AAR AAR | PIONEER PROTOCOL | Season 4 Episode 3 | 05NOV26 0200Z

[Giordano.C]

7th Cavalry Regiment

Pioneer Protocol 05NOV26

After Actions Report
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Event: Pioneer Protocol S4E3 Anvil's Advance
Date: 05NOV26
Game: Arma Reforger
Number within campaign: 3 of 4
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Season 4 Hammer of Denali
Server: =7Cav= Tactical Realism GM Server
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0200z
Window (Zulu): 0200z - 0400z


GM:
Sergeant Howe.T
Corporal Harrel.R

OIC:
First Lieutenant Carr.W

Number of Attendees: 23

7th Calvary Members:
Major Rodahl.S
Major Lewis.A
Staff Sergeant Giordano.C
Sergeant Bosley.B
Sergeant Garrick.S
Sergeant Grey.T
Corporal Chisum.J
Corporal Johnsen.M
Corporal Jones.RH
Corporal McGahan.L
Corporal McKinley.K
Corporal Woodford.F
Specialist Brad.T
Specialist Burns.C
Specialist Leon.J
Specialist Max.G
Specialist Miller.M
Specialist Miranda.M
Specialist Murphy.K
Specialist Otter.D
Private Flame.M
Recruit Jones.HS

Pending 7th Cavalry Members:
Recruit Scott.NR
Recruit Hollis.T


Public Members:
Viper 1-1


If your name is missed and need to be added to the roster send a PM to Major Dread.M.
If you have an award recommendation send a PM to First Lieutenant Carr.W, Major Rodahl.S, Major Dread.M.

 

[Miranda.M]

Element Callsign: Helios Fires
Element Leader:
SPC Miranda.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
None

Pros:

• Numerous spontaneous fire mission support, commanders intent was clear enough in the purpose of conducting each fire mission
• Nothing but Hip shoots throughout the op, very much on a reactive role. Always fun to do so.
• Good deconflicting of air assets in order to avoid bird striking Raven elements.

Cons:

• I caused x4 short rounds due to cheese charge desync. I hope no friendlies were hit by my IDF I provided.
• Urban terrain can lead to not being able to find suitable MFP locations. Happened a few times.

 

[Miller.M]

Element Callsign: Pioneer-7
Element Leader:
Specialist Miller.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Myself

Pros:

• Good work from Giordano.C as Pioneer-5 to coordinate with medical for setting CCP points
• 3 Red tags saved
• Rolling CCP worked well

Cons:

• Only one squad had CLS capabilities
• Multiple Red tags when to Black tag, before Medical could reach them. These were preventable deaths
• Rain caused significant lag

How can we improve for the future?

• Add a CLS to assist/drive the FLA (Ambulance) for the platoon medic
• Review CLS protocols with the CLS and the platoon medic prior to step off of future Operations
• Require at least 1 CLS per each squad. CLS can be assigned to any soldier in the squad, and they can have another role within the squad (excluding Squad Leader and FTLs).
• Maintain a CLS "jump" bag per vehicle. If CLS cannot carry that equipment on their person, because of them having another role within the squad.
• Ensure CLS is on Med Net (Freq. 63) to ensure they can effectively reach the platoon medic by radio

 

[Garrick.S]

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:
Sergeant Garrick.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Lewis.A
Major Rodahl.S
Corporal Chisum.J
Specialist Leon.J
Specialist Max.G
Specialist Otter.D
Private Flame.M
Recruit Hollis.T
Recruit Scott.NR

Sustains:

• Parallel pushing down the town was very nice.
• Vehicle crews were very effective tonight. Showed a lot of initiative.
• PID was great tonight. No civilian casualties, no blue-on-blue.
• Bravo team did a great job conducting impromptu defile drills for vehicle movements in urban environment.
• Scott and Hollis did great for their first time, absolute pleasure having them in the squad.
• CAS and mortars tonight were fantastic. Very effective smoke missions especially.
• Helios-1A rocked with us tonight, got on our net, true attachment, worked as a body for me for defile drills. Loved seeing it.
• Platoon medic was on fire tonight, really enabled us to do our job and got casualties up very effectively.
• Rocking mission set put on by Howe and Harrel this season. Thank you so much guys, had a blast!

Improves:

• Route out of the TAA - need routes confirmed when GMs build up areas as we can't see those obstructions on the map. Would like to see routes planned out in general but that might be down to not everyone having access to drawing tools.
• Objective size was very large for the numbers we had tonight. Pioneer managed it (because we rock) but we definitely noticed we were sacrificing a lot of safety due to the size of the AO and the speed we had to move through it.
• When Helios pushes up to deal with obstacles, we need to provide better proximal security. Should push up fireteam/dismounted individuals.
• Need to be better with momentum in break contact situations. Break contact calls would benefit by having direction stated.
  Fireteam-to-fireteam comms could have been better.
• Rear security was difficult to obtain with numbers.
• Actions on Contact should be specified from the get-go so we know how the OIC wants us to deal with those situations. If those Actions on Contact change as the mission develops, having that communicated would be greatly helpful.
• Would like to see these urban missions focus on priority targets within the urban centers. Clearing through an entire town is a long and arduous process and realistically we would have some idea of the hardpoints that the enemy had selected, especially with this particular operation being on American soil. I know the GMs had some very cool target locations for us tonight with some very Helios-specific taskings so seeing these target locations prioritized and marked may have made for a better experience!
  

 

[Burns.J]

Element Callsign: Helios-1
Element Leader:
SPC Burns.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PFC Owens.A

Pros:

• The amount of obstacles provided was perfect
• The diversity of the tasking and making up of tasking on a fly

Cons:

• The op was just moving way to fast for Helios to actually do anything
• Helios didn't do much and were mainly sitting in the back due to the obstacles meant for Helios being very easy to avoid.
• The convoy wasn't very organized and many times had people in the wrong area
• I got team killed due to a stinger back blast

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Operations Processed.