AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Andean, Operation Rapid Response |

[Zaren.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Rapid Response
Number Within Campaign: 1/?
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 05MAY23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Zaren.T

Attendants: 35

1. Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
2. Second Lieutenant Zaren.T
3. First Sergeant Jupiter.J
4. Staff Sergeant Stewart.AJ
5. Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
6. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Liber.N
7. Sergeant Corveaux.A
8. Sergeant Narramoor.A
9. Sergeant Phillips.B
10. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
11. Sergeant Saint.Z
12. Sergeant Santoyo.T
13. Sergeant Westcott.R
14. Corporal Crowley.T
15. Corporal Dujakovic.R
16. Corporal Hilberg.A
17. Corporal Kastor.K
18. Corporal Marcus.J
19. Corporal Robbi.J
20. Corporal Tucker.C
21. Specialist Albright.J
22. Specialist Andrews.A
23. Specialist Bethea.A
24. Specialist Bishop.C
25. Specialist Bowman.B
26. Specialist Brian.F
27. Specialist Lee.H
28. Specialist Renard.S
29. Specialist Spin.M
30. Specialist Xinos.T
31. Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N
32. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
33. Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
34. [RET]SFC.Houston.T
35. [RET]CPL.York.A
    
    Bugs/issues for S3
    Major ACRE issue people cannot access their radio's after they have picked one up in the arsenal after reconnecting.
    Stuttering at the beginning was tied to the 4 strobes on the ground marking the first LZ for the air assault and stopped when they got removed.

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-2
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Nate "Justicar" Thumper

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pro:

• Good pace
• Good auto rotation
• Good CSR

Con:

• Stuttering due to strobes
• Excessive amount of AA

 

[Spin.M]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-3
Element Leader: SPC.Spin.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pro:

• Good pace
• Felt like the right amount of AA/AAA (from what ive heard), I never got engaged myself though
• Great comms between 5 and inter-flight
• Right amount of action versus down/slow time
• Great work from the rotary team all in all
• Great pre-planning from the BUFF flight, great use of interflight comms channel

Con:

• ACRE issues that effected multiple people including BUFFALO-1
• Could have done a couple more resupplies to help offset the slower times
• Stuttering at the beginning

 

[Andrews.A]

Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: SPC Andrews

7th Cavalry Personnel within Element:
SPC Andrews.A
CPL Crowley.T
CW3 Liber.N
CPL Kastor.K
SPC Bowman.B
CW2 Sparrow.P
SPC Lee.H
SPC Brian.F


SUSTAIN:
- Squad internal comms were good

• CQB was very well done
• Good Squad movement
• Security was good during halts

IMPROVE:
- Not enough contact

• ACRE issues
• Elements were bunched up
• Friendly mortars were danger close at times; needs to be coordinated better with infantry elements
• Leadership comms were rough.
• B4 moving to contact during resupply at AO1

 

[Robbi.J]

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

Element Callsign: BANDIT-4
Element Leader: Corporal Robbi.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Corveaux.A
Specialist Xinos.T

Pro:

• Good engagements at the SBFs with good visibility
• Outstanding teamwork
• Naramoor stepping up when I dc'd or ran mortars
• Mortars!

Con:

• Poor SBF locations early on.
• Poor turnout
• Disconnection and acre issues early on.

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: BANDIT-5
Element Leader: Saint.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Saint.Z

Pro:

• Saint.Z

Con:

• Saint.Z

 

[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 Christopher "Hooker" Hamm

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pro:

• Really great and comprehensive mission design and OPORD and briefing.
• I really studied this mission, so I was totally prepared to lead in our rotary support mission, which was generally well accomplished, despite issues.
• Extremely appreciative of my BUFFALO Flight teamwork working with me to make the best of a bad situation I will detail in my first con below.
• Despite issues (detailed below) with BUFFALO-1, Rotary personnel managed a difficult situation. The proof is in the performance and we delivered.
• Excellent Emergency Auto-Rotation performed by BUFFALO-2 (Thumper.N)

Con:

• EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE tech/control issues with BUFFALO-1 (Flight Lead, aka Me). These initial issues were totally unanticipated and couldn't be helped, until discovered after I was already in the air with a full bird, but very luckily I was able to resolve the problem through fixing in-game control settings and refreshing them. This is hard for me to admit, but being totally honest, this was nearly a catastrophic situation with a full bird at the outset of the whole mission. This won't happen again. Just sayin'.
• Worst ACRE issues maybe I've ever seen. Even with LR 152's in my inventory, they couldn't be ACE controlled, so they were worthless, which rendered me essentially comms worthless as Flight Lead. This has to be a Training Server problem since I never have these kinds of crazy issues on TacR.
• Stuttering/rubber-banding/server performance issues.
• Would have been nice to see more A. Co. Rotary participation.

 

[Bethea.A]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-1
Element Leader: Specialist Bethea.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Tucker.C
Sergeant Santoyo.T
Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Marcus.J
Sergeant Santoyo.T
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Renard.S

Pro:

• Great mission design. Contact level was good. Op Ord was very detailed and immersive. We especially liked the narrative of the rest of the Battalion being involved.
• Infill went very well.
• Succession was very good when it needed to be.
• Loved 4 being able to get in on the action throughout the Op. Really helps with immersion to hear 24/7 gunfire in the distance.
• CQB was excellent.
• Really enjoyed the hangar building at the airfield. 10/10 would watch Tucker get shot again.

Con:

• ACRE issues for reconnects JIP. Seemed to cause wider issues even for those who were connected the whole time.
• Terrain required some pretty extreme fireteam bounding, would like to be able to do that with 1 and 2 but not possible due to ACRE problems.
• Spacing of elements. 1 and 2 were way too close throughout the Op.
• Infidel/5 relaying (?) CAS on Platoon net seemed to cause some congestion. Differing opinions on this.

 

[Dujakovic.R]

Element Callsign: EAGLE
Element Leader: Corporal.Dujakovic.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L

Pro:

• Good CAS at the end.
• Good interflight comms.

Con:

• Seventeen lost airframes, this is absolutely unacceptable and almost shameful.
• Our HARMs did not track targets properly at all. Because of this, we had to get extremely close and sometimes even resort to bombs to take out launch sites. What is particularly frustrating is that I called this exact thing happening in the S3 chat. see here
• Our PL restriction was way outside of the lock range of these crap-HARMs requiring us to push past it for the sake of airframe preservation.
• We were being painted by enemy AA on the carrier deck.
• New AA seemed to spawn out of nowhere.
• We almost couldn't get to the actual tasking because the moment we were (temporarily) done with SEAD, a CAP tasking would appear.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Xinos.T for Processing.

 

[Xinos.T]

S1 Operations Processed