AAR Operation Node Smash

[Mulholland.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Node Smash
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Tactical Realism 1
Date of Combat Mission: 12nd February 2022
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000Z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Mulholland.J
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Mulholland.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: 33

Second Lieutenant Mulholland.J
Sergeant Smith.N
Sergeant Zimm.L
Specialist Riker.J
Specialist Hampton.D
Specialist DeVriend.M
Corporal Reign.A
Specialist Harden.M
Private First Class Corbin.R
Private First Class Bizutto.A
Corporal Longmen.D
Captain Budd.D
Sergeant Gibbs.B
Corporal Jinto.H
Specialist Beat.S
Specialist Beck.JW
Private Young.S
Sergeant Rhodes.R
Specialist Konn.G
Private First Class Flanagan.L
Major Emerson.D
Captain Budd.D
Staff Sergeant Gilnack.D
Corporal Brown.G
Sergeant Butcher.B
Specialist Cameron.J
Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R
Specialist Henderson.B
Private Carrington.D
Private Robertson.S
Sergeant Gibbs.B
Staff Sergeant Sparrow.P
Corporal Longmen.D
Specialist Litvin.D
Private First Class Bizutto.A
Corporal Ackelson.K
Private Blichasz.A


Pros: Good number of people attended considering the time of the OP. People had fun despite some small confusion.

Cons: Comms errors on Allied side. I plan on using Vanilla comms if we have under 45 people next time.

 

[Hayden.A]

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

Element Callsign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Hayden.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Hayden.A

Pros:

• SL's and FTL's did a great job.
• Superb team effort
• Got a win despite the disadvantage for roughly half the match

Cons:

• Some confusion regarding the opord

 

[Zimm.L]

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

Element Callsign: Fireteam Leader Axis
Element Leader: Sergeant Zimm.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Zimm.L
Specialist Riker.J
Specialist Hampton.D
Specialist DeVriend.M

Pros:

• good squad and good job flipping into and out of squad for spawns
• good comms

Cons:

• running a lot from garrisons
• AO to small
• people going outside the AO then coming back in behind us with no opposition because we thought they couldn't do that

 

[Longmen.D]

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

Element Callsign: Fireteam Leader Axis Squad 2
Element Leader: Corporal Longmen.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Reign.A
Specialist Harden.M
Private First Class Corbin.R
Private First Class Bizutto.A

Pros:

• Really fun op
• Great Organization
• Great squad did an amazing job. Makes leading a pleasure

Cons:

1. None reported. Maybe consider AO

 

[Beat.S]

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

Element Callsign: Fireteam Leader Allies
Element Leader: Specialist Beat.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Budd.D
Sergeant Gibbs.B
Corporal Jinto.H

Pros:

• Squad slapped
• Held a really nice angle covering north and east alleyways

Cons:

• When wiped the run was slightly too long
• We wanted to flank more to cover certain attack angles were told to stay going down mid which ultimately lost us the last point

 

[Smith.N]

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

Element Callsign: Axis SL 1 Comms 1
Element Leader: Sergeant Smith.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Smith.N

Pros:

• Good comms/marks by team, excellent coordination amongst FTLs

Cons:

• Multiple rounds of confusion from one side, running uncorrected with no restarts called.
• Too much repetition.

 

[Emerson.D]

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

Element Callsign: Bravo Fireteam Leader, Second Squad, Allies
Element Leader: Major Emerson.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Emerson.D
Staff Sergeant Sparrow.P
Sergeant Butcher.B
Corporal Brown.G

Pros:

• Troopers did well given the circumstances

Cons:

• 7 Leaders for 19 Troopers
• Micro managed on element structure
• Micro managed on tactics
• Restrictions caused Troopers to be maimed
• Extreme amounts of rules lead to in real time Trooper confusion
• Op structure caused both sides to devolve into camping and bad habits we strive to train away from
• Com structure still supports the idea that leadership gets overwhelmed from vanilla coms and require handicaps

 

[Sotelo.R]

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

Element Callsign: Axis FTL 2
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Henderson.B
Specialist Cameron.J

Pros:

• SL's and FTL's did a great job.
• Solid work holding key chokepoints
• Improvised AT gun helped break into main square

Cons:

• Was a little disheartening with the Allies capping so quick

 

[Rhodes.R]

Element Callsign: Allies Commander
Element Leader: Sergeant Rhodes.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rhodes.R

Solids:

• There's a glimmer of a good OP in here.
• Emerson.D and Beat.S's fire teams did great jobs defending the flanks.
• Konn.G did well with vocal communication despite being at the head of fire team

Improvements/Thoughts

• OPORD confusion made things harder than they needed to be. (my fault)
• Garrison spawns made travel time longer and the fight more drawn out than it needed to be.
• There was a huge leadership and comms organization issue mid-match
• Too many leaders spoil the broth.
• Half of the people didn't sign up until the last moment, causing placement confusion.
• Squad leaders were forced to function as fire team leaders, causing further comms issues.
• Not enough troop markers on the map and not enough communication as to enemy movements.
• The OPORD caused confusion regarding when rounds end, how the reset works, and how to deal with niche issues resulting from these interactions.

 

[Derry.B]

Locked

 

[Derry.B]

S1 Operations Processed

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 OPERATIONS AUDIT COMPLETE