AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Maleagant's Demise

[Geki.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Maleagant's Demise
Number Within Campaign: x
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Servers
Date of Combat Mission: 30JUL23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission Controller: First Sergeant Geki.T
Mission OIC: Major Stewart.B

Personnel in attendance:
Major Dread.M
Captain Gerrish.T
First Lieutenant Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Second Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Highman.J
Master Sergeant Maco.D
Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Goel.B
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Staff Sergeant Trunkman.K
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Tucker.C
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Santoyo.T
Sergeant Robbi.J
Sergeant Phillips.B
Corporal Kiser.C
Corporal Taylor.C
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Fox.Z
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Harris.M
Corporal Lamb.J
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal York.KC
Corporal Black.A
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Stuart.Z
Corporal Zaren.T
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
Specialist Mac.S
Specialist Hans.D
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist DeBeen.N
Specialist Jager.J
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Eugene.R
Specialist Fisher.S
Private First Class Dermont.L
Private First Class Prescott.J
Private First Class Woods.K
Recruit Taylor.D
(Ret)CPL.Macdonald.I
Specialist Cox.Y

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: OUTLAW-1
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Sergeant Tucker.C
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Santoyo.T

Pros:

• LOTS OF FUN
• Had a synced shot moment when an enemy technical rolled up and it was beautiful
• held our own in the OBJ for over an hour against armor and APCs
• Viking coming into save OUTLAW was a chefs kiss of movie moments

Cons:

• Medic inside the unit didnt have stitch perms at first

 

[Knights.Z]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Knights.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Knights.Z


Pros:

• Platoon did well despite the issues

Cons:

• Extremely low FPS that affected the entirety of Viking platoon, which delayed mission start by 30 minutes
• Due to the delay, the effectiveness of the planning was greatly diminished, I could not do effective FRAGOs or leaders briefs as I was constantly rushing
• The mission relied greatly upon effective FRAGOs due to planning around recon. I could not do these effectively.

 

[Robbi.J]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-3
Element Leader: Sergeant Robbi.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Sergeant Phillips.B
Corporal Taylor.C
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Fox.Z


Pros:

• First opportunity for Viking 3 to take part in a Bravo FTX.
• Good concept of mission.
• Rescuing Viking 2

Cons:

• Cancer Framerate and disconnects
• Mission scope too large and ambitious... need to be tightened up for the future.
• A lot of inaction and problems that caused disconnects.

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Raider Flight
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Dread.M
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L

Pros:

• Good late mission fires and tasking.

Cons:

• Extremely low FPS, seemingly due to a lot of additional objects.
• Use of BMP/BDRM with ATGM and TOW systems one shot aviation assets.
• Slow start, not much to do until late in the mission.

 

[Albright.J]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Corporal Albright.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Master Sergeant Maco.D
Recruit Taylor.D

Pros:

• Nice role for those who wanted a rather peaceful OP
• Good communication on medical net
• Zeus gave us a decent flow of NPC patients when there where no players to treat
• Overall chill OP, the idea of having a BTL aid station fit very well in the concept of a medical-focused FTX.

Cons:

• LZ intended for casualty drop-off and extraction only used twice in the entire OP
• Several black tags (mostly NPCs but also players) due to bugs, with many of them arriving as black tag already
• Convoy net got used for unrelated conversations, which caused some confusion at the initial roll-ou

 

[Mac.S]

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

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Element Callsign:Viking-1
Element Leader: Specialist Mac.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Hans.D
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Rodahl.S
Corporal Kiser.C
Specialist Aldana.J
(Ret)CPL.Macdonald.I

• Pros: lots of fun
• Squad did what we had to do very well.
• With the amount of people we had we were able to do more then expected.

• Cons: poor performance on server
• Poor mounting and unmounting movement
• poor movement when clearing most phase lines and stay in line with each element.

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros

• An Atlas oriented FTX is a nice change, exciting to be dedicated security.
• This OP served as a very good testing ground for all of the last 3 months worth of changes.
• Good use of ISR elements in the platoon.
• Good engagement of enemy contact.

Cons

• Performance issues at mission start
• Scope of the mission combined with the foliage in the terrain meant that the mission could not be completed in time.
• A few stoppages on the convoy dragged out the length of things.
• Not enough causalities for Viking-7, perhaps splitting the platoon up to two different AOs might have allowed for more casualties production
• Buffalo flight didn't get utilised by myself

 

[Sam.T]

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

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

Pros:

• Overall, the concept of OPs was good! Some teething issues, but a good change and movement in a good direction for the MEDPLT.
• I was able to effectively keep the BAS team busy, good flow of GREENFOR casualties coming into the site outside of Mustang dispatches.
• Tasking Mustang with CSAR for a downed airframe was awesome!

Cons:

• The intent for Viking-7 to be dispatching Mustang did not materialize, which is unfortunate. In the future, allocating a specific MEDVIC instead of positioning them with them with Viking-5, and positioning Mustang further away/with additional tasking will help with this.
• Frames and game crashes were rough.
• Triage and MASCAL calls from Viking were not good. MASCAL was an apparent miscall, and casualties weren't being triaged/sent up.
• There are issues with TFAR; this is the first time I've seen a Company scale operation, so we need more learning.

 

[Goel.B]

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

Element Callsign: MUSTANG-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Goel.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Rok.M
Private First Class Woods.K


Pros:

• Overall, the concept of OPs was good! Some teething issues, but a good change and movement in a good direction for the MEDPLT.
• I was able to effectively keep the BAS team busy, good flow of GREENFOR casualties coming into the site outside of Mustang dispatches.
• Tasking Mustang with CSAR for a downed airframe was awesome!

Cons:

• The intent for Viking-7 to be dispatching Mustang did not materialize, which is unfortunate. In the future, allocating a specific MEDVIC instead of positioning them with them with Viking-5, and positioning Mustang further away/with additional tasking will help with this.
• Frames and game crashes were rough.
• Triage and MASCAL calls from Viking were not good. MASCAL was an apparent miscall, and casualties weren't being triaged/sent up.
• There are issues with TFAR; this is the first time I've seen a Company scale operation, so we need more learning.

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: OUTLAW-1
Element Leader: Corporal Albright.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Master Sergeant Maco.D
Recruit Taylor.D

Pros:

• Nice role for those who wanted a rather peaceful OP
• Good communication on medical net
• Zeus gave us a decent flow of NPC patients when there where no players to treat
• Overall chill OP, the idea of having a BTL aid station fit very well in the concept of a medical-focused FTX.

Cons:

• LZ intended for casualty drop-off and extraction only used twice in the entire OP
• Several black tags (mostly NPCs but also players) due to bugs, with many of them arriving as black tag already
• Convoy net got used for unrelated conversations, which caused some confusion at the initial roll-ou

Please note OUTLAW was the roleplay element; you were still ATLAS-1.

 

[Eugene.R]

Element Callsign: Viking-7
Element Leader: SPC.Eugene.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Rozhkov.P
CPL.Holiday.T
PFC.Prescott.J

Pros:

• Great mission layout, loved the base ambience/immersive environment upon start.

Cons:

• Viking-7 barely had any work to do, we from the most part were Viking-5's gunner/commander in the stryker.
• Very little ability for Viking-7 to task Mustang elements as they were already on scene making it impossible to task them.
• Triage not being used properly once again, people misidentifying type of casualty status.
• Platoon step off needs to be improved, 30min gear up with a 2 hour window for an op is insane, timing was very poor led to mission being cut half way through.
• Viking-7 and Viking-5 being in same vic, while 5 does resupplies and repairing made tasking difficult (constantly shifting grids)
• Overall the original brief plan for Viking-7 was not utilized that well this FTX due to Mustang elements arriving on scene before we could even call them. (made us useless)
• FPS performance throughout entire operation was low.

 

[Lindsay.A]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Highman.J


Pros:

• Ambitious mission concept
• Good briefing as we were pressed for time, got through everything and pushed to map/mission as quickly as possible
• OUTLAW/ATLAS riding in BUFFALO-1 visually ID'ed, talked flight crew on, landed and captured a random HVT wandering the wilderness

Cons:

• Frame rates made flying difficult at time(s) but a Zeus must have been cleaning up, it stabilized as we went along.
• Slow start, 40+ min before convoy rolled & not much for aviation to do initially but this improved as time went on
• Too ambitious? Like seasoning if it's not enough you can always add but start with too much it overwhelms everything.

 

[Armitage.T]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-2
Element Leader: Corporal Armitage.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Harris.M
Corporal Lamb.J
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal York.KC
Specialist DeBeen.N
Specialist Jager.J
Specialist Krupa.W
Private First Class Dermont.L

Pros

• Some enjoyed the long op
• Got to use equipment and strategies we practiced in SP
• CLS was kept busy
• Good amount of contact
• Great op idea

Cons

• Some didn't enjoy the length of the op
• Slotting felt weird for individuals who weren't a part of Bravo
• Terrain too difficult for strykers
• Radio issues, some didn't set their radios
• Comms were poor in squad. People talked over leadership consistently
• Mission too ambitious

 

[Sullivan.A]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Sullivan.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
Staff Sergeant Trunkman.K
Corporal Black.A
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Stuart.Z
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Fisher.S
Specialist Cox.Y

Pros

• op was enjoyable
• good mission
• everyone worked towards the intent

Cons

• delayed start
• small issue with understanding our role in this ftx
• need to still figure out the radios properly

 

[Kinser.E]

Locked!

 

[Kinser.E]

Assigned White.N for Processing

 

[White.N]

S1 Operations updated.