bowman.J
Private OConnell.R
Specialist Thoren.J
Specialist Zaren.T
Specialist Xinos.T


Pros:

• Squad had fun
• No black tags in the squad

Cons:

• Spacing could use work
• Low manpower
• Phase 4 was somewhat messy; the recall caused confusion among the troopers and myself

 

[Corbin.R]

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

Element Callsign: Pioneer-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Corbin.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Corbin.R

Pros:

• Had a lot of fun!
• We reacted very well to requests to shift from our original plan and adapted to many different complex situations well. The SLs followed FRAGOs when I issued them.
• CQB was done well from what I saw!
• Really enjoyed having this cooridinated company FTX and I would like to see more of this in future or doing parrallel FTXs if we have the numbers. I think it made it very dynamic for the pilots supporting us both and for the medical/combat support teams.
• Light & noise discipline was followed to the T by Pioneer Platoon! Although we had some support assets who came through with lasers on not actively marking targets.

Cons:

• A lot of rushed movement due to the timeline, which created a lot of stress in moving across open areas without proper danger area movements.
• Miscommunication or something occurred, which resulted in Helios digging down the encampment as we were about to start clearing through it.
• Several disconnects.
• Low manpower overall in the operation.
• Radio etiquette/readbacks should be worked on for all of us, including myself.

 

[DeCann.A]

Element callsign: Raider-1
Element leader:CPL.DeCann.A
7th cavalry personnel within element:
SPC.Madlock.B

Pros

• Raider and chaos communication felt like it was working at the highest level of skill it ever has.
• The communication between raider pic and co-pilot/gunner was on point.
• Raider was able to make quick and easy movements to BP's and new positions with in a matter of a minute while communicating in where to go and stable hover to conduct fire missions.
• Chaos handled situations perfectly with calling out contacts for CAS missions and following what information Raider was giving for troops on the ground.

Cons

• No cons what so ever.

Notes

• Raider one was able to stay in the air nearly the entire operation between bravo and charlie company's ftx even taking damage to the main rotor 2 separate times and staying on station despite the damage for atleast an additional 5 minutes before returning to base for repairs and rearming to then head back into the fight to conduct CAS missions and ISR tasking coming from chaos.

 

[McAllen.J]

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

Element Callsign: Pioneer-7



Element Leader: Staff Sergeant McAllen.J



7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:







Pros:

• Effective use of security when crossing different ODA's LDA's
• Low casualties
• My buffalo's chalk dismounted correctly from what I saw

Cons:

• The numbers issue: the reason we separate FTX's is so we can have more than company and troop need to fill the roles of the squad to fulfill the commander's intent and vision for the FTX while also completing the training goals
• Briefing went on way too long and the time before the chalk's lifted took a while which resulted in us taking longer for our objectives
• Felt like we were constantly "Expediting" even though we had a very congested town to move through and hard clear, it would've been beneficial to either have a more open objective to give more free form movement and or smaller quick raids to maximize the amount of air assaults
• The medical net isn't being utilized or there was a lack of experienced CLS's to run the role and the net itself. In situations where there are multiple -7's, make sure we use an Auxiliary net to reduce congestion

 

[Brophy.C]

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

Element Callsign: Pioneer-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Brophy.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Clegg.M
Specialist Brideau.J
Specialist Woodford.F
Private Dalton.J
Private First Class Baggett.H
Private Cleveland.T

Pros:

• Good communication between fire teams for coordination of movement and contacts.
• Good OPORD Plan.
• The FRAGOs and chaos were enjoyable.
• Plenty of enemy contacts.
• Good coordination between sections in game and over comms.
• Coordination of efforts within the platoon continues to improve.

Cons:

• Encampment disappeared.
• large areas to cover and we were rushed through obstacles etc
• More work on spacing, and use of other formations.

 

[Beiter.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Godfather-6
Element Leader: Colonel Beiter.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Colonel Beiter.A
Lieutenant Colonel Robbi.J

Pros:

• Fantastic operation all around!
• The coms were beautiful between everyone.
• From the birds-eye view, the troops moved well, and coordination between everyone was stellar.
• The pilots today were OUTSTANDING, hands down one of the best operations we were able to witness.

Cons:

• For some reason, the radio range was not working correctly, so we had to improvise.
• At the exfil of Charlie Company, the aircraft were on deck for way longer than needed.

 

[Fox.R]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo flight
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Richard 'Sherlock' Fox
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Matt Jonez
Specialist Scott Macintosh
Specialist Joshua Del Richardson
Specialist Steven Ross
Private First Class Billy Auguste
Private First Class Jesse Coner
Private Nick Benjamin
Private Alan Stark

Pros:

• A well-designed and competently executed op from start to finish.
• Great passenger discipline, resulting in minimum pilot distraction and perfect mounts and dismounts.
• Comms with Godfather (Beiter.A), and comms in general, were on point.
• Zeus support was provided promptly when required.

Cons:

• Radio range issues caused Buffalo elements to lose contact with each other on several occasions.
• More advanced formation maneuvers, such as synchronised landings, still need more work.

 

[Mobius.T]

Element Callsign: Chaos-1
Element Leader: CPL.Mobius.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• All 12 stages of CAS was put in practice. Good Practical for both Chaos-1 and Raider-1
• High level of discipline and swift responses from both Raider-1 and Sparrow-1
• Fantastic performance from Bravo Troops, despite Chaos-1 deviating from Warhorse-6's Plan (Was late to briefing due to work)
• No Air to Ground Blue-on-Blue Recorded.

Cons:

• Radio range issues caused Chaos-1 to lose communication between Raider-1 and Chaos-1 during the Situation Update. This caused chains of events that led to Chaos-1 arriving late on Viking-1's position.
• Rendering distance bottlenecked Raider-1 from being able to accurately identify targets.

 

[Masnec.G]

Element Callsign: Viking - 6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Masnec.G
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Masnec.G


Pros:

• Quick assault on construction yard.
• Good hold of Construction yard on phase 5's against the Quick React Force.
• Good movement and reaction from Viking-1 through the FTX

Cons:

• Stressed movement for the first part of the FTX. Had to expedite our movement which made us disregard several potentially dangerous situations
• Not fun for Viking platoon overall.
• Limited manpower.
• Spacing could be better.
• Counter orders at phase 3 and 4, that made Viking 1 sit on a hill for almost 30 minutes, getting shot at, not being allowed to fire back.
• Disruptive calls for fire, that could have been called earlier, hindering Viking platoons movement / assaults.
• More use of area of responsibility.
• A little bit slow reaction from Raider-1 whcih made assault slower which in turn slowed us in the assault on AO.

 

[Carr.W]

Element callsign: PIONEER-3
Element leader: Sergeant Carr.W
7th cavalry personnel within element:
Sergeant Giordano.C
Corporal Howe.T
Specialist Vara.J


Pros

• Excellent rear guard discipline during movement to substation.
• Excellent movement through cover and concealment
• Excellent CQB house clearing and communication
• Excellent alpha / bravo squad movement and communication.
• Bold action by a small and highly capable unit - 4 troopers fought like 9.
• Fun as hell.

Cons

• Improve comms awareness of calls from higher
• Improve platoon ODA crossings / route / rushing to OBJ at the cost of protection
• Overambitious series of objectives for the time available made for rushing and chaos on final objective including blue one blue and muddled AOs.
• No dedicated sucurity / isolation element - we were lucky ENY QRF did not arrive over western AA bridge sooner. Feels like our platoon understanding of the collective task Raid needs more work, dedicated tasking to security element.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

Rodahl.S Wiseman.L please complete AAR attendance list. Thank you.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Angels.N]

S1 Operations Processed / Milpacs Updated

45 Troopers eligible
1x Retired
1x Under NFA