HOW ONE ARMA 3 UNIT SET IT UP Your ranks, your qualifications, your awards
A new community starts empty. You create your own ranks, qualifications, awards, courses and units, with no fixed list to fit into.
Everything below was built by one unit, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, to show what an Arma 3 unit typically sets up. Use it as inspiration, not as a template you have to follow.
A US Army rank ladder
28 ranks, warrant officers included. Promotions are logged on the member's file, and you decide which ranks can promote whom.
NCOsSGTSSGSFCMSG1SGSGMCSM
Warrant officersWOCWO1CW2CW3CW4CW5
Officers2LT1LTCPTMAJLTCCOL
Qualifications that matter in Arma
27 qualifications covering who can fly, jump, run Zeus or call in air. Instructors are tracked as qualifications of their own.
ZeusCombat Life SaverMedicRadio OperatorForward Air ControllerAirborneAir AssaultPathfinderFree FallSapperEODAviatorArmorAnti-TankMarksmanSniperReconSERE
Operations, raids and FTXs
Each one has slots per element, member sign-ups, an OPORD and an AAR (as text or a Google Drive link), and an announcement in Discord.
- Operation "Iron Dagger" (raid)
- Operation "Baltic Gate"
- FTX "Bronze Horizon"
Training courses
Courses with sign-ups, and every result kept on the member's file.
- Basic Combat Training
- Combat Life Saver Course
- Airborne Qualification Course
- Zeus Training
Campaign medals, awarded automatically
80 ribbons and badges with their own images. Awards can be granted automatically for attending a specific operation, or once a member has attended a set number of operations in a campaign. In 1st Cav's "Desert Storm" campaign, two operations earn the Southwest Asia Service Medal.
Counts as of October 2026.