AAR A/1-7 FTX 13AUG23 Operation Dog House

[Dread.M]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Dog House
Number Within Campaign: x
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Training Servers
Date of Combat Mission: 13AUG23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000z
Mission Controller: Major Dread.M
Mission OIC: Major Dread.M

Personnel in attendance: 25

1. First Lieutenant Beiter.A
2. First Lieutenant Mackey.A
3. Second Lieutenant Highman.J
4. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
5. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
6. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J
7. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wulf.C
8. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
9. Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
10. Warrant Officer 1 Corbin.R
11. Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
12. First Sergeant Summerfield.P
13. Staff Sergeant Trunkman.K
14. Sergeant Hilberg.A
15. Corporal Bane.K
16. Corporal Olson.DJ
17. Corporal Terp.J
18. Specialist Mitchell.B
19. Specialist Grizzle.M
20. Specialist Spin.M
21. Specialist Daniel.S
22. Specialist Law.S
23. Specialist Willson.JA
24. Private First Class Mason.H
25. Private Slaughter.J

Pros:

• Stressed TFAR as much as I could to test how the CEOI works with what a heavy air asset Op requires.
  • Lots of development to be had to clear up comms. Racks, packs, and short ranges cause issues with trying to find a balance.
  • Need a scaling net SOP to handle multiple flights.
• Lots of examples of using BRA and Bullz calls that don't get used as often as they should.
• The ground forces that turned out was great to watch text book "break contact"
• CAP nuked everything and followed ROE perfectly. Identified unresponsive craft before shooting it down.
• HOG provided good overhead

Cons:

• Tree density made identifying hard targets impossible for HOG.
• Very few, if any CAS calls presented themselves.
• If com sec was announced we can't call actual grids to friendly positions, resulted in some punishing IDF.
• I loaded an older cScript in the file RW loadouts were wrong

 

[Highman.J]

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

Element Callsign: HOG FLIGHT
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Highman.J (HOG-1)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L (HOG-2-1)
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R (HOG 2-2)

Pros:

• Creative mission, fun map
• Hooray for Cadre!

Cons:

• Too many losses (especially unnecessary ones)
• Not our best teamwork in the air
• One TFAR issue where a pilot in the air suddenly lost comms randomly

 

[Mason.H]

Element Callsign: CHAOS
Element Leader: Private First Class Mason.H (CHAOS-1)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Mason.H (CHAOS-1)
Warrant Officer 1 Corbin.R (CHAOS-2)
First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Staff Sergeant Trunkman.K
First Lieutenant Beiter.A
Sergeant Hilberg.A

Pros:

• Very fun intense jungle survival and evasion
• Excellent helicopter pickup with multiple birds covering overhead
• Amazing performance from infantry guests

Cons:

• Overlapping communication on radios
• Very difficult terrain and obstacles for CAS (not a Con, just no CAS training carried out)

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

Element Callsign: RAIDER FLIGHT
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P (Raider-1)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Olson.DJ (RAIDER-1-2)
Corporal Terp.J (Raider-2-1)
Specialist Spin.M (Raider-2-2)

Pros:

• Did good Buddy team work on ground

Cons:

• Communications were crap
• Got shoot down early due to not seeing Anti air on CTAF

 

[Wulf.C]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO FLIGHT
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wulf.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Buffalo-1
Private Slaughter.J
Corporal Grizzle.M
Specialist Willson.JA
Buffalo-2
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
Specialist Law.S
Private First Class Sawyer.H
Bison-1
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J

Pros:

• Solid flying and teamwork within crews and in the flight.
• Pilots performed some major pucker factor landings
• Overall fun and challenging mission concept
• Comms security in rescue operations was followed, people remembered their BRA and BULLS

Cons:

• Comms were chaotic and disorganized, partially due limitations of TFAR partially on our use of them
• Code-words as outlined in the brief weren't used

 

[Armitage.T]

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[Xinos.T]

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