AAR Arma Reforger | Firefight Friday (MAR) | FF045

[Fryer.T]

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

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Name of Combat Mission: : Firefight Friday 45
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Blackout Protocol
Number within campaign: 1/4
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: TAC1 - GM

Date of Combat Mission: 06MAR26
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Time of Mission ENDEX(Zulu): 0100z

Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H

Mission Controller(s): Corporal Fryer.T, Specialist Madlock.B, Sergeant Flint.J

Number of Attendees: 28

7th Cavalry Members Who Achieved Operational Credit:
Lieutenant General Tharen.R
Colonel Beiter.A
Lieutenant Colonel Robbi.J
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
First Sergeant Wiseman.L
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant First Class Lucander.P
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Staff Sergeant Taylor.C
Sergeant Mendoza.R
Sergeant Mack.A
Sergeant Giordano.C
Sergeant Flint.J
Corporal Nance.T
Corporal Fox.Z
Corporal Fryer.T
Corporal Tech.E
Corporal DeCann.A
Corporal Grey.W
Specialist Vara.J
Specialist Sorrow.R
Specialist Walker.TR
Specialist Madlock.B
Specialist Harry.J
Specialist McGill.A
Specialist Kron.D
Specialist Drezelan.O
Specialist Casey.W
Private First Class Coner.J
Private First Class Dalton.J
Private Weather.J
Private Stark.A
Private Doodeck.C
Private McKinley.K


7th Cavalry Members Who Did NOT Achieve Operational Credit:
Master Sergeant Zimm.L (Retired)
Staff Sergeant Stone.J (Retired)
Specialist Banks.M (Discharged)

Non-7th Cavalry/Unknown Members:

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If name is not listed contact Corporal Fryer.T

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


Element Callsign:



Element Leader:



7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:







Pros:




Cons:

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Banshee - 1 (LAV)
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Lucander.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant First Class Lucander.P

Pros:

• Good plan
• Good level of contact

Cons:

• Low on number for Banshee - 1, probably because we LAV's.
• A bit ambitious plan, but good.
• Back end server crash, "The crash today was caused by a Cloudflare crash between our server and the B.I. servers".
• LAV not having AT missiles and low ammo count made for a rearm, HE main gun rearm is still broken for LAV, when you empty it out.
• i jumped on 60 instead of 61 to contact Air, my bad, in the stress cone at the time.
• We landed initially a bit forward, so we had to run back to the LZ, that made us late, having us to scramble move to the SBF instead of moving tactical.
• LAV has glitchy yellow thermal that isent showing enemy heat signature, just bad yellow colored night vision that is weird.

 

[Zimm.L]

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

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

Pros:

• Good having CLSs on 63.0 with the medics
• Buddy and CLS did a good job of getting casualties stable for 7's

Cons:

• On the air assault we were given numbers to jump out of helicopter but when we got on LZ no one called them and everyone just jumped out​

 

[Taylor.C]

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


Element Callsign: Gunslinger-1



Element Leader:
Staff Sergeant Taylor.C



7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Doodeck.C
Lieutenant General Tharen.R
Lieutenant Colonel Robbi.J
Corporal Grey.W
Specialist Vara.J
Specialist Drezelan.O

Pros:
The enemy faction was a challenge to PID
Despite a mixed bag of, participants and set backs the larger force movement felt well executed.

Cons:
Not consistent to previously established OP format.
Poor PCC/PCI at event start. Did not have a SL at step and had to quickly accommodate

 

[Nance.T]

Element Callsign: Gunslinger-3
Element Leader: Corporal Nance.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Walker.TR
Specialist Kron.D
Corporal Fox.Z
Specialist Casey.W

Private McKinley.K
Specialist McGill.A
Specialist Harry.J
Sergeant Mack.A

Sustains:

• Great concept of mission. GMs did a great job getting us up and running after a crash
• The squad performance was outstanding today. Good movement, good coverage of LDAs and ODAs.
• Communication in the squad was great FTL to FTL comms were on point, good echoing of orders and senior NCOs doing senior NCO stuff (Fox)
• Platoon comms were good. Had support from 7 through most of the op and multiple good handoffs of red tags. Good work with 4 getting across the runway, and then supporting us through Complex D
• Good platoon chain of command having 4 step up to take over and coordinate an assault through contact by the western road.

Improves:

• Buffalo were overpacked with infantry. Partially due to having Banshee crew inside of Buffalo
• Platoon got bogged down at different points. Likely largely due to somewhat low turn out
• Slightly immersion breaking to have 5 resupply with infinite supply out of a backpack. Sort of neutral on this one as there was no Helios and it kept the momentum up

 

[Mendoza.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Gunslinger 4
Element Leader: Sergeant Mendoza.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Giordano.C
Private First Class Dalton.J
Specialist Sorrow.R
Corporal DeCann.A
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Staff Sergeant Stone.J RETIRED
Specialist Banks.M DISCHARGED

Pros:

• The squad performed excellently at the initial SBF, laying down a lot of suppression while taking heavy incoming fire
• Multiple good examples of succession of command took place during the op, and the command handovers were very prompt
• 4 worked closely with 3 during the mission, communicated well and covered each other to good effect

Cons:

• Movements could have been a bit better. We were not really sticking to any kind of formations
• I neglected to establish TRPs for the gun teams during lulls in contact.
• Local security around the squad had some holes in the coverage, leading to taking causalities from close contacts
• Coordination of shift and lift fire commands should be called out prior to assault teams moving out from their cold positions
  • Example:
    • All elements established at cold positions
    • SBF team gets emplaced at hot position and initiates fires
    • Assault teams move to hot AP or LCC while SBF teams suppress
    • Assault teams get established at AP and calls for shift fire
    • SBF element leader acknowledges and requests the assault teams to standby for shift
    • SBF increases rate of fire for 5-10 seconds and then shifts
    • SBF element leader gives the assault element the confirmation of shift fire
    • Assault teams then move from LCC and conduct SBF locally as needed

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Angels.N]

S1 Operations Processed / Milpacs Updated