AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | Warefare Wednesday 206

[Sparrow.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 206
Number Within Campaign: 2/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 13SEP23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Beiter.A | Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Mission OIC: Sergeant Narramoor.A

Personnel in attendance: 45

1. Major Dread.M
2. Major Stewart.B
3. First Lieutenant Beiter.A
4. Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
5. Second Lieutenant Sam.T
6. Second Lieutenant Searle.I
7. Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
8. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
9. Sergeant First Class Abate.L
10. Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
11. Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
12. Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
13. Sergeant Crowley.T
14. Sergeant Fox.Z
15. Sergeant Narramoor.A
16. Sergeant Westcott.R
17. Corporal Armitage.T
18. Corporal Dio.B
19. Corporal Kastor.K
20. Corporal Mobius.T
21. Corporal Teddy.J
22. Corporal Telinov.V
23. Corporal Turn.J
24. Corporal Velasquez.J
25. Specialist Lewis.A
26. Specialist Krupa.W
27. Specialist Morris.T
28. Specialist Perea.A
29. Specialist Rodahl.S
30. Specialist Willson.JA
31. Specialist Xinos.T
32. Private First Class Mason.H
33. Private First Class Palumbo.P
34. Private First Class Taylor.D
35. Private First Class Walker.R
36. Private Swift.R

Retired / Public:
RET.Houston.T
SGT.Blake.H
Dr. Weird
Expendable_Joe
Garcia
MikeM86
Prototype9x
Watson011

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-7
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sam.T


Pros:

• A good amount of casualties.
• This was a massive improvement from last week's medical POV.
• Our hand-offs were solid when exchanging casualties.
• This was a good use of MEDEVAC.

Cons:

• OP lore and higher command intent felt really wonky tonight. Pushing aviation (Bison) into a super-non-permissive environment and conducting a "feint attack" that was realistically just an assault was not very immersive.
• A few instances of "Who's the red tag? Who's the red tag?" and people bleeding out in the back of your Stryker should probably be more important, and someone (squad CLS?) should be tracking that.

 

[Telinov.V]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-5
Element Leader: Corporal Telinov.V

Pros:
Good amount of contact and actions for the event.
Very good convoy and platoon comms and reaction to contacts.
Good communication with Choas and myself as well as 7.


Cons:
The original opord called for a feigning attack which turned into a full blown assault.
No tally on any emplaced SAM sites that we could find with drone or eyes, no idea if they were there at all.

 

[Dread.M]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-2
Element Leader: Major Dread.M

Cav Members:
Private First Class Walker.R
Specialist Krupa.W
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Westcott.R
Specialist Willson.JA

Pros:

• Great company which made the OP enjoyable and extremely important for fun factor.
• Lots of examples of internal people stepping in when SL was uncon multiple times.
• Decent engagement at the start.
• Solid plan with little notice.
• Viking-3 was on point when flexing when VK-2 had a mass cas

Cons:

• Definitely need to improve on react to IDF
• Didn't destroy our down vehicle
• Some chaos with consolidating vehicles with no seats
• Not a feint in execution

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-6
Element Leader: Sergeant Narramoor.A

Cav Members:
Sergeant Crowley.T

Pros:

• Nice to have driver Crowley in the Sierra!
• Lots of contact, lots of dispatching of contact by elements
• Sustained a lot of contact, reacting to QRF and engaging reinforcements, drawing out forces in a 'defense in depth'.
• Atlas had plenty of tasking and very good medevac procedures.
• We succeeded in gauging the enemy's reaction times (Fast) and level of response (Vast).
• Excellent persistence and passion by Mission Maker Sparrow, unfortunate he was plagued by Battleeye issues

Cons:

• Late planning from myself on the OPORD.
• Repair issues with Viking-2's sierra. Viking-2 definitely got the short straw, apologies.
• I didn't get comms with godfather (was listening on wrong net, 53 as opposed to 50)
• Went unconscious during the 'crucial window', of the feint of the operation. Telinov did VERY well picking up on the intent.
• OP plan was more of a 1-hour timeframe for a feigning attack. I (wrongly) altered the plan to resemble more like an assault, followed by a defence in depth to the QRF. This ended in most contacts being out of small arms range due to terrain. Not as entertaining as it could have been for infantry.
• We were unable to positively identify static AA locations.

 

[Bethea.A]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-3
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Bethea.A

7TH CAVALRY PERSONNEL:
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Teddy.J
Specialist Lewis.A
Specialist Morris.T
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Perea.A

Retired/Public:
RET Houston.T

Pros:

• Had a good time moving in and assisting VIKING-2 in their hour of need.
• Squad performance was excellent. Would have loved to be able to use it.
• I was able to induce nightmares among at least three members of Viking-3. "Mount up! Dismount!"

Cons:

• Feint attack didn't feel like a feint in execution. 6's intent altered mid op which was good but it turned into a fallback which was not needed. We had the upper hand.
• Lack of contact/activities for infantry.
• Scope was off for amount of assets. Primary intent was too short for WFW.
• For what engagements were available, the Stryker was really the only one that could engage reliably. Range was extreme for infantry.

 

[Mason.H]

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

Cav Members:
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C (BISON-1)
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R (BISON-1)

Pros:

• Quite action-heavy with lots of contact.
• Bison crew not trained on new CAS procedures, however they adapted quickly and prosecuted several targets. Highly commendable!

Cons:

• Previous OP gave us Reaper and Raider. In this OP (continuing from last OP) we are pushing enemy SAM territory with only Bison slots available.
• Bison crew suffered several technical difficulties/delays with the newer complicated Bison aircraft. This severely reduced their time on station.
• Plan was not written until last minute, made it difficult to plan expected CAS environment as Chaos element.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: BISON-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R 'Houston'

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

• N/A

Pros:

• Had a great time and lots of fun with our friends.
• Co-Pilot did a really fantastic job, (even though it was Bloggins.R lol). Neither he or I are really versed in the new FAC stuff, but we managed. #ImproviseAdaptOvercome.

Cons:

• Messy, ill-prepared OPORD. Briefing was sub-optimal. Planning was definitely an issue on this one bros.
• Very, very, very difficult issues with the 114k Hellfires. First they would not lock from the outset of the mission. Then we got frustrated and [foolishly] attempted a Hydra rocket run, but the overwhelming AA shot us down [SAM], but were able to auto-rotate land and live. Then we get another bird, and magically, the Hellfires are working properly, so we got multiple kills. Then we RTB for re-arm and all of a sudden, Hellfires aren't working again. It would be really nice if Alpha Co. could figure out what the problem is here, or AT LEAST A FIX so that BISON can be used effectively with Hellfires. I was told this has something to do with the laser, but I never have a problem with BISON on regular TacR or Eden Editor, so hmmm, who knows. We need to figure it out though. #Testing.
• I did accidentally violate the ROZ a couple times, but this map is so small, the bird moves so fast.
• Ammo truck had no ammo. This really shouldn't ever happen because then we have to trouble Godfather.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Armitage.T for processing.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operation Updated