AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 189

[Turn.J]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 189
Number Within Campaign: 3/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 17MAY23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1800)
Mission OIC: Major Stewart.B
Mission Controller: Specialist Turn.J, Corporal Hilberg.A

Number of Attendees: 45
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Stewart.B
First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J
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 Thumper.N
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Terp.J
Sergeant Vincent.L
Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Crowley.T
Corporal Hilberg.A
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Tucker.C
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Bethea.A
Specialist Renard.S
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Tobias.A
Specialist Turn.J
Private First Class Budz.P
Private First Class Mitchell.B
Private First Class Bonnet.J
Private Juarez.RA
Private Woods.K

Retired/Public Attenants:
CrimzonEmpire
BlueSpaceMan
Dr. Wierd
Expendable_Joe
Guti
Rico
SaladzZz
Squirrel Master
Vaughn.V

Mission Controller Actionable Improvements for the Operation:
1. Find a better balance of AAA and MANPAD threats for aviation.
2. Use RHS armored vehicles to avoid 3CB vehicles, the latter of which are far harder to kill to the point of breaking immersion. See below reports for reasoning.
3. Discuss improvements to logistical system with S3 CoC to better balance supply and improve immersive gameplay.

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[Whitehead.B]

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

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Element Callsign: Viking - 4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Corporal Tucker.C
Sergeant Westcott.R
Private First Class Bonnet.J
Corporal Crowley.T
Private First Class Gutierrez.E
Private First Class Beta.P
Private First Class Budz.P
Specialist Tobias.A

Houston.T
Vaughn.V
Drew
Bluespaceman

Pros:

• Excelent 240 Gun teams with spoting getting the gunners on target and loading
• Javalins got plently of kills including static weapons
• Great SBF positions
• 240s with the perfect talking guns to the point it got pointed out that it looked like a minugun
• Javalins time on target extreamly fast
• Good 240 and Javalin resupplys
• Great squad comunucation
• Easily 150+ kills within the squad

Cons:

• Slow react to IDF
• No 50. cal resuply for vehicle

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel within Element:
Corporal Kastor.K
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Specialist Rodahl.S
Corporal Zander.D
Private Juarez.RA
Sergeant Terp.J
Specialist Bethea.A
Corporal Armitage.T
Specialist Searle.I
SUSTAIN:
- Squad internal comms were good

• Good amount of contact.
• Good use of SBF
• Use of convoy for realism was perfect.

IMPROVE:

• Excessive use of rocekts on dead vics
• AI stuck in walls
• Possible Blue on Blue

Notes: Viking-1 engaged and destroyed the following

• 1 x BRDM
• 1 x BMP-1
• 1 x BMP-2
• 3 x BTR-80A
• 2 x BTR-70
• 1 x T-90A
• 1 x MTLB-ZSU-23

 

[Sparrow.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Raider-2
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P

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

Pros:

• Good Op Concept
• Good Comms
• Alot for Raider to do

Neutral:

• A lot of Radar guided guns for the size of element
• Need to mix MANPADS with mounted AAA

Cons:

• Vehicles where tanker then they would be usually
• Where the enemy was invading from or where the front line is would be nice to have in the OPORD or on the map
• Javelin use by infantry took away work from Raider way too much
• No gun runs for raider due to the AAA threat

✂️ Rescue Hoist 1

60 seconds · Clipped by PolySparrow · Original video "WFW 189 - Raider-2" by PolySparrow

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✂️ Rescue Hoist 2

41 seconds · Clipped by PolySparrow · Original video "WFW 189 - Raider-2" by PolySparrow

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[Narramoor.A]

Element Callsign: Viking-5
Element Leader: Sergeant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros

• Excellent work coordinating with Atlas and Buffalo. Sam, Sutodoreh and Hamm are all pleasant company and I love working with them.
• Viking-4 melted the adversary force at their SBFs. Viking-1 did great MOUT
• Good work coordinating with 6 and developing the plan during execution.
• Great job from the Zeus' providing a contact rich environment that kept all combat elements busy.
• Good comms on all nets. I (discovered?) a comms management method for dealing with more than 3 nets simultaneously.

Cons

• Internet dropped out during the most dense contact
• Relatively low tasking for Atlas and Buffalo flight.

Note:
Idea for godfathers to utilise IDF smoke from enemies before they assault to cut off strong SBFs.

 

[Sam.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: Second Lieutenant Sam.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Velasquez.J

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Dr. Weird

Pros:

• Excellent comms throughout the operation, especially considering the lack of a Platoon Medic.
• Viking-5 handled his high level of net traffic amazingly.
• A very smooth convoy considering the Public nature of the OP. Great training opportunity for a public member.
• Step-off time was solid.
• Utilized a Javeline to kill a marksman that was engaging Atlas and Viking-1 that was outside our effective small arms range. Very fun!
• A good amount of SPOTREPs relayed to Viking-5.
• Our team maintained good security at our CCPs.
• A very good amount of reduction, considering the lower casualty numbers.

Cons:

• OP felt "short" due to the type of work we had and how the overall OP was paced for Atlas.
• Lighter casualty work compared to previous OPs in this campaign.

 

[Thumper.N]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Raider-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J

Pros:

• Good overall mission
• Good mission pace
• A lot of fires, killed a multitude of targets and an air to air kill.

Cons:

• Needed better balance of Manpads and Vehicle AA.

 

[Sutodoreh.W]

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

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Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W "Scooter"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W "Scooter"

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Expendable_Joe
Rico


Pros:

• Saved all realistically treatable casualties (only black tag died before we could begin treatment)
• Good teamwork in the squad
• Good comms and teamwork with Atlas 1
• Good comms with 5

Cons:

• Infantry didn't really react to IDF at all, despite the casualties. They seemed to adopt an attitude of "f it, when we get hit we'll just get treated or reinserted"
• Infantry seemed to have an unrealistic amount of Javelins available to them

 

[Hamm.C]

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

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Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C "Hooker"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Private First Class Mitchell.B

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
n/a


Pros:

• Excellent mission and tons of fun. Very well done Turn.J.
• Excellent OPORD and briefing. Really love and appreciate the details.
• RAIDER-2 crash at the outset of the mission was unfortunate but provided a really ambitious CSAR Hoist/Hook opportunity, which was masterfully executed and accomplished. Two pilots plucked out of the middle of the sea, back to back with amazing results. (See Sparrow.P videos above, it really couldn't have been more perfect). So for the naysayers, the Hoist/Hook system on Hatchet Blackhawk DOES work. You just have to have a competent pilot and a stabilized helicopter. Great job to Crew Chief Bloggins.R who had never operated the hoist/hook before, but did so expertly on his first time. Well done sir.
• Comms with VIKING-5 were really fantastic as he was always responsive and on point with coordination. Great job Narramoor.A
• Another successful CSAR at near-ENDEX. Well done again guys.
• Air to air kill of a Mi-24 Hind, courtesy of Mitchell.B and his blazing mini-guns. Great shooting bro.

Cons:

• Would have been nice to see some more Alpha Co. rotary turnout.
• My frames dropped substantially near ENDEX.... from circa 30-35 down to 8 as I was escorting the convoy back. Not sure how or why, but this did suck.

Note: Add FRIES and 36.6m ropes by default. You never know when you're going to need it and weight/inventory impact on the bird is minimal. At one point during this OP, it would have been perfectly useful, but we didn't have the system installed nor the ropes in the inventory.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Davis.D for processing.

 

[Davis.D]

S1 Operations Processed