AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 186

[Tucker.C]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 186
Number Within Campaign: 4/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 26APR23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1800)
Mission OIC: Corporal Gann.T
Mission Controller: Corporal Tucker.C, Specialist Turn.J

Attendants: 36
Colonel LaCombe.M
Major Stewart.B
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Sergeant Goel.B
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Crowley.T
Corporal Dujakovic.R
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Tucker.C
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Robbi.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Specialist Masnec.G
Specialist Davis.D
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Bethea.A
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Andrews.A
Specialist Searle.I
Private First Class ODoyle.K
Private First Class Krupa.W
Private Juarez.RA
Private Bonnet.J
Private De Been.N
Private Mocca.J

Public/Retired
Brock
RET.Houston.T

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-3/ Big Bear-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Goel.B

Pro:

• Alot to do
• Fun OP
• Shot down a MI-8 with minigun

Con:

• Muddy Comms
• Bird experienced a RUD after touching down, with resupply on board
• ACRE Issues

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Infidel-1/2
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sam.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W

Pro:

• 9-Lines were decent, a good first step in my practice.
• Good banter throughout the OP.
• Got a handful of good strikes off that directly impacted the mission outcomes.
• Using the drone effectively was a nice step. This is something I don't do in my MOS and was definitely a nice addition to my skill set.

Con:

• ACRE issues materialized tonight. This made getting strike confirmation, and ISR relayed difficult.
• Several airframe losses led to CAS being off-station.
• Point of contention regarding airframe self-defense at the start of the OP.
• Need more practice with rapid construction and dissemination of CAS calls.

 

[LaCombe.M]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Colonel LaCombe.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Stewart.B
Sergeant Phillips.B
Specialist Rodahl.S
Private Juarez.RA

Pro:

• Op was fun, contact seemed fair overall, not too heavy/light
• CQB was well received by the squad
• Overall platoon movement seemed solid

Con:

• Poor command succession
• Unsure where CCPs were
• ACRE issues at end
  • Radios were in inventory on respawn however were unable to be managed via self-interact so were essentially useless
• Poor IR discipline overall
  • Namely, friendly ND of IR flare on our position near endex when enemy has NVGs. Luckily there were no enemy contacts remaining at that point.

 

[Bethea.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Specialist Bethea.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Robbi.J
Sergeant Guerra.J
Specialist Searle.I
Private De Been.N
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Krupa.W

Pro:

• Great work by the entire squad. Movements, Comms, Mutual Support, it was all great.
• The mission was very well put together. Plenty to do! The two factions worked very nicely.
• Contact levels were very well tuned. Everyone got to shoot at something.

Con:

• A few troopers had issue with night and nvgs being utilized again, reasoning being it is not fun to fight against identifying pixels we can barely see.
• Platoon was a bit of a mess, exacerbated by ACRE issues
  • Deconfliction with 2 was messy. We learned later that 2 was under strength and consequently hanging near 1 but that was not communicated to 1.
  • Bit of a miskey with 2 after attempting to coordinate a plan at the behest of 6. 2 moved off to 4 instead of taking the agreed upon route. Recommend if SLs are tasked with coordinating we give time in the field for that coordination to occur, preferably not over a radio.
  • Platoon movements were a little rough at times with squads moving into 1's lines of fire.

 

[Davis.D]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-7
Element Leader: Specialist Davis.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pro:

• Very enjoyable operation starting at dusk progressing to a night operation.
• Atlas 1 was very effective and quick when it came to treating casualties.
• Radio Communcation was clear and concise in the beginning.
• Enemy Strength wasn't underwhelming or over whelming.

Con:

• Acre issues arise after taking OBJ 1
• Couldn't access long range 152 after reinsertion.
• reconsolidation with atlas didn't happen often.
• Mass Casualties and Black tags
• Low numbers resulting in roles not being filled or requesting others to fill roles.

 

[Masnec.G]

Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: Specialist Masnec.G
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Velasquez.J
Private Mocca.J



Pro:

• Quick response time
• Good comms with Misfit-7 and Misfit-6
• Good triage

Con:

• Several misscomunications on radio during assault on last objective
• reconsolidation with atlas didn't happen often.
• Mass Casualties and Black tags

 

[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 Bloggins.R


Pros:

• Excellent mission, Really enjoying these more detailed OPORDS/Briefings. Makes for way better story, playtime, SA and immersion. Well done!
• Excellent Instraction. (ignore the red line under Instraction, it really is a word in full common usage).
• Good flying Grizzly. Even though it is risky, it was necessary. And as I always say, the proof is in the performance and as always, Alpha Co. delivers.
• Quality of piloting is simply outstanding. Excellent work by my highly motivated and energetic Crew Chief Bloggins.R.
• Skill of infantry in expeditiously entering/exiting the bird is much improved over previous ops. Job well done guys and great job leadership.

Cons:

• Comms were atrociously horrible. I am only referring to LR comms and specifically about Rotary assets activities, so that's our bad. Buffalo-1 is the flight lead and in the absence of ATC/Pegasus, Buffalo-1 controls the tasking execution of the flight in conjunction and in partnership with requests from 5. Buffalo-1 is the point person for the entire flight, unless the flight lead delegates that task, which is not likely since that is a hugely important job. Buffalo-1 is essentially the quasi-Pegasus for the entire flight, and that is his/her responsibility hence why they call it The Flight Lead. The silver lining here is that it was a learning experience, as 5 was a public player who was able to learn a whole lot about how Cav comms and ops work. [And btw, he was very thankful for our help and his learning experience a may very well be a new recruit soon... hopefully.] Every day is a school day. Despite comms issues, we were extremely grateful he stepped up so we didn't regress back to relying on Infidel as we have in the past, since it's not Infidels job to herd Buffalos.

 

[Bethea.A]

Tucker.C can I get Searle.I added to the list? He seems to be missing.

 

[Tucker.C]

Tucker.C can I get Searle.I added to the list? He seems to be missing.

Wilco, I'll get him added in the morning. Did he leave early?

 

[Bethea.A]

He left after we died due to his DCS SP. Did a full AAR while we were waiting on pickup with him. Armitage can confirm if ya need a witness.

 

[Tucker.C]

He left after we died due to his DCS SP. Did a full AAR while we were waiting on pickup with him. Armitage can confirm if ya need a witness.

Roger that. We're good. He's been added.

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Davis.D for processing

 

[Davis.D]

S1 Operations Processed