AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Intrepid Thunder | C/1-7 FTX 2OCT2022

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Intrepid Thunder | C/1-7 FTX
Number Within Campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TS 1
Date of Combat Mission: 02OCT2022
Time of Combat Mission: 1900Z
Mission OIC: Major Phoenix
Mission Controller: Segreant Beiter.A // Sergeant Stewart.AJ

Attendents:
Major Phoenix
Colonel Tharen.R
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
First Lieutenant Spiers.M
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
First Segreant Jupiter.J
Master Sergeant Centeno.JP
Staff Sergeant Mackey.A
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Staff Sergeant Couvillion.T
Sergeant Trunkman.K
Segreant Beiter.A
Sergeant Harvey.S
Sergeant Stewart.AJ
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Novak.I
Corporal Wisser.C
Corporal Stone.J
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Norman.B
Corporal Saint.D
Corporal Sparrow.P
Corporal Goel.B
Corporal Bates.J
Corporal Miller.DC
Corporal Dunn.W
Corporal Phillips.B
Corporal Zeoli.D
Corporal Cobblestone.G
Corporal Crapachi.M
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Dohun.T
Specialist Westcott.R
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Korwel.J
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Lee.H
Private First Class Turn.J
Private First Class Chandler.A
Private Walker.T

 

[Mazinski.H]

Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Mazinski.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Specialist Winters.R
Corporal Saint.D

Pros

• Good medical work overall
• Strong showing for self-aid from troopers
• Good amount of medical

Cons

• Long setup time, long walks in the dark
• Surgical was tied to vehicles and facilities. We had no vehicles or facilities

 

[Mackey.A]

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Mackey.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Staff Sergeant Mackey.A
• Colonel Tharen.R
• Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
• Corporal Miller.DC
• Specialist Xinos.T
• Specialist Dohun.T
• Specialist Westcott.R
• Specialist Bishop.C
• Sergeant Harvey.S
• Specialist Turner.L

Pros:

• Drop was beautifully done
• Good comms
• FTL's were quick to step up when SL went down and troopers were quick to step up when there FTLs went down.
• MISFIT 1, destroyed 1 x convoy destroying a platoon sized element, established a breach point. Destroyed 2x Vehicles and pushed and cleared multiple buildings and quickly destroyed one last vehicle and section sized element before the mission ended.

Cons:

• Should have specified a spread for the multiple ship drop so troopers didn't fall on top of each other.

 

[Spiers.M]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Spiers.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Pros

• Chaotic op with lots of contact and fun
• Incredible inter-squad teamwork and communication
• Lots of flexibility amongst squads, S/O to MISFIT-2 for their physical exercise
• Incredible combat effectiveness from the light infantry squad
• Violence of action

Cons

• Slightly slow start-up/step-off (partly our fault)
• Chaotic comms/flexible plans probably created some confusion amongst squads

 

[Goel.B]

Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: Corporal Goel.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Goel.B
Private First Class Turn.J
Private Walker.T

Pros

• Plenty of medical work
• Troopers self aiding was on point
• Good CCP positions were appreciated
• Firefight at the end was really fun. Shot down a platoon.

Cons

• Could use more 6 liners

 

[Baruch.J]

Element Callsign: Grizzly-1/Buffalo-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Baruch.J
Corporal Sparrow.P
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
Specialist Korwel.J

Pros

• Insertion phase was well executed.
• Mission concept was well received by everyone
• Comms were initially pretty good (until acre and disconnect issues began)

Cons

• We had a number of Acre Issues, that reduced our effectiveness.
• A number of the pilots experienced crashes to desktop, which further compounded the ACRE issues.
• Initial loadouts were not optimal. E.g. Sparrow was assigned IHADDS and no NVG. (As such we had to change loadouts in order to fly the Chinook for the initial task that we were given)

Note

• Would advise discussing potential LZs for insertion/resupply during briefing to aid in situations where we have ACRE issues.
• Sparrow-1's mission could have been assigned to a DAP. (Please use the DAP)
• Aside from using the DAPs in place of the sparrow, and updating the loadouts. Our overall experience during the mission was very positive.

 

[Centeno.JP]

Element Callsign: Misfit-5
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Centeno.JP

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Me, myself, and I.

Pros:

• Drop was beautifully done
• Great flexibility from the platoon
• Fantastic communications between squad leaders, and (IMO) platoon staff.

Cons:

• There was definite confusion, and hectic plans made for hectic actions.
• Some top down communication issues; a lot of radio traffic. Just requires some basic optimization.

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: Misfit-4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Saint.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Staff Sergeant Couvillion.T
Sergeant Trunkman.K
Corporal Wisser.C
Corporal Stone.J
Corporal Holiday.T
Private First Class Chandler.A

Pros:

• great drop
• 4/2 displayed masterful work on their gun systems.
• 4/2 delivered outstanding fire power
• convoy destroyed with rapid fire and load capabilities of the M3 Maaws, suppressive fire power of the 240B pairs, and 1st squad engagement into the lead vehicle
• Hostage situation was taken care of, the Russian bad guy peaked his head out too far and found out

Cons:

• mass confusion on where to ambush the convoy
• we chose to set up an ambush in-between an enemy base and the road where the convoy would be (put us in an L formation )
• 4/2 was misused as an assaulting element into the main compound, limiting our potential to siege the enemy
• FF incident, due to jumbled assault lines, and enemy being within melee range of 1st squads bravo fire team, our line engaged enemy and friendly contacts amidst the conflict
• miscommunications on where to put the hostages, lead to delays and us taking extended contact
• Gun team was unable to deal with critical threat firing SPG9 rockets at the squad. However this was due to view distance setting and not a skill or reaction delay

 

[Norman.B]

Element Callsign: Misfit-7
Element Leader: Corporal Norman.B



Pros

• Excellent work by medics.
• Good comms on 15.
• Great communication with platoon staff.
• Excellent buddy-aid from troopers. Keep up the good work!

Cons

• Long walk between DZ and OBJ.
• A combination of 7 being under heavy fire, and vague calls for medical from other elements made giving medics full 6-lines difficult.
• That being said, I'll do better with the 6-lines next time.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Corporal Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Sergeant Guerra.J
• Sergeant Novak.I
• Corporal Bates.J
• Corporal Cobblestone.G
• Corporal Crapachi.M
• Corporal Dunn.W
• Corporal Zeoli.D
• Specialist Lee.H

Pros:

• Airborne Operations
  • Very well briefed
  • Execution near perfect
• Contact
  • Consistent
  • Challenging
  • Plentiful
• Communication
  • In-Squad communication exquisite
  • Platoon level solid
• Movement
  • Complex orders given complex situation
• Mission Accomplished

Cons:

• Overall Planning
  • Objective lanes, Phase Lines, LOA, etc. designated before insertion
• Hostage Handling
  • Provide better plan on handling POWs
  • Pre-Designate LZ, Handling Squad, Collection Point, etc.
• Operation Timing
  • FTX took place concurrent with Bravo Troop SP
  • De-Conflict timing to boost numbers (medics included)
• Attendance
  • Always would like to see more turn-out from Charlie

 

[Derry.B]

LOCKED

 

[Derry.B]

Assigned Groves.A For processing

 

[Groves.A]

S1 Operations processed.