AAR [ARMA3][WFW] Operation Mad Dog - 02FEB22 - @2200Z

[Gann.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Mad Dog
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign February Warfare Wednesday 2022
Number Within Campaign: 1
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 02FEB21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Gann.T
Mission Controller: Specialist Coots.J

Number of Attendees: 54

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major LaCombe.M
Captain Hobbs.T
Captain Phoenix.G
First Lieutenant Bunnell.M
Second Lieutenant Gann.T
Second Lieutenant Hess.J
Second Lieutenant Spiers.M
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Abbassi.G
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Langlois.R
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Couvillion.T
Staff Sergeant Guerra.J
Staff Sergeant Kastor.K
Sergeant Dio.B
Corporal Barone.E
Corporal Connelly.M
Corporal Fields.Q
Corporal Fox.S
Corporal Hunter.A
Corporal Stetchkov.A
Corporal Sullivan.A
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Specialist Bates.J
Specialist Easson.T
Specialist Harvey.S
Specialist McMaster.G
Specialist Novak.I
Specialist Roberts.L
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Van Alstine.R
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Weiss.S
Specialist Whitehead.B
Specialist Dunn.W
Private First Class Holiday.T
Private First Class Phillips.B
Private Zaren.T



Pros:

• PACE plan good
• Secured all objectives

Cons:

• Cnmms issues
• Extreme amount of casualties

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[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: HUSTLER-7
Element Leader: Private First Class Phillips.B

7Cav Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Phillips.B

Pros:

• Incredible player turnout
• Great PACE plan prior to step-off
• Good Atlas response despite medical/radio issues

Cons:

• Radios broken, inconsistent and cluttered due to initial ACRE woes
• Force multipliers too accurate/punishment for air mistakes
• Unclear Re-Insertion plans and respawn points broken
• Medical CBA settings set to Defaults and left medical personnel ineffective at best

 

[Spiers.M]

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

Element Callsign: Infidel-1
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Spiers

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Second Lieutenant Spiers
Pros:

• Stunning effect on targets, multiple tracked vehicles, infantry platoons, and encampments destroyed
• Good communication between airframes and ground assets, a good mixture of 9-line, 5-line, and type 3 missions
• Good initiative from pilots regarding reconnaissance and spot reps passed on to infantry callsigns

Cons: Initial Radio Issues

 

[Winters.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER-ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsigns: ATLAS-1
Element Leaders: Specialist Winters.R

7Cav Personnel within element:

Private First Class Holiday.T
Corporal Velasquez.J

Pros:

• Lots to do for squad members
• Internal communication were mostly good
• Great response time to causalities and reports of causalities
• Unit proactively finding causalities
• Big turn out

Cons:

• CBA medical system was not set correctly making bandaging instantly stitch, causing causalities ending up black or DOA
• Patients continuing to treat themselves instead of providing security while being treated by ATLAS-1
• Patients moving away while treatment was in progress
• LR bug threw a wrench in things

 

[Langlois.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER-ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsigns: FALCON-1
Element Leaders: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ryan Langlois

7Cav Personnel within element:
Retired Warrant Officer 1 Jason Swagger


Pros:

• Lots of targets to shoot down or hit with bombs
• Infidel CAS calls were spot on
• Double the airframes is double the fun

Cons:

• Radio issues but the non-preset radios channels seemed to work fine

 

[Sullivan.A]

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

Element Callsigns: HUSTLER-3
Element Leaders: Corporal Sullivan.A

7Cav Personnel within element:
Corporal Sullivan.A
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Black.A
Specialist Roberts.L
Private First Class Dunn.W
Corporal Fields.Q
First Lieutenant Bunnell.M
Private Zaren.T
Specialist Bates.J
Recruit Dabucs.T
Staff Sergeant Guerra.J

Pros:

• High Turnout.
• Stronghold Defense is a great idea, but not optimal execution.
• SR Coms where great between Fireteams.

Cons:

• Radio issues.
• Bad CAV PR from higherups.
• 15 man death right before the assault, not fun tbh.
• LZ is far from AO, and no land transport from and to, which requires at least 10 minutes to walk.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1, 2
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C

7Cav Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Abbassi.G
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Corporal Terp.J

Pros:

• Fantastic player turnout.
• Great mission conception and design (except Marine part IMO, cause we're Army based)
• Great leadership and leadership briefing.
• Fun and lots of laughs.

Cons:

• Total Radio comms catastrophe at the outset, which resulted in massive confusion/noise and difficulty in planning.
• Initial LZ was way too close to danger- multiple AA threat alerts. Should have scrutinized that LZ much more closely.
• Respawn points should never be utilized when you have transport pilots there to fly transport.
• Hatchet H-60 Blackhawks should have been utilized instead of CH-53, which has a terrible flight model and far reduced capability.

 

[Couvillion.T]

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

Element Callsigns: HUSTLER-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Couvillion.T

7Cav Personnel within element:
Captain Hobbs.T
Second Lieutenant Hess.J
Corporal Connelly.M
Specialist McMaster.G
Specialist Weiss.S
Specialist Easson.T
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Novak.I
Specialist Van Alstine.R
Specialist Harvey.S
Fox.Z

Pros:

• High Turnout.
• Good movement
• Simple scheme of maneuver allowed for easy management of large infantry squads.

Cons:

• Radio issues.
• The FOB we used to defend against the QRF was absolutely packed to the brim due to the numbers present. It may have been better to spread out friendly elements more. Especially considering we were taking a large amount of IDF.
• OPFOR Air is a good concept to use but it's a fun sponge when they're effective. A balance between realism and allowing for fun gameplay is needed.
• A lot of unprofessional moments from Cav members in an OP designed for recruitment.
• Too close of an LZ - no reason to land so close to a known enemy strongpoint.

 

[Abate.L]

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

Element Callsigns: HUSTLER-2
Element Leaders: Staff Sergeant Abate.L

7Cav Personnel within element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Kastor.K
Corporal Barone.E
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Fox.S
Corporal Hunter.A
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Stetchkov.A
Specialist Whitehead.B

Public Personnel within element:
Pvt. Bo
Willdabeast464
[RET] Boyd.M

Pros:

• High Turnout.
• Good aggression from all.
• Fantastic movement through to objective.
• Utilisation of equipment and force multipliers.
• Good succession of platoon command. Kept order through defense.
• Successfully defended open area.
• Fun mission with all enjoying themselves.
• Brilliant designated mission file.

Cons:

• Radio issues.
• Limited mission slots with no overflow. People unable to join.
• Squad wipes from enemy air and mortars. Highly accurate
• De-sync issues.

 

[Derry.B]

LOCKED

 

[Zabuden.R]

S1 PROCESSED/COMPLETE