AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign September Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 110

[Tharen.R]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Warfare Wednesday 110
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign September Warfare Wednesday
Number Within Campaign: 3/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 15SEPT21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Colonel Tharen.R
Mission Controller: Major Sweetwater.I, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N

Number of Attendees: 45

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Colonel Tharen.R
Major Sweetwater.I
Captain Ronen.R
First Lieutenant Hobbs.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wulf.C
Warrant Officer 1 Tyrcon.L
Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Master Sergeant Schmidt.A
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Centeno.JP
Sergeant Connelly.M
Sergeant Derry.B
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Hess.J
Sergeant Kastor.K
Corporal Baruch.J
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Kubbo.A
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Morrow.J
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Whitfield.L
Specialist Caliber.J
Specialist Encino.T
Specialist Hunter.A
Specialist Mariani.S
Specialist Taylor.A
Specialist Turner.L
Private First Class Zander.D
Private Matteson.B
Private OBrien.T
Private Niclas.K
Private Thomas.S
Private Vincent.L
Recruit Torrence.A

Pros:

• Took out 2 different AO's, ~10 bunkers, ~10 capture points, 2 radio towers
• Platoon coordinated and moved well together killing hundreds of enemy
• Lots of people stepped up into leadership roles and did well

Cons:

• Brevity on comms, non-Gunglsinger assets clogging up Platoon Net, and using locations when reporting
• Friendly fire incidents
• Gunslinger Platoon spaced out at times

If your name is missing from the attendance list, please send a PM to Colonel Tharen.R.

 

[Schmidt.A]

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

Element Callsign: Gun 3 / INFIDEL / Gun 2
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Schmidt.A

Pros:

• Blew up lots of targets
• No FPS or Radio Loss
• Took capture points.
• Was fun

Cons:
N/A

 

[Velasquez.J]

Kubbo.A

 

[Caliber.J]

Element Callsign: Raider
Element Leader: SPC Caliber.J
Co-Pilot: Sergeant Connelly.M

Pros:

• Got to provide some ISR
• Destroyed multiple hard targets
• Was challenging

Cons:

• Rotor damaged/ disabled on multiple missions - seemed to be a common thing happening amongst rotary. (Ultimately was able to bring the bird down, and repair)

Suggestion for Domination map:

No further comments

 

[Mariani.S]

Element Callsign: Gunslinger-1
Element Leader: SPC Mariani.S
FTLs: SSGT Centeno.JP, CPL Morrow.J

Pros:

• Coms on PLT Net were organized
• Fireteams where well lead and had veteran players, thus Good inter Squad communication.
• Both Squads kept good tempo even though 1st had multiple mass cas's
• Love Lithium

Cons:

• Framerate drop most likely due to multiple airborne assets in the AO
• Need more ground troops instead of assets like tanks and helos to allow squads to bump each others locations and reorganize after contact, rather trade out eagle and raider for a support squad with MGs and Mortars providing SBF

 

[Liber.N]

Posting on behalf of Sparrow.

Element Callsign: Sparrow-1
Element Leader: Sutodoreh

Pros:
- From CAS perspective felt the OP was pretty clean -- communication between Infidel and CAS assets seemed clear and consistent, all assets were being used effectively.
- Recommendations for improvement would mainly be for CAS/CAP assets to watch sensors more carefully and respond more quickly to spawning enemy air assets before they reach the AO itself rather than after. Overall, pilots worked well together today and meshed well with forward controllers.

Cons:
- At today's WFW there was a blue-on-blue incident involving myself as Sparrow-1 (AH-6 Littlebird). In my view, which I believe the Infidel and other pilots will confirm, the operation up until the time of this FF incident was extremely smooth and positive. Communication between CAS assets and JTAC, and between CAS assets and other assets, was consistently positive.

Near the end of the operation, Sparrow was tasked by Infidel to engage and destroy two barracks, which I did with Hydras. Sparrow was next tasked on a SW-NE hydra run inside of a box drawn by Infidel on the map within 20m of friendly forces. I began my run, confirmed with Infidel that the run was danger close, was told to continue hot due to friendlies being overrun (there was an ongoing mass casualty situation caused by hostiles which we were being tasked to support). I executed my run and egressed NE before being told by Infidel to repeat from NE. While repeating my fire mission, I took machinegun fire from a tower (the capturable ~10m tall camp towers) filled with infantry who I therefore believed were hostiles extremely close to friendlies I was tasked with supporting. Liber, who was in ZEUS, can confirm this. I took at least one round directly through the helicopter and returned fire on the tower with my remaining rockets, then switched to the GAU-19/A but was shot unconscious by friendly forces and killed on contact with ground.

I do not know the names of the people who fired on me, or whether a command element gave an order to fire, but ZEUS reported that the friendly units who fired at me were laughing about it at the time. Additionally, none of those forces even attempted to reach me or Infidel to report a blue-on-blue and request a wave-off -- they simply fired at and shot down a friendly air asset trying to support them.
Sgt Hess and SGM Nexhex proceeded to tell the WFW lobby in side chat, falsely, that Sparrow attacked friendly forces unprovoked. I apologized extensively for the mistaken blue-on-blue during AAR, but not a single person who fired upon me purposely came forward to explain their behavior in firing upon me initially.

 

[Wulf.C]

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

Element Callsign: Bison-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wulf.C
Corporal Baruch.J

Pros:

• My co-pilot did a great job.

Cons:

• The amount and frequency of anti-air assets is insane (from red-air to various ground assets).
• Infidels do not know what to do with Bison-1
• With increase in air assets we need to push having more than one infidel, between Raider, Eagle, Sparrow, and Bison CAS net 12 was overwhelming.
• The respawn bug with the H-60's is still present and cost us time and created confusion at the start.

 

[Kastor.K]

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

Element Callsign: INFIDEL for first 1hr 15 min of Op
Element Leader: Sergeant Kastor.K

Pros:

• Assets very responsive on 12 LR net, clear comms.
• Effective missions where executed.
• Great pilot turnout.

Cons:

• Too many airframes and types for a single INFIDEL to handle, especially with no PEGASUS (at the same time I was juggling BUFFALO, RAIDER, SPARROW, BISON and EAGLE).
• Introduction of new airframe types (BISON) without any mention of capability or how to apply them during brief. Some (e.g. BISON / SPARROW) seemed to overlap in capacity and toolsets (FFAR and guns), probably only one was really necessary.
• Loss of air superiority when EAGLE had to sing off at 1hr mark.
• Planned airframe loadouts not mentioned during brief, which delayed my own planning on how to apply them until I was fully briefed by pilots.
• Way too many anti-air and RED AIR assets constantly spawning at AO, had to constantly deal with airframes going down.
• Infantry leadership did not call for CAS despite overwhelming enemy assaults and heavy opposition. Had literally one call from the ground during my time on, which was denied due to a request of support by fire under 200m from friendlies moving in the direction of the call.
• Due to above, Op turned to switching between long periods of "sit on a hill with binocs and try to spot anything worth hitting" and brief moments of "frantically try to kill the APCs / technicals / ZU trucks that spawn and rush in from the North and threaten to overrun the infantry platoon". Would have been much more enjoyable with infantry cooperation and proper utilization of all the air assets we had on call.

 

[Garcia.SM]

LOCKED

 

[Garcia.SM]

S1/OPERATIONS PROCESSED

S1 Note

Private Torrence.A was a recruit at the time of the operation and had not completed bootcamp yet thus making the trooper ineligible for operation credit.