AAR ARMA 3 | October Warfare Wednesday 2022 | Warfare Wednesday 162

[Narramoor.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Warfare Wednesday 162
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign October Warfare Wednesday 2022
Number Within Campaign: 3/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 20OCT22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Specialist Narramoor.A
Mission Controller: Major Hobbs.T

Attendees:
Major Hobbs.T
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Second Lieutenant Derry.B
Second Lieutenant Gerrish.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Van Alstine.R
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Sergeant Beiter.A
Sergeant Fields.Q
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Harvey.S
Sergeant Novak.I
Corporal Barone.E
Corporal Bates.J
Corporal Davidson.J
Corporal Goel.B
Corporal Phillips.B
Corporal Sam.T
Corporal Santoyo.T
Corporal Sparrow.P
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Zeoli.D
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Dujakovic.R
Specialist Kiser.C
Specialist Morton.Q
Specialist Narramoor.A
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Westcott.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Zander.D
Private First Class Crowley.T
Private First Class Savage.C
Private Albright.J
Private Thomas.M
Recruit Mo.A

If I have missed anyone out feel free to edit this post, or contact me via Discord/Forum PM

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: LONGSHOT-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Specialist Morton.Q

Retired Cav Members/ Non Members

• Robihunn
• DISCH RCT Papa.A

Pros:

• Good movement and coms within the squad
• Good coms with BANDIT-6 and 5 for SITREPS and updating the battlefield
• Confirmed destroying 3 waves of Russian armor units and 20 plus enemy infantry

Cons:

• No real cons other than needing more AT for incoming QRF
• Adding a special loadout for LONGSHOT so we don't have to build an entire kit on the fly

CONGRATS STAFF SERGEANT ABATE.L FOR YOUR 200th OP!!!​

 

[Dujakovic.R]

ELEMENT CALLSIGN: REAPER

ELEMENT LEADER: SPC.Dujakovic.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Reaper-2: WO1.Wulf.C

Pros:

Had fun
First time using drones, very effective.

Cons:

N o.

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: CPL. Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• 2LT. Derry.B
• SGM. Schmidt.A
• WO1. Hamm.C
• CPL. Sparrow.P

Pros:

• Had Fun
• Non-stop inserts

Cons:

• Not Much Shooting

 

[Goel.B]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Goel.B


Pros:

• Good comms on medical
• Good action
• Killed two helicopters
• Godfather was a beast helping with perms

Cons:

• Low attendance of medical personnel
• Platoon movement scattered
• Platoon net was a complete mess

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-1
Element Leader: Corporal Sam.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
• Corporal Zeoli.D
• Corporal Davidson.J
• Specialist Westcott.R
• Private First Class Crowley.T

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel

• GarfieldMuhammad

Pros:

• Lots of fun enjoying the chaos! Everyone enjoyed the operation across the board!
• Several armor kills, definitely a pro considering the understrength nature of our squad.
• I think everyone in our squad shot down at least one red air asset, another pro for the squad!
• An excellent succession of command when actual and 2IC went down.
• Fire commands and TRPs were dished out excellently from FTLs and received well by the individual squad members.

Cons:

• Everyone noted that IDF sucks; it was very accurate from the get-go.
• One trooper noted a lot of lag, possibly due to the number of assets or IDF.
• Lots of "ring around the rosy" instructions just before Endex leading to some frustration in the squad.
• Bandit-1's initial push into the town was subpar. Many casualties and the loss of 1IC and 2IC lead to some delay in breaking contact.
• IR usage (strobe and chem lights) continued after NODs were found on the enemy and IR discipline was called by -6.
• Platoon Comms was a mess tonight. Lots of talking over one another, responses from incorrect callsigns, and a lack of "break", "wait" and "wait out" calls.

 

[Thomas.M]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-5
Pros:

• Narramoor was insanely patient and kind with me learning the role
• Awesome communication with Buffalo for resupply
• Long shot was super responsive on the platoon net and identifying enemy threats
• I was able to run to every squad leader a few times and they were super responsive with ace reports and understood me asking for them
• Buffalo did a great job anticipating resupply requests and went above and beyond
• White boards!!!
• I heard SLs calling out threats as they were called over the net to their squads, super awesome situational awareness

Cons:

• I made a mess of the platoon comms
• 5 needs a vehicle, I ran on foot a lot of places and felt like I could’ve been way more effective with even an ATV
• Thoughts on using logistics channel for ACE reports? And the 5 calling SLs up to the Atlas net and having them report over that? It would’ve cleared some of Platoon net.
• 5 needs to spend time manning prepackaged drops based on the ammo and kit set outs of the platoon. It should be made in conjunction with Buffalo in a "push-pack" type of format so you can call to Buffalo: Need one of push-pack A (Medical) 2 of B (Anti tank, just missiles and launchers) etc.
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  Thank you everyone for being patient with me tonight!!

 

[Fields.Q]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas - 3
Element Leader: Sergeant Fields.Q

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Public player


Pros:

• Movement was fluid and organized

Cons:

• Low attendance of Atlas 3

 

[Abate.L]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Abate.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Gerrish.T
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Corporal Santoyo.T
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Kiser.C
Specialist Mac.S
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Zander.D

Public Personnel Within Element:
J.Bag
Dr.Weird
Falmo

Pros:

• Challenging environment.
• Fun overall scope of mission.
• Well executed movement from platoon and support assets.
• Seamless succession of command.
• Good MOUT work and building clearing.
• Effective use of force multipliers and trooper equipment.
• Fantastic reinserts from buffalo.
• Operation wide stepping up into leadership.
• Top work from longshot in softening enemy positions.
• Opportunity to utilise fortify tool.

Cons:

• No directly passed down recon reports.
• Disappointing ending to the overall operation.
• Some enemy spawns were very close to our perimeter.
• AI favouring use of 40mm. Utilised in a rapid fire way.
• Difficulty factor became overwhelming at times.
• Due to time constraints the defence plan was left untouched and missed out on utilsing ATLAS 3.
• Endex on major reinsert.

200 down, onto the next. Thank you all for making this the place it is.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-3
Element Leader: Corporal Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Chief Warrant Officer 2 Van Alstine.R
• Sergeant Guerra.J
• Sergeant Harvey.S
• Sergeant Novak.I
• Corporal Bates.J
• Specialist Xinos.T
• Private First Class Savage.C
• Recruit Mo.A
• Corporal Edmonds.D (DISCH)

Pros:

• Contact
  • Consistent pressure is nice
• Inner-Squad Communication & Battle Drills & Succession
  • Having a squad of bandit made all of these superb
• Longshot
  • Longshot used in the proper way
  • Critical to the survivability in the town
• Mission Accomplished?

Cons:

• IDF
  • Complete wipe of the squad (and most of the platoon) and nothing that could've been done to avoid it
• Overwhelming Odds
  • Tempo off that saw platoons of armor throwing themselves into an understrength motorized Bandit PL
  • Vehicles given useless against all but infantry
• Lack of ISR
  • Entire enemy fortifications not communicated on map/tracker/etc.
• ORP
  • Too close for a P2P operation
  • Even still, a BMD ambushing the platoon at the ORP with little ability or equipment to react is not fun
• 25 Bandit-3 Dead
  • Indicative of the above
• Endex
  • Weak & abrupt end

 

[Groves.A]

LOCKED

 

[Groves.A]

Assigned Groves.A for processing.

 

[Groves.A]

S1 Operations processed.