AAR AAR | Arma Reforger | Firefight Friday (JUL) | FF059

[Smith.DM]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

S3 BATTLE STAFF

Headquarters

7th Cavalry Regiment

COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT


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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Stolen Horse
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Campaign Perseus
Number within campaign: 54
Game: Arma Reforger
Server Hosted on: Tactical Realism GM

Date of Combat Mission: 03JUL26
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200Z
Time of Endex (Zulu): 2430Z

Mission OIC BLUFOR:
6: Major Rodahl.S
5: Major Hilberg.A

Mission Controller(s):
Staff Sergeant Smith.DM
Specialist Tremblay
Corporal Masnec.G

Number of Attendees: 51

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Major Dread.M
First Lieutenant Vaughn.V
First Sergeant Westcott.R
Master Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Staff Sergeant McAllen.J
Sergeant Mackey.A
Sergeant Flint.J
Sergeant Nance.T
Sergeant Clegg.M
Corporal Harrel.R
Corporal Zaren.T
Corporal Yota.G
Corporal Wagner.D
Corporal Pearl.F
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Grey.T
Corporal Bolte.D
Corporal Vara.J
Specialist Baggett.H
Specialist McGill.A
Specialist Kron.D
Specialist Juenemann.D
Specialist Ford.R
Specialist Coner.J
Specialist Brown.G
Specialist Wright.P
Specialist McKinley.K
Specialist Brideau.J
Private First Class Walden.M
Private First Class Thomas.K
Private First Class Max.G
Private First Class Birch.J
Private First Class Baker.D
Private First Class Sawyer.H
Private First Class Murphy.K
Private Otter.K
Private Moore.P

Public Players:
6amautumn
acidtripwndrland
Willie
VinnyBotk
Sutr
SpeedySloth
PMC callsign: Griper
Molitor.K

 

[Nance.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Pioneer-3
Element Leader: Nance
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Grey.T
Specialist McKinley.K
Recruit Pastorick.W

Specialist Kron.D
Corporal Wagner.D
Specialist Brideau.J
Private First Class Thomas.K

Pros:

• Everyone had fun. Enjoyed the concept of the op
• Good mix of working as full platoon, pair of squads and on our lonesome. Had attachments for second OBJ
• Squad worked well together. Good internal comms. FTLs were on top of it
• Buffalo flights were well coordinated. Got us where we needed to be, smooth pick ups

Cons:

• First landing was rough, caused 5 yellow tags and 1 black tag
• Second bullet to make help even it out
• Slight miscommunication which led to a clunk(ish) shift fire with 4

 

[Westcott.R]

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:First Sergeant Westcott.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Staff Sergeant McAllen.J
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Ford.R
Private First Class Birch.J
Private First Class Max.G
Private First Class Baker.D
6autumn

Pros:

• Outstanding OP concept and execution. Kudos to P6 for the long leash on the SL's: Give me more! Just put an X on the map...tell me kinda what is there, tell me who is supporting me...and I'll figure it out!
• Squad level communication and execution was superlative! We were able to perform in-op FTL training for a Public player (BZ CPL Zaren for the assist), 0 squad injuries on all 3 OBJs tonight.
• Platoon comms were humming! Great to hear the SL's fighting the fight and coordinating.
• FULL PLATOON!!! Excellent turnout

Cons:

• Contact felt light, but mostly because we had at least 3x M240 teams over our shoulder all night.
• Not an actual con...but a suggestion: I would like to have had more subsequent raids...no need to RTB...just give each Section a series of OBJs and let them work it out.

 

[Coner.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Buffalo Flight
Element Leader: Specialist Coner.J - Buffalo-1 PIC

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Sawyer.H - Buffalo-1 Crew Chief

Major Dread.M - Buffalo-2 PIC
Private First Class Walden.M - Buffalo-2 Crew Chief

Second Lieutenant Molitor.K (DISCHARGED) - Buffalo-3 PIC

Corporal Pearl.F - Buffalo-4 PIC

Pros:

• Everyone had fun. Enjoyed the concept of the op
• Flight worked well together.
• Buffalo flights were well coordinated.

Cons:

• Loading at PZ's was slow, causing Buffalo Flight to almost catch RPG rounds

 

[Clegg.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Pioneer-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Clegg.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Harrel.R
Corporal Vara.J
Specialist Baggett.H
Specialist Brad.T
Specialist Juenemann.D
Private First Class Murphy.K
Private Otter.K
acidtripwndrland
Sutr

Pros:

• Great concept of operations from S3, troopers had a lot of fun tonight.
• Both fireteams worked well together, integration of supporting elements in the squad was adapted to well
• All comms at all levels was fire tonight!

Cons:

• Some delays loading into the birds tonight, and mis calls of "last man" due to last minute reassignment of supporting elements
• Formations needed some work, and we had some discussion on additional training (BIT) availabilities in the future
• SL's when involuntarily removed from a helicopter, cannot fly. check your key binds!

 

[Mackey.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Pioneer-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Mackey.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Mackey.A
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Brown.G
Specialist McGill.A
Specialist Wright.P
Corporal Yota.G


Public Players in attendance:
SpeedySloth
PMC callsign: Griper

Pros:

• Ran both as a squad and as dispersed Gun team attachments to support squads hitting multiple targets at the same time.
• Squad was quick and flexible in reactions, first two objectives were hastily planned off of 1's asking of support. Squad then quickly came up with a hasty plan ~ 30 seconds to plan and then brief.
• Had dispersed positions on the second objective which lead to a wicked crossfire on the target area.
• Squad was quick on buddy aid / self aid, only took 1 black tag.
• Usage of fire commands / rates of fire/ shift - lift coordination on platoon.
• Had to fight and clear our way into the SBF on the 1st two objectives. winning both the local fight and the bigger platoon /section fight.

Cons:

• First landing off the designated DZ, squad quickly established a new hasty position and executed taskings in support of Pioneer -1
• Felt like to 4 was an after thought in the planning process on the first and second objectives. If detached gun teams were the plan it should of been briefed that way so we could of been quicker on the split up.

 

[Vaughn.V]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Pioneer-7
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Vaughn.V
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros:

• Great concept of operations from S3
• Appropriate amount of contact considering we had 1 medic
• All comms at all levels were great

Cons:

• Could have used more support from the squad CLS'
• Buddy-team level first aid could have been better

 

[Bolte.D]

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

Element Callsign: Helios-1
Element Leader: Corporal Bolte.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Master Sergeant Mazinski.H
Private First Class Moore.P
Sergeant Flint.J

Pros:

• Was able to split into two battle buddy teams to conduct raids attached to Pioneer elements
• Fun idea and fun concept that we are exploring and getting into with this quick and fast TOT missions
• Got to do a little bit of demolition and some resupply.

Cons:

• LOTS of down time between raids. One part of the mission we could've conducted a Cross-Load style ACE and moved on to the next target.
• AS far as mission priority and needs Helios didn't have really much to do besides the last 5 minutes at the end.
• The way the AO's were built, if the idea was for Helios to be able to breach on target there wasn't much tasking for us to do to get into the AO's.
• Lots of miscommunication when it came to the loading of the birds and who was where.
• 1x Blue-on-Blue incident that was mainly my fault. I called crossing but didn't wait for acknowledgment from trooper to wave me across or give him ample time to respond as he started engaging enemy as I was crossing while he was doing his job on external security.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Operations Processed.