AAR ARMA 3 | May Warfare Wednesday 2024 | WFW 237

[Dread.M]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 237
Number Within Campaign: 2/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TACR
Date of Combat Mission: 08MAY24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1700CST)
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Mission Controller: Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

Attendees: 37
Colonel LaCombe.M
Captain Highman.J
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Davis.D
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Spin.M
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Fougere.J
Specialist Hamm.C
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Peterson.L
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Vincent.C
Specialist Winters.R
Private First Class Shere.J
Private Lee.P
Recruit Walker.HJ
Dr. Wierd
Expendable_Joe

 

[Holiday.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Blade.B
SPC.Winters.R


Pros:
Great team to work with
Great response to calls
Good amount of work for team
Had some fun ubering people around

Cons:
Little slow at times

 

[Blake.H]

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

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Element Callsign: VIKING-7
Element Leader: Corporal Blake.H

Pros:

• Very good communications with ATLAS
• Fast response and reactions from ATLAS team
• Good self aid observed
• Good operation

Cons

• More ACE reports maybe
• Platoon Medic cometechless helmet is TAN not MC making them stand out

 

[Narramoor.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: VIKING-1
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Personnel in Squad:
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Specialist Vincent.C
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Peterson.L
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Sergeant Vincent.L
Private Boyd.M
Specialist Casey.W
Sergeant Davis.D
Corporal Kastor.K
Private Walker.HJ
Rico-Iannetti(Kenny)

Pros

• Fun
• Good spotreps
• Great FTLs
• Good communications
• Good crossloading
• Good set pieces from the mission makers in creating close-in flanks, challenging to do on this open terrain

Cons

• Wide open fields - Challenging 800m+ infantry engagements
• Low Turnout
  • Low mutual support because of large area to cover with 2x squads
  • Thankfully mission makers and 6 adjusted the plan to make things more entertaining for attendees
• I keyed up on the wrong net a few times
• View distances on thermals low distance
• Some issues with kits (outlined below)
• Damaged Sierra

Kits

• Grenadier doesn't get underslung GLs? - sounds like a glitch
  • Block 2 M320

 

[Thumper.N]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Viking-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B (Sierra-6 Gunner)
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R (Sierra-6 Driver)

Pros:

• Good coordination and communication.
• Overall good positioning as much as possible.

Cons:

• Lack of numbers for the mission.
• Vehicle bugs.

 

[Shepard.S]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-4
Element Leader: Specialist Shepard.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Colonel LaCombe.M
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Sergeant Crowley.T
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Casey.W
Private First Class Shere.J
Private Lee.P

Sierra Crew:
Sergeant Lucander.P
Specialist Borenstein.B


Pros:

• Succession of command, by SPC.Apollo, after SL disconnect was on point.
• Few casualties within squad.
• Good self aid and buddy checks observed.
• Good operation overall.
• Atlas' movement between defensive positions was great.
• Great comms, movement, and fire control by FTLs.

Cons

• Difficult to raise 5 sometimes. Made it hard to pass up ACE reports.
• Lane boundaries should have been more appropriate to the ground. Instead of just N to S.
• Sierra Command & Control(C2) was poor. Sierra acted mostly as an independent element from the squad. Resulting in poor positioning and fire/movement support for the squad. Forcing squad to egress several kilometers on foot.(Recommend Sierras be controlled directly by SLs, while 5 coordinates Repairs, Medical, and Sustainment. Given the rapid nature of a delaying action)
• Sierra C2 caused extremely delayed and slowed movement between defensive positions.
• During a hasty delaying action, Viking-5 needs to communicate with SLs for closer Sierra repairs.
• Indirect fire is essential to a delaying action, in order to disrupt enemy advance and cover friendly movement rearward.

 

[Spin.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: RAVEN-2
Element Leader: CPL. Spin.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
2LT Grizzle.M
CPT. Highman.J


Pros:
Decent pace, even though it seemed slow. Overall good pace for a mech op (from the air)
Great comms with 5 and inter-flight.

Cons:
Slow-ish, not enough resupply needed (is a good thing for the ground folks).
Nothing else

 

[Hamm.C]

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

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Element Callsign: RAVEN FLIGHT (1,2)
Element Leader: Specialist Hamm.C "Hooker" (Raven-1 PIC)

Personnel in Flight:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L (Raven-1 CP)
Corporal Spin.M (Raven-2 PIC)
Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M (Raven-2 CP)

Pros:

• Good and fun operation.
• Rotary light/slow but expected for mechanized operation. Good utilization of Raven flight, with great flying, crewing and teamwork. Excellent job from this flight group.
• Comms with Viking-5 were responsive and well coordinated. We all appreciated the LZ map markers indicating open/closed statuses.

Cons

• Turnout could have been better.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!

Assigned Rasmus.M for Processing.