AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | WFW 173

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 173
Number Within Campaign: 3/3
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 25JAN23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1700)
Mission OIC: 2LT. Mackey.A
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A

Attendants:
Brigadier General Tharen.R
Major Hobbs.T
Captain Burton.P
Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Mackey.A
Warrant Officer 1 Berg.J
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Warrant Officer 1 Butcher.B
Warrant Officer 1 Currier.M
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Sparrow.P
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
First Sergeant Jupiter.J
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Fields.Q
Staff Sergeant Maco.D
Sergeant Norman.B
Sergeant Sam.T
Sergeant Whitehead.B
Corporal Boyd.M
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Narramoor.A
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Westcott.R
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Albright.J
Specialist Crowley.T
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Dujakovic.R
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Masnec.G
Specialist Tucker.C
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Papa.A
Private Brian.F
Reservist Toliman.K


OIC AAR Comments:

PRO :

• Saw some really good team control, excellent use of fire commands from the team to the squad level.
• Good Communication from all Call Signs. Good use of SPOTREPs and SITREPs.
• Breaking contact went pretty well. Multiple instances of needing to move the platoon back a couple hundred meters, dig in and prepare for the next assault.
• Some excellent close in CAS Calls, some danger close.
• Good use of CCP's, Tactical Resupply from Buffalo. Resupply's kept the platoon fighting. Fantastic use of airdropping cargo from the UH-60

CONS:

• Not enough ACE Reports. It was basically a 2 hour fire fight, used our discretion to call in resupply but could of been timed better with active reporting.
• Not all danger close CAS missions were briefed to mission to commander. Led to some confusion on what was hitting near friendly positions.
• 7 wasn't equipped with a short range, led to some un need cross talk on 03, instead of command short range.
• Late OPORD publication. Amount of contact just felt overwhelming for the majority of the mission. Like a tidal wave of enemies that just kept coming.

 

[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.Albright.J
SPC.Crowley.T
PVT.Brian.F

Pro:
Good comms between Atlas teams and 7
Team enjoyed the op
Good amount of medical work
Echoing of treatments
Great team to work with

Con:
Exfil fell apart
Long periods of downtime
Had issues getting troopers to cycle off of the line to the Atlas Teams

 

[Fields.Q]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT - 7
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Fields.Q

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
None

Pro:
Good comms between 7 and 5
Good amount of medical work for the atlas teams
Self initiated medical treatment
Enjoyed the fluid movement from the operation

Con:
I would like to see a command vic for 7 to help with stranglers

 

[Dujakovic.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: LIGHTNING
Element Leader: SPC.Dujakovic.R


Pro:
Got to shoot
Good CAS missions
Zeus was very nice in providing me with a shiny F-35!

Con:
Nah.

 

[Berg.J]

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

Element Callsign: EAGLE-1 / TITAN-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Jeran "Binks" Berg

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Mike "Nines" Currier (TITAN-1 Phase)


Pros:
Good communications between aviation and Infidel despite clutter.
Many effective strikes, all aircraft were involved in round-the-clock fire missions which were carried out with amazing precision.
Plenty of aircraft in the air and everything went relatively smoothly.
The C-130 phase was well executed from Titan 1's perspective despite being chaotic.
Fantastic mission from Beiter as always!

Cons:
Comms were very cluttered but that was to be expected. Everything went relatively smoothly nonetheless.
We seem to have been having issues with clipping through the carrier deck recently.

 

[Villmarsson.L]

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

Element Callsign: Eagle-2
Element Leader: WO1.Villmarsson.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Hobbs.T


Pro:
Goods team work between all airframs with strikes.
good extract for base with the c-130.
good budy lase from sparrow.
exelant work to u hobbs.

no cons!

 

[Turn.J]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: Specialist Turn.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Masnec.G
Specialist Winters.R
Staff Sergeant Maco.D

Pro:

• Plenty of medical work
• Good communication within the team
• Good communication between teams
• Orders were echoed consistently
• CTAB marks were used when comms broke down in one instance to convey a casualty call. Ended up being a mass casualty incident which we were able to respond to. Fantastic use of CTAB.
• Both teams aided in loading casualties into Titans during exfil. Teams performed diligently under fire to ensure everyone made it onto the birds.
• Great fun, thank you Beiter!

Con:

• Exfil needed to be faster.

 

[Currier.M]

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

Element Callsign: SPARROW-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Mike Currier

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Roy Bloggins

Pro:
Great work among the crew
Never a dull moment during this operation; definitely one of my favorites
Alpha Company showed what we could really do today!

Con:
Clutter of comms on the CAS net.

 

[Norman.B]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Norman.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Jupiter.J
Corporal Westcott.R
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Tucker.C
Corporal Narramoor.A
SPC.Ewing.R
Private First Class Papa.A

Non cav personnel:

HP Computer
RCT.Krupa
Faleur

Pros:
Excellent FTLs
Killed at least a company
Excellent battle drills from teams

Cons:
OPFOR should have been fewer and more skilled/strategic to feel more Milsim.
I need more practice managing Sierra

 

[Boyd.M]

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

Element Callsign: Eagle-3
Element Leader: Corporal Boyd.M




Pro:
-Fun op, ran mostly air superiority
-excellent work from all fixed wing assets, some great calls for fire


Con:
-Radio chatter on 08 was really bad at times, lots of people stepping on each other, or cutting in for trivial comms during a nine line or fire mission. This was pretty disappointing to see.
-The Super Hornet has lots of issues. I find that once I RTB to refuel it glitches and wont turn back on after full sequence startup. Had to switch to F35 at one point.

 

[Hamm.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 Hamm.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Sparrow.P
Reservist Toliman.K

Pros:

• Interesting and enjoyable OP, for sure....tons of fun. Great job mission maker.
• Re-inserts and re-supply efforts and strategies were A+.
• BUFFALO-1 Teamwork was fantastic and a great representation of the excellence Alpha Company strives for. Great work C/P Sparrow.P
• Airdrops were decidedly preferential and utilized by BUFFALO-1 due to a) Safety due to very hot LZ redness/danger, b) LZ obstructions, c) ability at low flight level to quickly airdrop re-supply without parachute/wind drift and quick max-power egress. This was an excellent and advantageous tactic and produced great results for Ground Forces.
• CSAR of downed SPARROW-1 crew was wildly complex and challenging, but quickly executed by the team. The extremely tight, confined-area location of the downed SPARROW-1 bird, on the side of ridge line, with slope, obstacles and the extremely hot enemy contact made it nearly untenable, however, BUFFALO-1 continued and was able to extract the downed aircrew. Hoist hook was very briefly contemplated but was deemed unsuitable as BUFFALO-1 was taking damage from extremely aggressive enemy contact and therefore unable to hover. Excellent team work here.
• Excellent Crew Chief and door gun work by Reservist Toliman.K, who continually provided excellent overhead cover fire and aircraft obstacle clearance reports.
• At extract, BUFFALO-1 was unfortunately downed by some kind of unknown parachute drops from overhead, entangling our main rotor resulting in a brief autorotation and crash landing. Our injured aircrew survived and continued the fight by taking a nearby armed HMMWV and provided suppressive cover fire for the C-130 that was taxiing and taking off at that point. Excellent team work here also.
• Intra-bird comms were very good.

Cons:

• Comms on the CAS net (LR08) were highly cluttered. Simply way too much talking and lack of brevity made for a mess. The amount of constant transmissions and radio step-ons made it very difficult for other aircraft to transmit messages. While INFIDEL-1 Gann.T did a great job, pilots need to just keep calm, keep brevity in mind and keep the channel deconflicted.

 

[Abate.L]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT-4
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Abate.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Brigadier General Tharen.R
Captain Burton.P
Warrant Officer 1 Butcher.B
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Sergeant Whitehead.B
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Rodahl.S


Public Personnel Within Element:
Ivanguliashki

Pros:

• Hectic fun had by all and highly enjoyable scenario.
• Immersive mission and parameters. Due to the fantastic zuesing and little details the objectives and environment became believable.
• Good communication within the squad and within platoon net.
• Phenomenal work from ATLAS.
• Exciting and hair raising exfil.
• Excellent squad execution and performance from FTLs.
• Felt safe guarded at all times from air assets. Enjoyed watching them work and INFIDEL alike.
• Good resupplies.
• Perfect mission pacing and fallback times.
• Excellent performance from SIERRA.
• Mackey.A constantly provided a calm and focused presence as 6. Top work controlling the mission execution.
• Successful mission due to the steadfast performance from all involved.

Cons:

• Slightly light on the ground meant for a large defensive area having holes within.
• Slow staging due to late player arrivals.
• Although short distance there was no convoy net set.

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ Operation Processed!