AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 175

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 175
Number Within Campaign: 2/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 08FEB23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1700)
Mission OIC: Major Phoenix.G
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A , Specialist White.M

Attendants:

1. Major Phoenix.G
2. Captain Burton.P
3. Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
4. Second Lieutenant Stetchkov.A
5. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W
6. Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
7. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
8. Warrant Officer 1 Sparrow.P
9. Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
10. Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
11. Sergeant Major Preacher.A
12. Sergeant First Class Abate.L
13. Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
14. Sergeant Norman.B
15. Sergeant Stewart.AJ
16. Sergeant Sam.T
17. Sergeant Phillips.B
18. Corporal Holiday.T
19. Corporal Hilberg.A
20. Corporal Westcott.R
21. Corporal Lucander.P
22. Corporal Santoyo.T
23. Corporal Narramoor.A
24. Corporal Velasquez.J
25. Corporal Zaren.T
26. Specialist Masnec.G
27. Specialist Turn.J
28. Specialist Albright.J
29. Specialist Rodahl.S
30. Specialist Priest.V
31. Specialist White.M
32. Specialist Alexander.P
33. Specialist Dixon.E
34. Specialist Crowley.T
35. Specialist Sorrow.R
36. Specialist Tucker.C
37. Specialist Tobias.A
38. Specialist Savage.C
39. Specialist Dougan.J
40. Specialist Xinos.T
41. Specialist Spin.M
42. Private First Class Andrews.A
43. Private First Class Falleur.J
44. Private First Class Cole.T
45. Private Krupa.W

Non Cav members:

1. Belka_Standard
2. Expendable Joe
3. leand
4. Hpgaming
5. BlueSpaceMan

 

[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.Velasquez.J
CW2.Sutodoreh.W
SPC.Albright.J

Pro:
Good comms between Atlas teams and 7
Great team to work with
Huge amount of medical work
Lots of surgery

Con:
Multiple mascas situation spread Atlas very thin
Lots of confusion at the start on if a pilot was found or not
Weapon overcooking was way too much
Lots of black tags

 

[Sparrow.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: BISON-1/RAIDER-1
Element Leader: WO1. Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPT. Burton

Pro:
Had Fun

Con:
Bison Copilot Camera Bug
Comms were a mess
Zeus was a coward with AA

 

[Priest.V]

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

Element Callsign: INFIDEL-1
Element Leader: Priest.V

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Schmidt.A

Pro:
Complex mission set for CAS in urban at night

Con:
Approaching CSAR in Urban as a “raid” was the wrong call IMO - needed more of a deliberate approach especially once it was highlighted we had no ISR and were blindly groping for locations. Hindsight’s 20/20 but a good lesson learnt.
For myself - I should have anticipated this and taken the time to divide the city up into sectors or reference squares and briefed all MISFOT CS accordingly for faster coordination of CAS

 

[Phillips.B]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Sergeant Major Preacher.A
• Sergeant Phillips.B
• Sergeant Stewart.AJ
• Corporal Hilberg.A
• Corporal Zaren.T
• Specialist Rodahl.S
• Specialist Sorrow.R
• Specialist Xinos.T
• Private First Class Cole.T

Pros:

• ATLAS
  • Overworked but kept up best they could
• Squad/Fireteam Drills
  • Basic drills upheld even during chaos
• Convoy Net!!!!!!
• Mission Accomplished

Cons:

• Necessary Equipment
  • Hardier vehicle choice
  • IED Equipment
• ISR Lacking
• CScripts
  • Cookoff debilitating whole platoon
• IEDS
  • Far too many
  • No counters
  • Caused constant uncons and black tags
  • Squad wiped twice
• Medication/Treatment Consent
  • Pulling troopers off the line without trooper/FTL/SL consent
  • Non-Critical Treatment < Firefight
• Black Tags
  • 15 Dead should not happen

 

[Santoyo.T]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT-5
Element Leader: CPL.Santoyo.T


Pro:

• Lots of communication between elements,
• Quick and efficient clearing of search areas in the first 2 zones
• Enjoyed the intense feeling from engagements, pucker factor from RPGs flying overhead

Con:

• Multiple MASCAS events towards the end slowed momentum, felt like a scramble to make ad hoc teams to conduct searches
• Comm issues intermittently through the op, making communicating difficult at times

 

[Alexander.P]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-3
Element Leader: Specialist Alexander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Spin.M - Crew Chief
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R - Co-Pilot

Pro:

• Great intra-aircraft comms and delegation of duties
• Good practice monitoring and transmitting in a very active radio environment

Con:

• The first LZ in the North West of the city had 2 large cranes that presented a hazard to insertion. Marking hazards like this on the map and alerting pilots to their presence in the LZ brief would be helpful in preventing accidents.
• Due to communication issues, there were individuals from the Atlas element who had a delayed insert during the mass cass events. It was unclear if there was a LZ available for their insert and it took a couple minutes for the confusion to be resolved.

 

[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:
Specialist Alexander.P
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R

Pros:

• Very fun night mission. Nice change in mission dynamics.
• 2x BUFFALO...excellent decision to incorporate, and ALWAYS preferred for numerous reasons. Not quite enough Alpha Co. members present to do it full justice, but as always, in true 7Cav fashion, we managed and delivered the best results with the assets we had (equipment and personnel).
• BUFFALO crews worked well together.
• Teamwork was A+.

Cons:

• Comms were not so great. Numerous CTAF calls skipped. These CTAF position reports are vitally necessary and mandatory SOP, both in 7Cav and IRL (i.e. uncontrolled airspace). Extremely important for SA, separation, and deconfliction.
• Radio comms kind of turned into radio vomit. Comms brevity is imperative and all air assets should be mindful of KISS methodology.
• As discussed and I thought resolved in previous ops, Infidel's tasking is CAS, not transportation/utility/logistics choreography. We really need to get away from this unless exigent circumstances absolutely dictate otherwise. [5] is best suited for any aviation coordination other than CAS.
• Aircraft personnel and certainly the PC should always organize/reorganize team with the proper callsign for both radio comms continuity AND Ctab/BLUFOR tracking purposes to eliminate any possible confusion. This is quite simple and should never be overlooked.

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ Operation Processed!