AAR AAR ARMA3 | Operation Desert Saber

[Burton.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Desert Saber
Campaign of Combat Mission: N/A
Number Within Campaign: 0
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 21MAY22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1730Z
Mission OIC: Captain Burton.P
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Mazinski.H

Attendees :
Captain Burton.P
Corporal Wiese.M
Colonel Tharen.R
Command Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Corporal Novak.I
Corporal Gerrish.T
Specialist Zaren.T
Specialist Cox.Y
Corporal Norman.B
Specialist Phillips.O
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Voci.P
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Perez.J
Specialist Phillips.B
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
Sergeant Maco.D
Private Keith.W
Recruit Warder.G
Major Hobbs.T
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Stewart.AJ
Corporal Borenstein.B
Specialist Bishop.C
Private First Class Hilberg.A
Private Keith.W
Sergeant Maco.D
Specialist Phillips.B
Recruit Warder.G
Sergeant Mariani.S
Specialist Holiday.T
Private Dermont.L
Private First Class Bowman.B
Sergeant Ulrich Raeder
Private First Class Holland.M

Pros:

Cons:

 

[Tharen.R]

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

Element Callsign: Sabre 1-1
Element Leader: Colonel Tharen.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Colonel Tharen.R
Command Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Corporal Novak.I
Corporal Gerrish.T

Element Callsign: Sabre 1-2
Element Leader: Private First Class Holland.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Holland.M


Pros:

• Great op, loved every second of it - felt so good to do a large scale tank operation w/ proper Cavalry Scout support!
• Plenty of action, killed multiple enemy tank platoons, mechanized infantry vehicles, and personnel
• Great crew in Sabre 1-1!
• Platoon performed following orders very well by doing action drills, react to contact, communication, staying in formation, etc, at a high level
• Involved a lot of new members and public players that gained good experience
• Great support from Warhorse 7 and Atlas when needed
• Good communication with Troop Staff at all times - comms were great
• Troop movement was very exciting with 2 tank platoons and a scout platoon, plus support vehicles, rolling across the desert at high speeds in formation - looked and felt so good!
• Really well made operation - everyone had fun!

Cons:

• It's hard to coordinate 60+ people without significant slow down, but there was some significant down time that could have been sped up probably
• Some assaults and movements were very cautious for being an armored troop w/ Abrams and Bradley's that could have been trusted to move faster, further, and with more violence of action

 

[Zaren.T]

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

Element Callsign: Saber 1-3
Element Leader: Specialist Zaren.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Zaren.T
Specialist Cox.Y
Ocydon (Public Player)


Pros:

• Good Teamwork between the vehicles in the platoon in regards to calling out targets, movement and engagements.
• Good ACE and Sitreps
• Good effect on engaged targets
• Decent communication overall
• Crew Preformed really well considering we dont really do armor in Charlie and that we had an excellent public player.

Cons:

• Resupplies where abit messy sometimes and took long time due to it taking 20 sec per ammo type and round to when re-arm. this made us sit around 15-20 min on the FARP's everytime.

 

[Phillips.O]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Specialist Phillips.O

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Norman.B
Specialist Phillips.O
Mr. Wierd (Pub)
Pros:

• Excellent and concise orders from First Sergeant Geki.T which resulted in effective movement and tasking.
• There was no arguing. Orders were executed in a timely manner and if there were complaints they were discussed in downtime.
• ATLAS teams were able to effectively support medically/logistically despite losing ATLAS-3 part way through the OP. This resulted in ATLAS 1 and 2 needing to provide logistical support. Excellent adjustment on the fly.
• Comms were never at any point cluttered with meaningless conversation. Only missions essential discussions were had on radios and this resulted in no confusion about where to go, what to do, and who was doing it.

Cons:

• Frame rate dropped from 50+ to <8 for many people in ATLAS.

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Viking - 2
Element Leader: Corporal Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Voci.P
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Perez.J

Pros:
Everyone had fun at some point.

Cons:
More to do for infantry.
On the slow side at times.
Knights in the blind (internal driver joke) we had some problem to keep track of him when in line.

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Specialist Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Boyd.M
Specialist Zander.D
Staff Sergeant Guerra.J
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Adunno.D
Private First Class Bowman.B

Pros:

• Good Tempo
• 90's setting was fun
• Well plan op for the armor troopers
• Good comms between viking and saber

Cons:

• Dismounts bored
• Thermals didnt work as intended
• Rearming took too long
• Some items were whitelisted when not era appropriate while other items were era appropriate but not avaliable
• Using AI for Air assets while we have A Co that would fly for us

 

[Knights.Z]

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

Element Callsign: Viking 6
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Knights.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant First Class Knights.Z

Pros:

• Very good performance from all throughout the 6 hours OP time
• V1 and V2 responded well to commands and comms were consistently good
• Completed the objective in good time

Cons:

• No major cons I can think of
• No thermals or night sights for the bradleys

 

[Burton.P]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Boyd.M
Zander.D
Turner.L
Guerra.J
Cobblestone.G
Kastor.K
Adunno.D

Pros:

• Good Tempo
• 90's setting was fun
• Well plan op for the armor troopers
• Good comms between viking and saber

Cons:

• Dismounts bored
• Thermals didnt work as intended
• Rearming took too long
• Some items were whitelisted when not era appropriate while other items were era appropriate but not avaliable
• Using AI for Air assets while we have A Co that would fly for us

Please make sure your attendance roster includes the troopers' links to their milpacs instead of just their profiles. @-ing them doesn't work. Cotta copy-pasta.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Sabre 2-2/2-3
Element Leader: Specialist Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
Sergeant Maco.D
Private Keith.W
Recruit Warder.G

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Outstanding Mission From S3
• Action Consistent
  • We had highs, lows, and everything in-between so it felt good for 6 hours
• Action Not Overwhelming
  • Tank combat can be hard to balance but it was done well here
• Outstanding Public Appearance

Cons:

• Map Markers Not Utilized
  • Given the number of assets on the field, would have enjoyed battle plans written out on map
  • Not nearly enough enemy markers for cross-platoon/company
  • This includes both Blue Force Tracker and normal map
• Friendly AI Vehicle Spawns?

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: Sabre 2-1/PLT Leader
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Saint.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Saber 2-1
Major Hobbs.T
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Stewart.AJ
Corporal Borenstein.B
Specialist Bishop.C

Saber 2-2
Private First Class Hilberg.A
Private Keith.W

Retirement home:
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M

Future Cav members:
Generic Bushman

Saber 2-3
Sergeant Maco.D
Specialist Phillips.B
Recruit Warder.G

Saber 2-4
Sergeant Mariani.S
Specialist Holiday.T
Private Dermont.L

Pros:

• Blood was offered to the blood god this day
• Good platoon comms, dudes knew (were told) where to go, which way, and how to execute the movement
• I'm pretty sure we had snipers in gunner positions
• Plt knew the internal SOP speeds under combat and way to engage targets
• Troopers had alot of fun even as charlie infantry manning a plt of tanks

Cons:

• We didn't see enough recce with the troop set we had
• lost 1 tank all others were armaisms
• Plt can work on our movement, we had a tank cross our own assault line multiple times
• One of our tanks although got on comms was unable to get in contact with us and went AWOL
• We stopped the Batt when 1 Viking element got hit by enemy tank/BMP fire, we should have rolled through and eliminated the threat.
• Fuel Bladders from atlas were too small, and extended an already long resupply time
• Blufor tablet dependent, couldn't open the tab because it would crash my game
• Gunners, Identify your targets and get that fire order from TC we had too many close calls of FF because of gunners getting too trigger happy
• Next tank op like this we could use a loader on both 1st and 4th Saber

 

[Raeder.U]

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

Element Callsign: Sabre 1-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Ulrich Raeder

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Ulrich Raeder
Staff Sergeant Zubrican.F (RET)
CMDR. Sneaky (public player)




Pros:

• Great tank op
• Great server performance
• Decent turnout

Cons:

• Many unnecessarily long pauses
• Response to contact felt underwhelming at times (e.g. whole troop should not pause movement because 1 vehicle gets knocked out)

 

[Stanley.K]

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

Element Callsign: Saber 1-3
Element Leader: Specialist Stanley.K

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Stanley.K
Specialist Winters.R
Private First Class Sam.T
Private Williams.U
Private Thompson.J
Pros:

• Good work on any calls that was made to atlas
• Gerrish
• atlas worked well in filling other roles
• Comms were really good between 7 and all the atlas units

Cons:

• Framerate dropped dramatically around the 4 hour mark for a good few people
• The time to resupply was really long especially when you had to refill everything on a tank

 

[Derry.B]

LOCKED

 

[Derry.B]

Assigned Burlas.J for processing

 

[Burlas.J]

S1 Operations Complete.