AAR AAR ARMA 3 | January Warfare Wednesday 2023 - Warfare Wednesday 171

[Sparrow.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 171
Number Within Campaign: 1/3
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 11JAN23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: 2LT. Mackey.A
Mission Controller: Sergeant Beiter.A
Corporal Sparrow.P

Attendants:
Brigadier General Tharen.R
Captain Burton.P
Second Lieutenant Mackey.A
Warrant Officer 1 Butcher.B
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Fields.Q
Specialist Fields.M
Sergeant Beiter.A
Sergeant Norman.B
Sergeant Sam.T
Corporal Cazarotti.V
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Sparrow.P
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Westcott.R
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Albright.J
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Crowley.T
Specialist Dio.B
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Dujakovic.R
Specialist Fox.Z
Specialist Hilberg.A
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Narramoor.A
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Tucker.C
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Recruit Seymore.T
Recruit Revells.D
Recruit Shingledecker.K

 

[Zaren.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: SIERRA-3
Element Leader: Corporal Trygve Zaren
Element Members:
Specialist Xinos.T

Pros:

• Operations Plan was Solid, Operations brief was good!
• Solid Performance by gunner, took out at least 6 infantry squads, 2 armed technicals, 4 bunkers, and 1 IFV, 1 Attack Helicopter.
• Good Coordination between infantry and vehicles during the initial landing, movements, and assault on 4th and 5th objectives.
• Overall a good operation

Cons:

• Lost rear security at 2nd objective since we pulled away all Security elements resulting in Sierra's and medical elements being outflanked.
• Didn't get Resupplied until the vehicle went black on Ammo close to the end of the operation even though ACE Reports were frequently sent.
• Lots of overstepping on Long Range 03 with over 10 Callsigns on the same channel makes it chaotic and impossible to get radio traffic through at certain moments.

 

[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:
CPL.Cazarotti.V

Non Cav
Format
Swan

Pros:

• Great team to work with
• Great comms within the squad
• Great response time, no black tags while PTs under Atlas care
• Beach landing went great
• Good mix of complex fractures

Cons:

• Radio comms were pretty muddy when getting Atlas teams dispatched
• Intermittent frame issues
• PTs leaving while still under Atlas care
• Atlas teams left behind multiple times, while either resupplying or working on PTs

 

[Dixon.E]

Element Callsign: SIERRA-1
Element Leader: Specialist Dixon.E
Element Members:
Corporal Velasquez.J
Warrant Officer 1 Butcher.B

Pros:

• Great op, planning vise and performance.
• Coordinating with the smaller squads was great.
• Team worked exceptionally and the teamwork was flawless.
• Overall it was a great op and a great start to the year. Thanks a lot zues!

Cons:

• Radio comms were very hectic and a lot of overstepping at times.
• A bit more contacts for the sierras, we saw a decent amount of contact but in general it was good.

 

[Villmarsson.L]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Eagle-1 and Eagle-2
Element Leader: WO1.Villmarsson.L
Element Members:
WO1.Sutodoreh.W
RCT.Revells.D

Pros:

• Fun op it was a good pace
• New RCT hade a lot of fun for the first op

Cons:

• Woude like that infidel-1 and 2 whoud have there own channal for air to ground
• The budget was to low need more jets and a new carrirer

 

[Sam.T]

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: Sergeant Sam.T
Element Members:
Specialist Albright.J
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Winters.R

Pros:

• A good amount of surgical fractures! Lots of time with casualties for the surgeon compared to other OPs.
• Decent amount of work overall and few good multiple-casualty events.
• The team members tonight were terrific! Both public players and billeted medics were on the ball!
• No black tags under care tonight.
• Inter-team comms were solid.
• A lot more gun time tonight than usual tonight thanks to the allocation as security

Cons:

• Got left behind the platoon several times, including during our resupply.
• Communication with -7 and the platoon as a whole seemed very rocky tonight.
• Lots of patients running off, sometimes several times. This seemed to be more due to the chaos at specific points and some newer players being under care.
• Our team was nearly Blue-on-Blued by a friendly fire team. Unsure how this happened as we were moving with our vehicle, as directed by 7, and behind the friendly forces relative to the advanced.
• One surgical patient was zeus-healed while under the knife.
• The decision to allocate a medical team to hold a flank in lieu of reallocating a squad lead to several missed calls.

 

[Rodahl.S]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: SIERRA-2
Element Leader: Specialist Rodahl.S
Element Members:
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Specialist Dio.B

Pros:

• Fun .
• Fantastic crew.
• Good response from Zeus with repair perms.
• Excellent C&C with Viking 5
  • Different radio net for vics?
  • A lot of activity and movements for flank protection.
• Superb pre-planning
  • We had AP and SBFs with dismount points before we got briefed.
• Seemed like good cooperation between a lot of the leadership elements.
  • Support-flexing on demand.
  • Rotations in place.
  • Omitting top for brevities.
• OpOrd in place ahead of time.
• Great start to the new year!

Cons:

• Resupply by Zeus, admittedly in the interest of time
• The first explosion on the beach?
• Optics of vehicles. I recognize amphibious capabilities, but they are in general terrible.

 

[Hamm.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Excellent Op with excellent OPORD (one of the best) and prep. Great mission and great start to new Cav year.
• Carrier Ops are always super-fun.
• Really enjoyed the presence and utilization of the Amphibious Assaults ships greatly and the re-spawn point being located there.
• A lot of stick-time for Buff-1 Pilot, doing re-inserts.

Cons:

• Lack of Alpha Co. rotary attendance. No BISON attack helo and no BUFFALO Crew.
• CAS comms: May want to consider using 2 different channels when using 2 infidels to de-conflict comms.
• BUFFALO-1 was curiously not utilized for logistics resupply.

 

[Fields.Q]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Viking -7
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Fields.Q

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros:

• Great response time, no black tags while PTs under Atlas care
• medics got some combat off the beaches

Cons:

• Radio coms with 6 (died/disconnected) and 5 were an issue
• The dispatches for atlas were bad on my part.
• I had to many radios going
• Atlas teams left behind multiple times, while either resupplying or working on PTs

 

[Dujakovic.R]

Element Callsign: VIKING-5

Pros:
Good opord by 6.
Sierra's did amazing work as support assets.

Cons:
Radio was cluttered

 

[Norman.B]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Norman.B
Element Members:
Corporal Westcott.R
Specialist Tucker.C
Specialist Crowley.T
Recruit Shingledecker.K
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Fox.Z
Recruit Seymore.T

Non cav members:
Wildabeast
Expendable Joe

Pros:

• Excellent operation
• Great OPORD
• Great inter squad comms

Cons:

• Troopers were lone-wolfing
• Blue on blue from troopers
• LR Comms were messy

 

[Hilberg.A]

Element Callsign: INFIDEL-1
Element Leader: Specialist Hilberg.A
Element Members:
Deestroyer

Pros:

• Phenomenal OP. Attention detail was superb, but not the least bit surprising.
• Comms were good between 6 and INFIDELs.
• Minor instances of comms being stepped on, but overall comms were solid between EAGLE flight and INFIDELs.
• Good use of airspace, deconfliction and coordination.

Cons:

• None from the INFIDEL side.

 

[Xinos.T]

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[Xinos.T]

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