AAR Operation Liberty Road (Alpha Company FTX) 20NOV21

[Komar.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Liberty Road (Alpha Company FTX)
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: TBD
Date of Combat Mission: 20NOV21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2359
Mission OIC: First Sergeant Komar.T
Mission Controller: First Sergeant Komar.T

Number of Attendees: 65

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Colonel Larouche.Z
Major Rogers.S
Major Emerson.D
Captain Budd.D
Captain Rob.Y
First Lieutenant Rollins.R
Second Lieutenant Bunnell.M
Second Lieutenant Whitfield.L
First Sergeant Komar.T
Staff Sergeant Preacher.A
Staff Sergeant Strider.R
Staff Sergeant Wolf.G
Staff Sergeant Huber.B
Staff Sergeant Hayden.A
Sergeant Cotton.R
Sergeant Gibbs.B
Sergeant Hermes.S
Sergeant Smith.N
Sergeant Williamson.J
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Corporal Reign.A
Corporal Longmen.D
Corporal Zimm.L
Corporal Butcher.B
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Virgil.S
Corporal Bacon.C
Corporal Rhodes.R
Corporal Rhone.T
Corporal Jarvis.EJ
Corporal Garcia.SM
Corporal Morrow.J
Specialist Bearden.C
Specialist Fields.Q
Specialist Benjamin.T
Specialist Avery.D
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Ricks.L
Specialist Savage.G
Specialist Canuck.J
Specialist Jefferzon.Z
Specialist Carr.R
Specialist Williams.S
Specialist Choi.S
Specialist Henderson.B
Specialist Bargo.J
Specialist Babcock.R
Specialist McNeely.C
Specialist Ackelson.K
Specialist Cameron.J
Specialist Lemon.D
Specialist Dornbierer.J
Private First Class DeVriend.M
Private First Class Riker.J
Private First Class Norman.B
Private First Class Hampton.D
Private First Class Kilo.M
Private First Class Lee.R
Private Thrawn.N
Private Commons.T
Private Farris.H
Private Forelle.F
Private Stenberg.P
Private Raymond.S
Recruit Tyrpin.B

 

[Komar.T]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - Commander
Element Leader: First Sergeant Komar.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Komar.T


Pros:

• Lot to be learned about Communication and finding something that works for Tankers.
• Lessons learned for future coordination, and FTX balancing.
• Some really good individual efforts at the squad/tank level. Lots of positives to work off of moving forward.
• Artillery was devastatingly effective.
• Massive challenge handled extremely well
• Got 28 B.Co, C.Co, 1 member of 2-7 Batt staff and 1 member of 1-7, fantastic turn out to any event let alone an FTX. Thank you to everyone who showed up!

Cons:

• Poor/sloppy start, got behind the 8 ball early.
• Multiple Breaks in ROE from Cadre killed all momentum, was never recovered. On me to have called a Reset, will ensure it happens next time.
• Balancing issues, should have ensured at least 3 tanks fielded by cadre to even out infantry numbers(27 v 17) regardless of cadre commander preferences. Not enough to support 6 tanks + maintain a front against 10 extra infantry.
• Fuel and Tank timer issues

 

[Preacher.A]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - Lima- Squad Leader
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Anthony Preacher

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Anthony Preacher

Pros:

• FTLs followed orders.

Cons:

• Too many tanks
• Not enough communication
• Too many tanks
• Could NOT get momentum at any point. Too reactive in this game.

 

[Budd.D]

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

Element Callsign: Axis - Command Fire Team 1
Element Leader: Captain Budd.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Budd.D
Second Lieutenant Bunnell.M
Staff Sergeant Hayden.A
Staff Sergeant Huber.B
Staff Sergeant Wolf.G
Sergeant Cotton.R
Specialist Babcock.R
Specialist Bargo.J
Specialist Lemon.D
Specialist McNeely.C
Private Raymond.S
Private Stenberg.P

Pros:

• Communication was extremley well
• Three man dream team (Budd, Wolf, Rhodes)

Cons:

• No cons

 

[Strider.R]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - War Daddy
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Ross Strider

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PVT. Farelle.F

Pros:

• Good FTX, My tank platoon did well in using the infantry and coordination. They executed orders well and to the letter
• GREAT cadre turn out had 64 people in the FTX was amazing

Cons:

• Not enough mechanized infantry to support 6 whole tanks (this is most likely due to the actual meta of the game itself and not something to do with cav tactics)
• Not enough Fuel!
• The coordination at the beginning was very cut off and did not go well
• Rules when set need to be followed, there were some areas that were starting to cap and detracted from our objectives and added to the outcome of the match

 

[Huber.B]

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

Element Callsign: Axis-
Element Leader Staff Sergeant Bobby Huber

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• Had fun
• felt like a Corner Stone on Defense

Cons:

• Felt like we were just target practice for tanks too many enemy tanks don't like the tanks weren't working together enjoy defending needed artillery plus artillery seemed a bit hectic

PLACEHOLDER

 

[Rob.Y]

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

Element Callsign: Axis - Commander
Element Leader: Captain Rob.Y

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Rob.Y


Pros:

• Really great team tactics
• overcame larger enemy force
• Comms and tactics extremely well executed

Cons:

• didnt wrangle my guys perfectly some misset rules
• Lots of tanks, prolly a bit unrealstic

 

[Hayden.A]

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

Element Callsign: Axis- Support FTL 1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Hayden.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Morrow.J
Specialist Lemon.D
Private Raymond.S
Private Stenberg.P

Pros:

• Troopers had fun
• Good teamwork

Cons:

• Allies armor to infantry ratio seemed odd.

 

[Jarvis.EJ]

Element Callsign: Axis- Support FTL 2
Element Leader: Jarvis.EJ

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Fields.M

Bearden.C

Larouche.Z

Pros: Great comms, great strategy. Super Fun.

Cons: Only thing we noticed was no infantry support for their tanks. Made it easy to get around them.

PLACEHOLDER

 

[Gibbs.B]

Element Callsign: Axis - SL
Element Leader: SGT.GIBBS.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
MAJ.Emerson.D
SPC.Cameron.J
CPL.Rhone.T
SPC.Ackelson.K
SPC.Benjamin.T
SGT.Garcia.SM
CPL.Jarvis.EJ
Feilds
SPC.Bearden.C
Larouche
Pros:
- we won the game
- Aco FTX so its not about us
Cons:

• No cons

 

[Sotelo.R]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - TC 2
Element Leader: Sergeant Sotelo.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Henderson.B
Specialist Choi.S

Pros:

• Within the crew, we all felt very satisfied with our tank's perfomance.
• Very much had fun
• Strider's Platoon kept up good comms most of the time, including some good battle buddy moments between mine and Virgil's tank.

Cons:

• Coordination with everyone else felt very rough, really putting into question our comms system in regards to armor-infantry coordination.
• Amount of infantry lacked, therefore the spread of infantry support for all tanks suffered

 

[Butcher.B]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - TC 6
Element Leader: CPL Butcher.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PVT Commons.T
PVT Thrawn.N

Pros:
Got to play

Cons:
Comms was lacking
no communication between infantry and armor
no infantry to protect the tanks
we did not implement how we have been training
plan was not followed
tiger was to OP without being allowed to have a 76
would rather have more enemy tanks than be limited on our heavy's

 

[Zimm.L]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER-ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Allies - Alpha Squad Lead
Element Leader: Corporal Zimm.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Carr.R
Private First Class Riker.J
Private First Class Norman.B
Pros:

• had fun play with eachother
• good arty marks and calling in

Cons:

• poor start
• felt lack of infantry on our side of the field
• No coordination with tanks because of comms
• local chat is scares now because of new comms
• I know I shouldn't say this but the lack of ROE'S being followed by Cadre

PLACEHOLDER

 

[Rollins.R]

Element Callsign: Allies - TC4 (Mike)
Element Leader: https://7cav.us/rosters/profile/337/

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Williams.S

7cav.us

Corporal Jinto.H

7cav.us

Major Rollins.R

7cav.us

Pros:

• Had Fun
• Crews liked the concept

Cons:

• Lacked coordination
• Communications not like we practice so were not effective
• Lack of fuel - More nodes were built but should have been done quicker
• Restrictions too much against us, completely open to Cadre. We need to try and even this out or have the favor to us and index and limit us if we are overpowering.

 

[Canuck.J]

Element Callsign: Allies - FT 1-2
Element Leader: Specialist Canuck.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Jefferzon.Z
Private Devriend.M

Pros:

• Good Artillery coordination.

Cons:

• Not enough infantry.
• Need the FT to remain together as much as possible.
• Need more flank watch.
• Not enough coordination between FTs.

 

[Williamson.J]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - TC 6
Element Leader: SGT.Williamson.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PFC.Kilo.M
PFC.Lee.R

Pros:
Good individual results

Cons:
Comms was lacking
no communication between infantry and armor, therefore no infantry to protect the tanks
plan was not followed
tanks should be even - as the game played

 

[Avery.D]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - Jigg - FTL 1-4
Element Leader: SPC Avery. D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC Ricks.L
SPC Savage.G
SPC Dornbierer.J

Pros:

• Everyone had fun.
• Good comms within squad.

Cons:

• Nonstop flanking attacks.
• To many tanks and not enough infantry to cover building defenses.

 

[Rhone.T]

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

Element Callsign: Axis - Squad 2 Fireteam 1
Element Leader: CPL.Rhone.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Rhone.T
SPC.Cameron.J
SPC.Ackelson.K
SPC.Benjamin.T
SGT.Garcia.SM
CPL.Bacon.C



Pros:

• Phenomenal maneuvering and effectiveness
• Squad eliminated 12 enemy tanks and achieved a combat effectiveness score of almost 2100
• Excellent communication

Cons:

• The enemy infantry was like a bad bra - not enough support.

 

[Hermes.S]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER-ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Allies - Squad 1 / FTL 1 "Bravo 1-1"
Element Leader: Sergeant Hermes.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Reign.A
Corporal Longmen.D
Private First Class Hampton.D

Pros:

• A fun, challenging concept
• Thank you for the work that went into this
• Appreciated difficult odds
• Hard fighting
• Well placed artillery and coordination with.

Cons:

• Too many tanks. Not enough infantry. (A concept I'd like to revisit)
• Not enough infantry to cover tanks and push points
• The start was too slow: didn't leave point until 2:10 had passed. HUGE when a cap race is at large.
• No assignments with tanks; therefore minimal communication bc the tanks tanked. The infantry infan-tried.
• The Rally felt rushed and an opportunity to fully discuss the ordered approach was minimal.
• The issue regarding the ROE
• Incorrect Comm utilization led to an extreme amount of clogged comms in the first 5 minutes. (perhaps this should be revisited by all sections)

 

[Smith.N]

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

Element Callsign: Allies - How - Artillery Squad Leader
Element Leader: Sergeant Smith.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Smith.N

Pros:

• Good marks for fire missions

Cons:

• Too many tanks, maybe have 2 attached/assigned with infantry in future, hard on the fuel points too
• Issues at beginning