AAR ARMA 3 | June Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 193

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 192
Number Within Campaign: 2/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 14JUN23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Beiter.A, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W, Corporal Robbi.J
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Sam.T

Attendees: 46

1. Major Burton.P
2. Second Lieutenant Beiter.A
3. Second Lieutenant Sam.T
4. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sutodoreh.W
5. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
6. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
7. First Sergeant Geki.T
8. Sergeant First Class Abate.L
9. Sergeant Guerra.J
10. Sergeant Hilberg.A
11. Sergeant Narramoor.A
12. Sergeant Vincent.L
13. Sergeant Westcott.R
14. Sergeant Oldham.G
15. Sergeant Phillips.B
16. Corporal Bethea.A
17. Corporal Crowley.T
18. Corporal Harris.M
19. Corporal Kent.R
20. Corporal Lucander.P
21. Corporal Marcus.J
22. Corporal Robbi.J
23. Corporal Velasquez.J
24. Corporal Zander.D
25. Specialist Dixon.E
26. Specialist Krupa.W
27. Specialist Law.S
28. Specialist Rodahl.S
29. Specialist Searle.I
30. Corporal Stone.J
31. Specialist Turn.J
32. Specialist Tobias.A
33. Specialist Xinos.T
34. Private First Class Bonnet.J
35. Private First Class Rok.M
36. Private First Class Woods.K
37. Private Juarez.RA
38. Private Milam.B
39. Private Salte.B
40. Recruit Smith.DM
41. DrWierd
42. Expendable Joe
43. FullSaltyDoge
44. Manfred Schneider
45. Rico-lannetti (Kenny)
46. Vaughn.V

 

[Velasquez.J]

Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: CPL.Velasquez.J
Element Members:
Expendable_Joe
Manfred Schneider

Pro:

1. Good comms with 7, and Atlas1
2. Quick start, and move to AO
3. No black tags.
4. Decent amount of work, at the end of OP
5. New people to mission.
6. Good security and handling of casualties.

Con:

1. Checkpoint slow of casualties.
2. The first half of OP was slow.

 

[Dixon.E]

Element Callsign: Misfit - 4
Element Leader: Specialist Dixon.E
Element Members:
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Searle.I
Sergeant Guerra.J
Private First Class Rok.M
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal Crowley.T
Corporal Kent.R

Pro:

1. Great communication and teamwork
2. Good response on contact
3. Fun with abit slower/checkpoint OP
4. Great work from the assistant gunners

Con:

1. Not a lot of contacts
2. Convoy work was abit sloppy from the squad
3. Lost cohesion with other squads at SBF
4. Weird technical bug where my backpack got wiped

 

[Narramoor.A]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-5
Element Leader: Sergeant Narramoor.A
Element Members:
Sergeant Westcott.R

Pros

• Was a very good vertical slice of the role of PSG with a little bit of all taskings. Westcott learnt a lot about managing radios and 5's various taskings. Looking forward to him stepping up into the role.
• Good work with Buffalo, thank you to Whitehead for stepping up to Buffalo to fill that deficit.
• Convoy movement was executed very well, a nice immersive start to the OP
• Nice to play on this terrain again.
• Lots of tasking for Atlas
• Zeus' place contact very well and kept things engaging, with the convoy ambush and on the second half of the operation.
• Really liked the RP when it did happen.
• Robbi's Scottish Accent

Cons

• An amount of blue on blue and a very disoriented clearing of the forest. Enemy enveloped us in multiple occasions. Perhaps a platoon line instead of an L-shape would have been more appropriate
• We didn't deliver any humanitarian aid or succeed in our secondary objective due to multiple factors:
  • Civilians killed, early civilian casualties made the civilians uncommunicative and almost (understandably) hostile
  • The friendly truck was destroyed with the humanitarian aid
  • Civilians in Arma 3 don't act appropriately to situations
  • Zeus' were filled with tasking so initial civilians were not communicative. Can this be solved by having pre-scripted interaction / drop off in a box? It's difficult for the zeus' to manage the COIN ops
  • We didn't need to barge in and hard clear these people's houses when no contact was taken
• Multiple levels of incongruence with the mission parameters, the contact level and existing 7Cav doctrine. It feels like there's too much contact for the level of civilian presence in the AO. A civilian evac tasking might have been more appropriate as the location was an active warzone.

 

[Bethea.A]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-1
Element Leader: Corporal Bethea.A
Element Members:
Sergeant Oldham.G
Recruit Smith.DM
Private Milam.B
Private First Class Woods.K
Sergeant Phillips.B
Specialist Xinos.T
Private Salte.B
Corporal Stone.J

Pro:

1. Enjoyed the mission concept.
2. Thought the checkpoint was really well executed. Plenty to do.
3. "Favorite Op so far"

Con:

1. Beginning of op was a little slow for some folks.

 

[Geki.T]

Element Callsign: REAPER-1
Element Leader: First Sergeant Geki.T
Element Members:
Just Me Lol

Pro:

1. Fun mission concept
2. Flew for the first time ever in an op
3. Drones are dope

Con:

1. Vanilla Vikhr Laser Guided ATGM has like zero kill radius

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Vincent.L
Element Members:
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Private Juarez.RA
Private First Class Bonnet.J
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Tobias.A
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Rodahl.S
Corporal Harris.M
Rico-lannetti (Kenny)
Vaughn.V
FullSaltyDoge
Pro:

1. Good MOUT work
2. Squad management
3. Security practices
4. Mission/Map

Con:

1. Low Contact
2. Slow Tempo
3. Lack of immersion with current world building.

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sam.T

Pros

• Solid step-off time.
• Convoy to the checkpoint was above-average quality (not perfect, but definitely above average).
• Checkpoint operations themselves were conducted very well. This is awesome, as checkpoint operations are a mission profile we typically don't conduct or maintain an SOP for.
• SSE conducted at the OPFOR Patrol Base was lucrative.

Cons

• Civilian casualties were more than what is expected for an operation. Some casualties due to "arma-isms" and less-than-intelligent AI are to be expected. However, there were some rather egregious accounts from mission controllers tonight. (See second conn as well).
• Once again, there was a distinct lack of individual soldier discipline from certain troopers. This is entirely unacceptable. This is becoming a recurring trend, especially in a public setting, and needs to be addressed outside of Operations on a case-by-case basis.
• The scope of this operation at the moment felt very broad. Planning for the execution of a humanitarian objective, checkpoint security operation, SSE, and HUMINT operation among the populace, and staging for a FRAGO'ed hasty assault simultaneously was a bit unrealistic for the scope of a singular platoon. My suggestion would be to roll the checkpoint security and HUMINT/humanitarian work into one scripted event (having civilians arrive at the checkpoint to receive supplies in exchange for information) and then conduct EVAC for those civs and transition to a counter-assault. This would have provided a more distinct and linear mission profile and been easier to plan around.

Additional comments:
On-site BDA indicates the destruction of all fortifications and equipment at the OPFOR patrol base.
SSE provided a 1x Comms supply crate, which was returned to the checkpoint via HMMWV during break-contact for decryption.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Rasmus.M for processing

 

[Rasmus.M]

S1 Operations processed