AAR Arma 3 | Campaign Paper Trail | Operation Purple Warrior

[Tharen.R]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Purple Warrior
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Paper Trail
Number within campaign: 1/3
Game: Arma 3
Server Hosted on: TS 1
Date of Combat Mission: 27FEB21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2100Z
Mission OIC: Colonel Tharen.R
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Hobbs.T

Number of Attendees:

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Colonel Tharen.R
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
First Lieutenant Ronen.R
Second Lieutenant Hobbs.T
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G
Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Staff Sergeant Ocean.M
Sergeant Black.A
Sergeant Jupiter.J
Sergeant Mazinski.H
Corporal Couvillion.T
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Davidson.J
Corporal Derry.B
Corporal Dubois.F
Corporal Guerra.J
Corporal Hess.J
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Liber.N
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Wittman.M
Specialist Bowman.B
Specialist Burton.P
Specialist Cazarotti.V
Specialist Dio.B
Specialist Marcus.J
Specialist Prescott.J
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Schultz.R
Private First Class Dohun.T
Private First Class Hunter.A
Private First Class Lacasse.P
Private First Class Whitehead.B
Private First Class Andrews.A
Private Bishop.C
Private Grills.A



Pros:

• Completed all objectives
• Good controlled movement in convoy and leader's recon on the objective
• Good violence of action at the objective (Mosque)
• Only 3 black casualties
• Good break contact at Mosque and reconsolidation at ORP
• Good hasty defense at ORP
• Radio communications were great
• Atlas 3 did great moving the weapon cache

Cons:

• Atlas lost 2 vehicles at Objective 1
• Should have had up-armored and armed humvees or Strykers

If your name is not listed, or if you have medal recommendations, contact Colonel Tharen.R.

 

[Rosefield.M]

Element Callsign: Viking-3
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Couvillion.T
Sergeant Black.A
Corporal Wittman.M
Corporal Davidson.J - KIA
Specialist Dunn.W - DC
Private First Class Hunter.A - KIA


Pros:

• good comms
• Everyone enjoys the one life
• good mission concept and bold plan

Cons:

• wanted more contact
• wanted to go back through the town

 

[Nexhex.A]

Element Callsign: Viking-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Major Nexhex.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Jupiter.J
Corporal Hess.J
Specialist Marcus.J
Corporal Guerra.J
Specialist Schultz.R
Specialist Bowman.B
Private First Class Dohun.T - KIA
Private Grills.A


Pros:

• Great operation with good action in middle to end
• Squad Comms were clear and concise
• Cleared the mosque of 24 Infantry and only lost 1 casualty

Cons:

• Lost PFC Dohun during the mosque breach
• Breach into the mosque had a random slowdown waiting for V1 to pass V2

 

[Abbassi.G]

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

Element Callsign: Sparrow-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Cosme.O

Public Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Fantastic Op, both in terms of fun and mission design. Mission suited Little bird capabilities and limitations.
• Felt like our ISR SITREPs had a direct positive impact on mission outcome.
• Real effective CAS runs.
• Great co-pilot comms, coordination and role execution.

Cons:

• n/a

 

[Burton.P]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader:

Corporal Burton.P

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7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Reservist Dubois.F

7cav.us

Corporal Burton.P

7cav.us

Public Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Lots of injuries to care for.
• Lots of contact.
• Ambitious and violent plan.
• Great comms with Atlas 7.
• Fun times insulting MRAPS.
• Serenaded Dubois.

Cons:

• n/a

 

[Kastor.K]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Corporal Kastor.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Crapachi.M
Private First Class Lacasse.P
Private Bishop.C
Corporal Derry.B
Specialist Rodahl.S
Corporal Liber.N
Specialist Dio.B
Private First Class Whitehead.B

Pros:

• Intense combat at the mosque area
• Good hold on the SE mosque corner and N-NE enemy groups
• Good QRF detection by squad and distance engagement at ORP
• No black casualties
• Good proactive resupply from ATLAS-3 during engagements at mosque and ORP
• VIKING-6 pulled us out of the mosque as soon as possible
• Great air support from SPARROW, excellent gun runs!

Cons:

• Unable to get assistance from 7 or ATLAS 1/2 at the mosque, even prior to VIKING-3 mass cas
• Too long of a drive to ORP, should've been half of that, tops
• Completely unsuitable vehicles for the tasking, both VIKING and ATLAS teams
• Unsuitable vehicles affecting planning, forcing us to "Rambo" into the middle of uncleared, enemy held urban area

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas - 3
Element Leader: Corporal Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Prescott.J
Corporal Maco.D

Public Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Mission Completed

Cons:

• It felt like Atlas 3 was an after thought in the Assult plan, mostly as i were not at the Leaders Recon.
• Boring and ruff time in the back of the convoy.
• Slow unorthodox vehicle.
• Loosing the box carrier and resupply outside of the main objective.
• I (Lucander) felt that i was not given the freedom to lead by 7.
• We felt stuck, as security, insted of being mobil, as resupply and transport needs to be to function.
• We were disapointed that we were not used as EOD, as the mission sounded like it would be EOD, when reading the mission bref.
• I feel that we as a Battalion needs to streamline what Atlas 3 does and what Atlas 4 does, as everyone seems to have difrent opinions on it.

 

[Kinser.E]

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[Kinser.E]

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