AAR ARMA 3 | A/1-7 FTX Operation First Strike

[Dread.M]

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

Name of Combat Mission: A/1-7 FTX Operation First Strike
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 12MAR23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000z (1500CST)
Mission OIC: - Major Dread.M
Mission Controller: Sergeant Goel.B, Second Lieutenant Beiter.A, First Sergeant Summerfield.P, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W

7th Cavalry Personnel in Attendance: 54

1. Major Burton.P
2. Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
3. Major Dread.M
4. First Sergeant Summerfield.P
5. Second Lieutenant Highman.J
6. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W
7. Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
8. Warrant Officer 1 Berg.J
9. Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
10. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
11. Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N
12. Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
13. Warrant Officer 1 Sparrow.P
14. Warrant Officer 1 Morton.Q
15. Warrant Officer 1 Spitnale.K
16. Warrant Officer 1 Tyrcon.L
17. Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
18. Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
19. Master Sergeant Maco.D
20. Sergeant First Class Abate.L
21. Sergeant Phillips.B
22. Sergeant Sam.T
23. Sergeant Santoyo.T
24. Corporal Armitage.T
25. Corporal Bane.K
26. Corporal Dujakovic.R
27. Corporal Hilberg.A
28. Corporal Holiday.T
29. Corporal Lucander.P
30. Corporal Robbi.J
31. Corporal Westcott.R
32. Corporal Zander.D
33. Corporal Zaren.T
34. Specialist Albright.J
35. Specialist Bethea.A
36. Specialist Black.A
37. Specialist Crowley.T
38. Specialist Davis.D
39. Specialist Dixon.E
40. Specialist Harvey.C
41. Specialist Kiser.C
42. Specialist Kramar.N
43. Specialist Lee.RA
44. Specialist Mac.S
45. Specialist Priest.V
46. Specialist Rodahl.S
47. Specialist Spin.M
48. Specialist Turner.L
49. Specialist Winters.R
50. Specialist Xinos.T
51. Private First Class Bowman.B
52. Private First Class Cole.T
53. Private First Class Searle.I
54. Reservist Law.S

PROS:

• Great turnout from the Company and Battalion
• Complex mission mostly successful
• Gave several ideas for future training plans
• COEI recommendations to follow

CONS:

• Map performance on the server
• Didn't get a chance to complete the entire mission plan because of the above

If I missed an attendee please send a PM.

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A

Pros:

• Overall objective and scope were solid, briefings and such were on point
• Good contact with ground forces throughout the operation
• Even with limited medical personnel our medics did fantastic
• Got to call in broken arrow which was nifty

Cons:

• Obvious lag issues with most players having 5-10 FPS. Deniland is pretty hard on frames on top of the amount of contact we had.
• Requiring resupply is needed but hard to accomplish givin the issue above

 

[Maco.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-7
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Maco.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:
On paper great plan looked very fun to do.
Pilots were top notch

Cons:
Was not able to do my role due to FPS and game crash
imo I think for the overall enjoyment factor it should of been called off to be reran to work out server issues.

 

[Berg.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Eagle 1 Flight
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Berg.J - Eagle 1-1

Element Members:
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R - Eagle 1-2
Specialist Lee.RA - Eagle 1-3
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L Eagle 1-4
Warrant Officer 1 Tyrcon.L - Eagle 1-5




Pros:

• Most of the training objectives were accomplished.
• Planning assisted in breaking task information down to individual pilots in both flights.
• The mission was overall successful and our mission objectives were accomplished.

Cons:

• Need to deconflict frequencies when operating as two separate multi-ship flights.
• Performance made a lot of our section's pilots have to drop throughout.
• Rocky start led to difficulties keeping our initial objective on time.

Not a pro or a con, but good chance to mention: We need to get rid of the contact DLC items in the FW kit, and someone mentioned the flightsuit on the default FW kit has poor G resistance values. It would be a good idea to change this, as this saves the effort for Zeus having to give us different suits every time.

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: WO1. Sparrow.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SGT. Santoyo.T

Pros:

• Good mission concept
• Good team work
• Comms were good, considering the situation

Cons:

• Lag was abhorrent
• Compositions were messed up. Should not have radios by default as that can lead to acre issue
• Buffalo on CTAB was screwed up I appeared as 3 which I think is a composition issue.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Sergeant Phillips.B
• Sergeant Sam.T
• Corporal Armitage.T
• Corporal Narramoor.A
• Specialist Bethea.A
• Specialist Winters.R
• Private First Class Bowman.B
• Private First Class Cole.T
• Private First Class Searle.I

Pros:

• Good Communication
  
  • In-Squad & Platoon
• Good Movement
  
  • Decent squad deconfliction
  • Buddy movement solid
• Friendly Aircraft Engagement
  
  • Fun to see aircraft contact above
• Succession of Command
  
  • Both squad & platoon succession was on point
• Mission Accomplished

Cons:

• Performance
  
  • Ruined an otherwise very good operation
  • Suggestion was lower infantry count in A Co FTX
  • 
• Weak 1st Objective
  
  • Few contact
  • Lots of empty streets
• Blue-on-Blue
  
  • Infantry to infantry PID

 

[Lindsay.A]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-3
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Thornhill.T
Corporal Robbi.J
Reservist Law.S

Pros:

• Ambitious mission concept
• Good teamwork
• No Blue on Blue

Cons:

• Lag
• Appreciate the ambitious scope of mission but possible to break into smaller pieces
• Possible server doesn't like this map?
• Labels on aircraft not behaving in blue force tracker?
• used v2 of map not v4 not sure why?

 

[Wulf.C]

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

Name of Combat Mission: A/1-7 FTX Operation First Strike
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 12MAR23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000z (1600) (1500CST)

Element Lead: Warrant Officer 1 Constantine Wulf

Element Personnel in Attendance:
Second Lieutenant Joe Highman


PROS:

• Excellent OPORD and mission planning
• Ambitious and exciting mission design
• Generally good comms considering we were dealing with 3 radios for the first time in years

CONS:

• Mission performance makes evaluating if training objective with any true accuracy very difficult
• Flying was not enjoyable due to the performance issues
• A few smaller issues: resupply cargo crates on carrier were impossible to see at night, re-spawning threw us to the edge of the map.

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Infidel-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Nate "Justicar" Thumper

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• A lot of contact at Objective Bronze.
  • Called in danger close type 2 CAS on our position, "broken arrow", due to a Mi-24 auto-rotating right into the middle of our compound, while taking contact outside the compound as well; took a lot of casualties, including myself, but to my knowledge no deaths occurred.
• Got to watch Raider-1 take out the aforementioned Mi-24 with unguided "dumb fire" rockets about 50M off the deck.

Cons:

• Frames, obvious.
• Lack of understanding by some of the role of Infidel

 

[Westcott.R]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: CPL Westcott.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
MAJ Burton.P
2LT Mackey.A
CPL Zaren.T
SPC Black.A
SPC Crowley.T
SPC Turner.L
SPC Xinos.T
SFC Whitsel.M (RET)


Pros:

• Thank you Alpha Co. for having us and excellent work de-conflicting with Misfit Platoon.
• Mission scope and scale were awesome!
• Fun for Infantry despite not main focus of mission/training.
• Misfit-1 displayed excellent communications internally, CQB was fluid and executed very solidly.
• Great comms on Platoon Level, radios were clear!

Cons:

• Framerate drops made playing....very difficult in the beginning. Suggest turning down or disabling particles for explosions, possibly less infantry slots?
• Blue on Blue incident in OBJ 1 from my team, player was having frame issues, but I should set better hard lanes of fire.
• Not enough fire commands on fireteam level.

SL Notes: I had a killer squad that pretty much was on autopilot, make my job very easy. I stepped up to 6 when Beiter had disconnect issues for the first time ever and quickly put infantry to work the best I could, but I should have picked it up more expediently. Thanks for having us A-Co!

 

[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.Davis.D
SPC.Albright.J
SPC.Harvey.C

Pro:
Good comms between Atlas, 7, and 6
Great team to work with
Alpha did great in response to flying with low fps

Con:
Either incorrect kit taken or loadout being wrong in the arsenal led to Atlas' surgeon missing essential equipment
Lack of 7 and server issues led to some confusion of which squads needed medical care

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Davis.D for processing

 

[Davis.D]

S1 Operations Processed