AAR [ARMA3][Operation] Operation Crimson Dawn - 10JUN22 - 2300Z

[Gann.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Crimson Dawn
Campaign of Combat Mission: N/A
Number Within Campaign: 1
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 10JUN22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Gann.T
Mission Controller: Specialist Eugene.R

Attendees: 38
Major Phoenix.G
Captain Burton.P
First Lieutenant Stewart.B
Second Lieutenant Gann.T
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Staff Sergeant Couvillion.T
Staff Sergeant Otel.J
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Maco.D
Sergeant Black.A
Sergeant Novak.I
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Ewing.R
Corporal Gerrish.T
Corporal Harvey.S
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Norman.B
Corporal Stone.J
Corporal Varnado.J
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Specialist Corveaux.A
Specialist Oldham.G
Specialist Phillips.B
Specialist Phillips.O
Specialist Sam.T
Specialist Eugene.R
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Hilberg.A
Specialist Sutodoreh.W
Specialist Vincent.L
Specialist Zaren.T
Private First Class Renard.S
Private First Class Villmarsson.L
Private First Class Westcott.R
Private Williams.U
Recruit Narramoor.A
Recruit Samuels.M

Pros:

• Really fun op
• Good engagement
• Good comms

Cons:

• Blue on blue
• Large black tag

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 yesterday.

If you were missed in the attendance list, please contact Eugene.R.

 

[Gerrish.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Crimson Dawn
ATLAS 1

Attendees:
Corporal Gerrish.T
Corporal Ewing.R
Sergeant Maco.D
Corporal Norman.B
Pros:

• Excellent Operation
• Good engagement
• Great Comms with 7 and inter-squad

Cons:

• Blue on blue
• Large black tag
• Slow to start

 

[Sutodoreh.W]

Eagle

Attendees:
SPC Sutodoreh.W
PFC Villmarsson.L

Pros:

• C-130 drop went smoothly
• Had a fun couple of Air-to-Air engagements

Cons:

• Blue-on-Blue incident + shot down an MI-8 apparently carrying an HVT. Need to work on communications between ground and air to make sure appropriate targets are being identified and struck. Eagle was only called in on 2 targets and BOTH turned out to be bad targets.
• Could have been some more Air-to-Air, had a lot of downtime.

 

[Varnado.J]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Crimson Dawn
MISFIT-3

Attendees:
Corporal Varnado.J, SL
SSgt Couvillion.T, A-FTL
Corporal Novak.I
Corporal Harvey.S
Specialist Phillips.B, B-FTL
Specialist Corveaux.A
Specialist Turner.L
Recruit Samuels.M

Pros:

• We had alot of fun
• Squad stayed alive until the last OBJ
• Squad moved well
• I loved being SL to this group of men. They did what they had too and most of us survived this one life OP. I love the one life OPs they are the best.

Cons:

• Blue on blue twice, once from Eagle and once from Misfit-4. Eagle was bad killed two troopers.
• To much walking for some troops and WPs could have been better due to terrain.
• 1st OBJ was too easy, and 2nd OBJ was to hard.
• Had cookoffs once firefights began. It was horrible, that even one trooper had to grab an AK from running out of ammo due to this.
• Once Misfit-6 went down the platoon had a hard time getting back on track
• SBF could have been placed in better spot on last OBJ but due to time it was understandable.

 

[Otel.J]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Crimson Dawn
MISFIT-1

Attendees:

Staff Sergeant Otel.J
First Lieutenant Stewart.B
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Oldham.G
Specialist Vincent.L
Specialist Cobblestone.G
Private First Class Westcott.R
Private First Class Renard.S
Recruit Narramoor.A


Pros:

• We had a lot of fun
• Squad stayed alive until the last OBJ
• Squad moved well
• Fundamentals executed with great skill
• Medical teams were quick and efficient.

Cons:

• Building we had just secured was hit by a bomb, took our 6 and mass casualty in Misfit-1
• Terrain features not quite what matched the battle plan, we adjusted in route however
• Bleed out time seemed quick

Loved the HALO, loved that we did a one life at night. This challenge and atmosphere were well balanced, and the only challenge to its success were things like NVG scripting and things of that nature. Most of the detractions came down to technical issues.

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader: Specialist Sam.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Sam.T
Specialist Phillips.O
Private Williams.U


Pros:

• Super fun OP. HALO drops and stealth OPs are super fun concepts to work with, and we got both of these in this OP.
• Once we took contact at the second objective, there was plenty of medical to do.
• Excellent communication between Atlas teams and Misfit-7.

Cons:

• The pacing was thrown off heavily by the blue-on-blue incidents and bleed-out timer. It felt like every casualty happened at once, and most died before Atlas could perform any kind of intervention.
• Surgical Perms were limited to vehicles and facilities. This is the default setting on the training server, which is the most likely culprit. This would've been fine, but our team was equipped for surgical actions, not PAK'ing troopers. Clarification of this at the beginning would have been helpful.
• The scripts lead many people to lose their NV equipment on the drop. There was contradictory information being passed around at the start, confirmation beforehand would've been helpful. As it turns out, the forest we were in was very, very dark!

All of the issues we had came down to either technical gripes with the server settings or poor communications before or during the operation. I would like to see more of these operations in the future, however, I understand the relatively slow nature of stealth OPs is a turn-off for many.

 

[Summerfield.P]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Summerfield.P


Pros:

• Fun operation
• Night time paradrop
• Good comms and discipline for a stealth / night mission
• Worked well with 6 and 7

Cons:

• Blue on blue

 

[Burlas.J]

LOCKED

 

[Burlas.J]

Assigned: Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ OPERATION PROCESSED