AAR ARMA3 | June Warfare Wednesday 2022 | Warfare Wednesday 142

[Mazinski.H]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Warfare Wednesday 141
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign June Warfare Wednesday 2022
Number Within Campaign: 1/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 01JUN22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Mission Controller: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N

Attendees:
Specialist Corveaux.A
Specialist Boyd.M
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Stetchkov.A
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Corporal Whitehead.B
Private Parker.J
Private First Class Burlas.J
Private First Class Sam.T
Specialist Stanley.K
Specialist Eugene.R
Private Williams.U
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Gerrish.T
Specialist Hilberg.A
Specialist Sutodoreh.W
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Ryder.D
Specialist Zander.D
Private First Class Bowman.B
Private First Class Parker.Z
Colonel Tharen.R
First Lieutenant Stewart.B
Corporal Novak.I
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Specialist Dunn.W
Specialist West.Z
Private First Class Keith.W
Specialist Phillips.B
Sergeant Sullivan.A
Specialist Silver.G
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Liber.N

If you have medal recommendations, please send them to your element leader. If you were an element leader, please submit them to me in the PM you were invited to. Deadline for these is 1 week from today.

If you were missed in the attendance list, please contact Liber.N.

 

[Boyd.M]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: Specialist Boyd.M

Other Members
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Stetchkov.A

Pros:

• Good stick time
• Great communication from crew
• smooth flying all around
• we caught Mr. Cage
• Took lot of fire and didn't lose airframe
• went black on miniguns

Cons:

• Long flight time from base to AO
• Buff-2 got shot down a few times due to miscommunication from ground
• someone came on net and tried to control buffalo flight, they were not authorized and it caused mass confusion

 

[Burlas.J]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-2
Element Leader: Private First Class Burlas.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Corporal Whitehead.B
Private Parker.J

Pros:

• Long flights to the LZ gave pilots more flight time and a more realistic feel that made planned resupplies more challenging which added to emersion.
• Great LZ locations with a lot of space to land birds, and good en routes into the LZ area.
• Great comms and teamwork between air assets and no mid-air conflicts arose during the operation.
• After Buffalo-2 was deadlined at the LZ, ground elements did well to fold us into their unit and escort us to another LZ to extract.
• A lot of fun as a whole in terms of the operation layout and execution (Great Job with that Liber!)

Cons:

• Cleared into a hot LZ and upon touch down, no personnel moved to board the aircraft. After ninety seconds, Buffalo-2 sustained damage that deadlined the vehicle.
• Buffalo-2 hit fire at the end when in trail in the Buffalo flight. Had to initiate a low-level autorotation that ended in clipping a rock and crashing the aircraft.
• Comms were an issue as multiple additional callsigns flooded the net during exfil which made it very confusing for the Buffalo flight who typically relies on Infidel, 6, and 5.
• Lost Hamm at the beginning and for the next hour he attempted to rejoin despite battle-eye issues not allowing him to reconnect. I've added him to the AAR because of this.

 

[Gerrish.T]

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

Element Callsign: Gunslinger - 7
Atlas 1/2
Element Leader: Corporal Gerrish.T

Other Members
Private First Class Sam.T
Specialist Stanley.K
Specialist Eugene.R
Private Williams.U
Corporal Velasquez.J
J Turn
Joe


Pros:

• Enjoyed Briefing from 7
• Great Communication with Platoon Staff
• Allot of fun!

Cons:

• Acre Bugs

 

[Sutodoreh.W]

Element Callsign: Infidel-1
Element Leader: Specialist Sutodoreh.W

Other Members
Specialist Hilberg.A

Pros:

• Pilots successfully prosecuted Infidel's fire missions and generally stuck to our instructions or asked for clarification/modification
• Plenty of action for all CAS elements yet didn't seem to be detracting from infantry experience -- Gun-6 did a good job of working with Infidel to ensure that everyone had something to do.
• Good communication between Gun-6 and Infidel
• Good communication between Infidel and intra-element coordination -- 1-2 picked up when 1-1 had too much going on, yet didn't overstep

Cons:

• Unauthorized individuals/units coming onto comms causing some confusion. Similar rule to coloured smoke: if someone is not specifically designated to be someone who coordinates a CAS strike or transport pickup, they should not be doing so under any circumstances.
• Need to be clearer at START of operation whether Gun-5 wants to coordinate transport or prefers to delegate to Infidel.
• Need to re-emphasize at start of operations that NO unauthorized players should be using coloured smoke.

 

[Rodahl.S]

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

Element Callsign: GUNSLINGER-1
Element Leader: Specialist Rodahl.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Ryder.D
Specialist Zander.D
Private First Class Bowman.B
Private First Class Parker.Z

Pros:

• My guys had a ton of fun.
• Good OP. A ton of props to Liber for working hard on mission making and making it enjoyable for all of us.
• Very good platoon coms. Got a good reply and answer going with most elements on 08. Trying to omit 6 for brevity.
• Resupply happened, but it was too late to make use of. I chose to look at this like a pro.
• Awesome Air assets and Infidel. Show of force and danger close.
• Hard work by the squad. We were taking a beating with multiple cardiac arrests and yet we still had no black tags.
• A good amount of contacts. Liber kept the balance in check here, see point two.
• Good, decent pacing most of the mission.

Cons:

• Unknown intent from 3. This was my bad as I missed it on 08. Caused a blue-on-blue incident.
• Resupply late.
• Atlas-4 is missing 40mm rounds.
• The pacing slowed down towards the end, causing us to lose vigilance.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Gunslinger-3
Element Leader: Specialist Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Colonel Tharen.R
First Lieutenant Stewart.B
Corporal Novak.I
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Specialist Dunn.W
Specialist West.Z
Private First Class Keith.W


Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Augustin Demonceaux

Pros:

• Solid Contact Amount
• Short & Sweet
• Mission Accomplished

Cons:

• Platoon Planning
  • Had to audible significant portions of the operation because of no briefing
  • Exfil plan was shoddy and left birds on ground for way too long
• Squad Lanes
  • Respecting lanes to avoid fratricide
  • Many of my members struggled to provide support due to constant lane breaks/IFF issues

 

[Sullivan.A]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Sullivan.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Sergeant Sullivan.A
Specialist Silver.G

Pros:

• Turret Went Pew Pew pew
• We recovered the HVT

Cons:

• Random Disconnections
• Disconnect between handoff of HVT to Atlas-4 and communication to air united to recover them to base.

 

[Summerfield.P]

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

Element Callsign: Gunslinger-5
Element Leader: First Sergeant Summerfield.P

Other Members
First Sergeant Summerfield.P

Pros:

• Airfield Assault went well
• Good support from Atlas and it was good having a 7 this time
• Buffalos were responsive and on point despite the 18km one way flight
• SLs were responsive went asked for info
• SLs stayed on line and utilized the PLs during the city assault

Cons:

• Gunslinger 2 SL wasn't actually slotted as the SL so blufor tracker was off which caused me to play hide and seek with the SL.
• Coordination between the leads during the exfil could have been better which led to a cluster of an exfil and a Buffalo being disabled. At one point we had four different LZs and three different people trying to coordinate a pickup.

 

[Burlas.J]

LOCKED

 

[Burlas.J]

Assigned: Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ OPERATION PROCESSED