AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Outcast | Operation Breakout

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Breakout
Number Within Campaign: 4/?
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Server 2
Date of Combat Mission: 27MAY23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z (1800)
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A

Number of Attendees: 44
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Ronen.R
Major Burton.P
Major Stewart.B
First Lieutenant Gerrish.T
First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Teddy.J
Second Lieutenant Highman.J
Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
Master Sergeant Maco.D
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Taylor.C
Warrant Officer 1 Dujakovic.R
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Masnec.G
Corporal Tucker.C
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Bowman.B
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Davis.D
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Lewis.A
Specialist Priest.V
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Searle.I
Specialist Spin.M
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Willson.JA
Private First Class Perea.A
Private Woods.K

If I missed anyone let me know in a discord or forum PM.

Pros:
Mission very B A S E D

Cons:
ACRE still had some issues but randomly fixed itself? Not to sure issue or solution but it fixed itself
Framerate issue with the map, will work on it

 

[Spin.M]

Element Callsign: Buffalo-2
Element Leader: Specialist Spin.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Highman.J (Buffalo-2 CC and Buffalo-3 Pilot)


Pro:

• Great flying and comms
• Great planning up front and deconfliction between Buffs, 5, Infidel
• Good ideas for additional Buff engagement with transporting of EPOWs and Casualties
• Great interflight comms on separate LR channel

Con:

• Slight comms issues and some confusion with Muska transport
• Immediate AA threats upon take off from FOB

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Saint.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Stewart.B
Major Burton.P
Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Saint.Z
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Willson.JA
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Turner.L

4/2 attachments
Corporal Dio.B
Specialist Krupa.W


Pro:

• good formations
• good individual squad boarding onto helicopters

Con:

• rough mutual support
• the tank was too relient on bombs and not using 4/2
• lost a trooper, black tag
• we failed to move correctly as a plt, had the enemy been better placed and entrenched better we would have been fucked and lost the mission
• we need to work on calling out our plt movments, because it lead to squads crossing over mid assault/reaction to contacts while aggressive movements were conducted
• plt comms and movment need work
• had we fought an enemy with more substance (not numbers) such as player opfor or well placed entrenchments, it would have been a failed mission we relied too much upon luck and not enough on professional practiced infantry skills in which we pride ourselves on

 

[Mackey.A]

Element Callsign: MISFIT 6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Mackey.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pro:

• Great flying from A/1-7 Tonight. SPC Spin was able to successfully avoid a AA Missile from downing a fully laden BUFFALO after taking off from MOB Carter.
• PLT was able to complete all objectives with a minimum of casualties.
• Squads were able to tackle a number of tasks independently in order to achieve all objectives.
• Platoon and attachments were able to fight through a number of ACRE issues related to either disconnects or black tags.

Cons:

• Watched a tank eat multiple AT4s and 2x GBU's and still be active. Had to go deal with it myself.
• EXTRACT took way to long while troops were taking contact. A 3 minute call and multiple calls from myself and 5 on the long range to try to get people to the aircraft. ATLAS loaded on the wrong AIRCRAFT which caused confusion on the PZ.
• ACRE issue with disconnects rejoining or black tags upon respawn not being able to access there radios.
• Not everyone was reporting when they were crossing Phase Lines which caused delays in reporting and coordination with Air Assets.

 

[Priest.V]

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

Pro:

• Variety of action
• Busy busy busy! very well paced Op
• Really well planned by Mackey.A as 6
• Great utilisation of the keypad system and PL naming by all MISFITs
• Good options and balance for CAS Activity
• Beautifull map

Con:

• OPORD Imagery - ensure that Imagery used is accurate and relevant (AA Net size circles should be actual in place and accuratte or left not drawn if not known)
• OPORD Layout - When using "Image in General" type pictures and then "Image in Detail" multiple pictures please consider how it reads... if you have 5 Detailed images in slides without seeing the general for a while it can be a bit hard to track where is what

 

[Narramoor.A]

Element Callsign: Misfit-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Teddy.J
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Searle.I
Sergeant Taylor.C
Corporal Dio.B
Specialist Krupa.W

Pro:

• Excellent work from the two gun teams, good demonstration of a weapons team to new members. Use of talking guns
• Good Fun, excellent concept of operations by mission maker and planning by 6.
• Good server performance
• Good coordination observed internal to the squad and to other elements.
• A personal favourite map of mine

Con:

• Issue with Atlas 1 & 2 filling into Buffalo 3 which added length to the PZ
  • One trooper had a bug on boarding the airframe. Trooper was stuck in the ground whilst boarding the airframe
• Understrength platoon size, executing the tasking of a company in planning
• Blue on Blue situation on AOI 3, apologies to Misfit-1.

 

[Bethea.A]

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Corporal Bethea.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Tucker.C
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Specialist Lewis.A
Private First Class Perea.A
Specialist Bowman.B
First Lieutenant Gerrish.T
Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Sam.T

Pro:

• Interesting mission concept.
• Good lore in the Op Ord.
• Crossloading of equipment as required.
• Logistics were on point.
• Awesome job from Buffalo throughout the night but primarily at the start of the op when we were painted on takeoff.
• Mackey's joy at killing a tank with his "bare hands."

Con:

• Lack of deconfliction resulting in at least 2 blue on blue incidents.
• Det call at FOB Muska resulting in almost casualties amongst Atlas and Buffalo-2.
• Exfil was incredibly sloppy and the birds were on the ground for way too long due to blown transport assignments.

 

[Davis.D]

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:



Pro:

• Movement was fluid on a platoon level
• Very interactive and great concept of an operation
• Atlas had great movement with Assaulting elements
• Troopers who never played as Atlas did a great under stress.
• Buffalo pilots did amazing getting us in and out safely under contact.

Con:

• In game radio communications glitched out
• controlled detonation while loading black tags into Buffalo sustaining 1 yellow tag
• Change of plans wasn't relayed causing confusion
• confusion of extraction caused Buffalo 3 to stay for too long taking damage and resulting in failure to load all PAKS
• Atlas teams extract order wasn't given just "atlas is last" was received

 

[Turn.J]

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: Specialist Turn.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Master Sergeant Maco.D
Specialist Rodahl.S
Private Woods.K

Pros:

• Good movement and spacing.
• Positioning was good. We were always within mutual support of an infantry squad.
• Great map choice
• Lots of medical work at front of op.
• Surgery was varied and plentiful.

Cons:

• During exfil, loading of birds had errors in allocation of units, causing someone to be left behind and the bird almost being destroyed.
• During exfil, chalk leaders were unclear. Should be designated before loading.
• Controlled detonation of friendly assets half way through op occurred when Buffalo was still in the LZ and was being loaded. This very nearly caused casualties and damage to Buffalo.

 

[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:
Second Lieutenant Highman.J
Pros:

• Excellent Mission and tons of fun.
• Absolutely spectacular flying from BUFFALO-Flight.
• Great Rotary comms and coordination.
• Excellent CSAR.
• Using separate LR channel for ship-to-ship comms really helps in deconflicting and decluttering Aviation LR02.

Cons:

• Exfil: Birds were on the ground too long. Extreme emphasis on moving to and mounting the bird in most expeditious manner possible.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Armitage.T for processing.

 

[Armitage.T]

S1 Operations Updated