AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Wild East - Operation Rough Aprons - 30APR22 - 1900Z

[Burton.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Rough Aprons
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign Wild East
Number Within Campaign: 1/?
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 30APR22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900Z
Mission OIC: Captain Burton.P
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Mazinski.H

Attendees:
Major Ronen.R
Captain Burton.P
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Second Lieutenant Derry.B
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Abbassi.G
Warrant Officer 1 Baruch.J
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
First Sergeant Geki.T
Staff Sergeant Guerra.J
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Maco.D
Corporal Cazarotti.V
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Norman.B
Corporal Novak.I
Corporal Varnado.J
Specialist Bates.J
Specialist Beiter.A
Specialist Boyd.M
Specialist Coots.J
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Specialist Dunn.W
Specialist Easson.T
Specialist Ewing.R
Specialist Holiday.T
Specialist Olson.DJ
Specialist Phillips.B
Specialist Ryder.D
Specialist Stanley.K
Specialist Swagger.J
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Verlot.L
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Bowman.B
Private First Class Marston.C
Private First Class Sam.T
Private Burlas.J
Private Moon.P
Private White.M
Private First Class Zaren.T
Recruit Swift.R

Pros:

• Decent movement.
• Good op. Very engaging, everyone was kept pretty busy.
• Roughneck elements steamrolled most contacts.
• Mission accomplished (Found the only surviving pilot)

Cons:

• Connection issues in general.
• Seemed to be a lot of rubber-banding at times.
• Wrong birds for the job. (Never Grizz again)
• Multiple squads ran out of ammo.
• Bounding wasn't performed when pulling back.
• More squad-to-squad comms.
• Needed more map markers for objectives.
• Need to work on spacing.
• Kits were missing gear. (HuntIR monitor)
• Confirm targets (PID)

 

[Olson.DJ]

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1/GRIZZLY-1
Element Leader: Olson.DJ

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Burlas.J

Pros:

• Well put together mission
• Always moving, never just standing still for too long
• Good radio communication between air to air

Cons:

• Grizzly bird has no breaks, not a good bird for in-and-out LZ's
• Minimal communication on ground to air due to lack of infidel

 

[Coots.J]

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

Element Callsign: GUNSLINGER-2
Element Leader: Specialist James Coots

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Joshua Varnado
Corporal Isaiah Novak
Specialist William Dunn
Specialist Les Turner
Specialist Jason Swagger
Specialist Brandon Phillips
Specialist Kieran Stanley
Private First Class Baxter Bowman

Pros:

• Very fun operation
• No black tags within squad
• Violence of action was good

Cons:

• No map markers or indicators
• Lack of understood from platoon leadership to at least our squad
• tactical Charlie Foxtrot within squads with movements

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-3
Element Leader: Private First Class Sam.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Norman.B
Private First Class Sam.T




Pros:

• OP was fun overall.
• No black tags.
• Communication was good between Roughneck-7 and Atlas teams was good.

Cons:

• Surgical interventions were limited.
• Mixed results with pre-made loadouts.
• An issue with modlist/map content caused one medic to be unable to attend and lead to a last-minute change of team composition.

 

[Burlas.J]

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1/GRIZZLY-1
Element Leader: Olson.DJ

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Olson.DJ

Pros:

• Great Flying and situational awareness
• Great support and communication between flight elements
• Great speed in insertion

Cons:

• CH-47 is a flawed model with concern to the breaks
• Lack of ground communication due to Infidel's situation

 

[Wulf.C]

Element Callsign: BISON-3
Element Leader: Warrant Officer Constantine "Lullaby" Wulf

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer John "Crayon" Baruch


Pros:

• A really fun and challenging OP.
• Well planned and executed insertion.
• Great flying, teamwork, and comms between birds.

Cons:

• Infidel had difficulties with connection and then disappeared and nobody picked up the position after, it was passed on to ground leads.

 

[Boyd.M]

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

Element Callsign: Roughneck-7
Element Leader: Specialist Boyd.M



Pros:

• OP was fun overall.
• No black tags.
• Communication was good between Roughneck-7 and Atlas teams was good.

Cons:

• Loadouts were not the normal ones today and they were kind of messed up
• An issue with modlist/map content caused one medic to be unable to attend and lead to a last-minute change of team composition.

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign:Roughneck-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Saint.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Staff Sergeant Guerra.J
Specialist Verlot.L
Specialist Bates.J
Specialist Easson.T
Specialist Ryder.D
Private First Class Zaren.T
Private First Class Marston.C
Specialist Xinos.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Private First Class Holland.M
Specialist Cobblestone.G

Old persons home:
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M

Pros:

• Squad loved the OP (some say it was the best op they have ever been apart of)
• squad formations were strong and well executed
• Op was fun due to being more independent
• Comms were well understood
• good cohesion
• good CQB
• nearly no casualties
• Speed and Violence of action
• Fireteams did fantastic
• Marked and cleared buildings with proper chem colors
• limited talking when needing to CQB
• strong 40mm
• strong 249 SAW rounds
• strong AT-4
• But that CQB tho.
• both fireteams were really tight and ontop of their orders and execution

Cons:

• Too many squads in a section or a compound at once
• People disconnecting before AAR
• The Briefing was held 15 minutes early (this is not inherently bad) this caused troopers to be late to the standard brief.
• Orders were constantly back and fourth movement between platoon intent and squad intent causing troopers unable to settle
• plan was strange to the troopers, our objective to save a pilot was the last objective completed
• a unusual number of air frame crashes
• our kits were missing some important items such as HuntIR monitors with limited access to simple flare rounds (arsenal stuff)
• the Exfil was a little messy, without clear and concise decisions it lead to half of the platoon over at the secondary LZ and half the platoon at the primary LZ which was actively a hot LZ

 

[Cazarotti.V]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader: Corporal Cazarotti.V

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Cazarotti.V
Private Moon.P

Pros:

• Good OP.
• Good communication and movement with 1 and 3.

Cons:

• No bandages and saline in the start
• Roughneck-5 units failed to detect survivors in the Black Hawk crash area.
• Blue on blue situation
• No smoke signal or chemical lights were used to guide pilots on the landing approach at the main LZ.
• The Chinook collision in primary extraction was very serious. If that helicopter had exploded when it collided, it would have killed at least a dozen soldiers, including the hostage rescued.
  
  
  
  

 

[Geki.T]

Element Callsign: Roughneck-5
Element Leader: First Sergeant Geki.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Geki.T
Major Ronen.R
Sergeant Maco.D
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Beiter.A
Private First Class Hilberg.A
Private White.M
Recruit Swift.R

Pros:

• Really fun op, everyone had fun
• Machine guns did a great job running talking guns
• Good internal movement and bounding
• Fun to get out of our standard kit

Cons:

• Usual issues with desyncs that prevented gun teams from being able to fully function properly
• Gun teams carrying different ammo than their gunners led to inability to link belts
• A lot of rubber banding
• Severe lack of fundamentals at the platoon level. Squads failed to work cohesively with one another to bound. We always need a set piece and a moving piece.
• Usual issues with the CH-47s. I'd recommend we look at the vanilla one if we ever use them.

 

[Ewing.R]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: SPC.Ewing.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Holiday.T

Pros:

• Really fun operation
• the smaller medical teams made for a calmer leading experience which was a really nice change of pace
• Atlas 2 & 3 worked really well in cohesion with us and overall no over stepping of patient primary care
• No black tags

Cons:

• Some people could not attend due to the Contact DLC being used for one building placement and "DLC Required" being set for OP
• I made a bad judgement call not double checking for bandages because I had never seen them get left out of base kits so I went out on the field in a one-life with none.
• All Atlas elements were not made aware of bounding situation leaving 1,2 & 3 a bit far from all friendly elements except Roughneck-5

 

[Groves.A]

LOCKED

 

[Groves.A]

S1 Operations Processed.