AAR AAR | Campaign Phoenix Rising | Operation Sharp Talons

[Beiter.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Sharp Talons
Campaign of Combat Mission: 1/3
Number Within Campaign: 1
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 02DEC22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300Z
Mission OIC: Captain Burton.P
Mission Controller: Sergeant Beiter.A

Attendees:
Captain Burton.P
Warrant Officer 1 Sinca.J
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Novak.I
Sergeant Sam.T
Sergeant Stewart.AJ
Sergeant Beiter.A
Corporal Wisser.C
CPL.Villmarsson.L "Plan B"
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Westcott.R
Corporal Oldham.G
Corporal Zaren.T
Corporal Dunn.W
Corporal Vincent.L
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Goel.B
Corporal Harvey.S
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist Renard.S
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Dujakovic.R
Specialist Kiser.C
Specialist Hilberg.A
Specialist Thumper.N
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Highman.J
Specialist Harvey.C
Specialist Entreri.R
Specialist Savage.C
Private First Class Bethea.A
Private First Class Thomas.M

Retired:
First Lieutenant Gann.T
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M

If I missed anyone, please let me know

 

[Sutodoreh.W]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Infidel-1
Element Leader: WO1.Sutodoreh.W

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
WO1.Sutodoreh.W "Scooter"
CPL.Villmarsson.L "Plan B"

Pros:

• Fun
• Great comms with 5/6
• Bison flight did a great job reacting to my requests and hitting targets/providing ISR, absolutely no complaints
• Got to use a ZSU-23 gun in the final objective to wipe a squad during mass cas

Cons:

• Died while using said ZSU-23 gun to wipe enemy squad

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Corporal Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Kiser.C
Staff Sergeant Saint.Z
Private First Class Bethea.A
Specialist Renard.S
Pros:

• Good squad cohesion
• Good time for the OP
• Fun mission

Cons:

• Slow tempo.
• Lack of violence of action and momentum
• Lots of unnecessary movement
  

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Bison-1
Element Leader: Specialist Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Thumper.N

Pros:

• A lot of work to do.
• ISR was challenging with no Co-Pilot, but engaging and fun.
• A lot of fire missions, even though we had to mark targets ourselves and engage.
• Challenging flight given the light level.
• Good comms between Infidel and Bison.

Cons:

• A Cav Pilot failed to represent the Cav properly in the eyes of public players, and it was called out by public players in the AAR, i.e. doing their own thing instead of following flight lead.

 

[Highman.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader: Specialist Highman.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Turn.J

Public Personnel Within Element:
Fat Otaku

Pros:

• Good communications within unit and with Misfit-7
• Fun Op. Well-conceived and organized
• Pubber enjoyed our semi-casual yet structured approach for a relaxed and enjoyable time
• No black tags for our team. Opportunities to conduct field surgery away from a vehicle, some complex red-tag care needed, but mostly ambulatory patients needing routine care

Cons:

• Lack of 6-Lines sent up to Misfit-7 meant that we often had incomplete and inaccurate reports to work from that led to less efficient casualty treatment
• Lots of walking and downtime, not much action for medical team

 

[Dujakovic.R]

Element Callsign: Misfit-5


Pros:

Good Platoon comms
Good air to ground comms
Good CAS

Cons:

lots of non SL with strobes
Blatant disregard for noise discipline, with some even being heard to state "yeah don't bother with it"

 

[Holiday.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: CPL.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Harvey.C
SPC.Entreri.R


Pros:

• Great team to work with
• Good comms when working on patients

Cons:

• Pretty slow at start
• Lack of fractures for the surgeon to work on

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-7
Element Leader: Sergeant Sam.T


Pros:

• Personally, I enjoy long walks through the woods in the night under NODs, so this was a fantastic OP, in my opinion.
• Great flexibility from the Atlas teams as the platoon conducted movement through the AO.
• Plenty of work for Atlas-2.
• Good communication all around regarding team movement and CCP establishment.
• Assisting with ground-to-air comms led to steady radio work for me, probably helping stave off the monotony of long ruck marching.

Cons:

• Low amount of work for Atlas-1, despite my efforts to distribute calls between the two teams.
• A high level of platoon movement made facilitating reinserts difficult.
• Coordination with platoon movement could have been improved. On several occasions, the medical teams ended up being the rear security element for the platoon, which is suboptimal.

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED
Assigned OBrien.T for processing

 

[OBrien.T]

S1 operation processed