AAR ARMA 3 | September Warfare Wednesday 2022 | Warfare Wednesday 159

[Hobbs.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Warfare Wednesday 158
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign September Warfare Wednesday 2022
Number Within Campaign: 3/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 28SEP22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Lieutenant Colonel LaCombe.M
Mission Controller: Major Hobbs.T

Lieutenant Colonel LaCombe.M
Major Hobbs.T
Second Lieutenant Derry.B
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Sullivan.A
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Novak.I
Sergeant Stewart.AJ
Corporal Bane.K
Corporal Bates.J
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Dunn.W
Corporal Goel.B
Corporal Norman.B
Corporal Phillips.B
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Dylan Jeremiah Olson
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Berg.J
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Hilberg.A
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Morton.Q
Specialist Villmarsson.L
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Santoyo.T
Specialist Sutodoreh.W
Specialist Whitfield.L
Specialist Zander.D
Private First Class Crowley.T
Private Tobias.A
Private Dixon.E
Private Ryker.C

 

[Berg.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Eagle Flight
Element Leader: SPC.Berg.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Berg.J (EAGLE 1)
PVT.Dixon.E (EAGLE 2)


Pros:

• Great communications with the FAC element.
• Mission concept was really good, the situation looked dire from the air and the ambience was felt.
• Great air-to-air action from Eagle 2

Cons:

• Framerate towards the end of the mission prevented us from flying over the AO.
• ACRE issues at some point? unsure.

 

[Whitfield.L]

Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: Specialist Whitfield.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Sullivan.A
Corporal Velasquez.J
Specialist Whitfield.L

Pros:

• Solid Op, Great Radio Communications & adaptability by multiple elements throughout the Operation
• Bandit-7 did good dispatching Atlas-2 to more basic calls being that we were novice to advanced medical
• Lots of banter and independent thinking by Atlas-2 Team filling gaps where required

Cons:

• Callsigns & ACRE borked throughout Op. Medical Perms revoked on Death
• CCP came under fire, but expected for this Op. Got to shoot people but was a medic.
• 1 Black Tag under our care attempting to deal with a comminuted fracture

 

[Wulf.C]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Constantine Wulf

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Dylan Jeremiah Olson
Second Lieutenant Bethany Derry
Specialist William Sutodoreh

Pros:

• Fun op, we were busy, LZ's were nice and hot.
• Good internal and external comms and coordination.
• We engaged and took out a lot of targets with miniguns, including BTR's and a Mi-24.
• Infantry did an incredible job rescuing us when we went down.

Cons:

• Not having pre-made 7th Cav Ammo resupply boxes is a nightmare for both air crew and zeus in having to manually load boxes.
• Tanoa is great...but a lag magnet...should be avoided.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-4
Element Leader: Corporal Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Sergeant Harvey.S
• Specialist Kel.S
• Staff Sergeant Wolf.G (RET)

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• jjtx02

Pros:

• Contact
  • Large Force
  • Competent Marksmanship
• Strong Position
  • 100+ Kills total
  • Covered retreat of platoon
• Mission Accomplished

Cons:

• Platoon Communication
  • Basic BRCC
• Platoon ALAMO
  • ALAMO not sustainable
• Slot Hijack
  • Slotting into roles that you don't intend to fill the role of

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: BANDIT-5
Element Leader: Specialist Narramoor.A

Pros

• Good hectic fun, everyone across the board saw lots of action today! Props to the mission maker
• Excellent sustainment from Atlas and Buffalo-1
• Excellent initiative from element leads

Cons

• Lots of black tags, in hindsight fall back should have been called earlier to maintain cohesion.
• Both 5 and 6 went down at once
• Lots of medical perm issues. After death, people would lose their doctor perms
• Lots of the typical Arma issues, vehicles blowing up, helicopters flipping

 

[Norman.B]

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

Element Callsign: BANDIT-1
Element Leader: Corporal Norman.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Zeoli.D
Corporal Dunn.W
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Morton.Q
Corporal Crapachi.M

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Thengal
Pros

• Excellent Operation
• Good combat and reactions from individual members

Cons

• Disconnecting FTLs made unit cohesion challenging
• Medics were sometimes disruptive to squad leadership

 

[Goel.B]

Element Callsign: BANDIT-7
Element Leader: Corporal Goel.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Bane.K (Atlas 1 team member)
Specialist Villmarsson.L (Atlas 1 team member)
Specialist Whitfield.L (Atlas 2 lead)

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Pvt. Destroyer (Atlas 1 lead)
Pros:

• Solid and fun op
• Medical teams felt they were effective
• Lots of medical work. Surgery was abundant.
• Enemy jet getting stuck on a tree was hilarious
• Solid teamwork between the units and very good comms.
• We got marked positions this time

Cons:

• Yellow casul being passed as red
• No pharmacy items on medical crates, only fluids.
• Server issues all around. Framerate, people being dropped and call signs getting mixed.
• Medical perms gone when dead.

 

[Stewart.AJ]

Element Callsign: BANDIT-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Stewart.AJ

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Bates.J
Specialist Dougan.J
Corporal Zaren.T
Sergeant Guerra.J
Private First Class Crowley.T
Private Ryker.C
Specialist Lee.H
Sergeant Novak.I


Pros

• Hot and fast start, good inter team comms and cross covered sectors
• Enjoyed the final stand at the Fall back position
• Good fallback from first position

Cons

• Immense amount of red air to the point of multiple gun runs on our position
• We were sent to watch the flank on the first point, but had no real contact, so it was a wee bit too quiet so the guys got antsy.

 

[Derry.B]

LOCKED

 

[Derry.B]

Assigned Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ Operation Processed!