AAR ARMA 3 Public | Campaign Sandstorm | Operation Smoking Gun

[Bethea.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Smoking Gun
Number Within Campaign: 2/3
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 16SEP23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000z
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Beiter.A | Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Mission OIC: Colonel LaCombe.M

7th Cavalry Personnel: 78

1. Brigadier General Tharen.R
2. Colonel LaCombe.M
3. Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P
4. Major Stewart.B
5. First Lieutenant Beiter.A
6. First Lieutenant Mackey.A
7. Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
8. Second Lieutenant Thumper.N
9. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
10. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J
11. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
12. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
13. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
14. Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
15. Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
16. First Sergeant Jupiter.J
17. Master Sergeant Zimm.L
18. Sergeant First Class Abate.L
19. Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
20. Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
21. Staff Sergeant Stewart.AJ
22. Sergeant Crowley.T
23. Sergeant Fox.Z
24. Sergeant Narramoor.A
25. Corporal Armitage.T
26. Corporal Black.A
27. Corporal Dio.B
28. Corporal Gann.T
29. Corporal Harris.M
30. Corporal Holiday.T
31. Corporal Kastor.K
32. Corporal Maco.D
33. Corporal Moore-Allen.D
34. Corporal Mobius.T
35. Corporal Saint.Z
36. Corporal Teddy.J
37. Corporal Turn.J
38. Corporal Zander.D
39. Corporal Zaren.T
40. Specialist Almaguer.R
41. Specialist Arnesen.B
42. Specialist Casey.W
43. Specialist DeBeen.N
44. Specialist Eugene.R
45. Specialist Evgeny.K
46. Specialist Krupa.W
47. Specialist Rodahl.S
48. Specialist Bishop.C
49. Specialist Turner.L
50. Specialist Woods.K
51. Private First Class Dray.T
52. Private First Class Mason.H
53. Private First Class Sawyer.H
54. Private First Class Taylor.D
55. Private Walker.H
56. Private Zamora.K

Retired/Public:

1. SGT.Blake.H
2. SFC.Houston.T
3. CPL.York.A
4. DB GabTech
5. 79AD Magmatic Fish
6. 79AD Owl
7. 79AD S.Spartan
8. DB Arthor
9. DB Horsey
10. DB Lavndr
11. DB Modularcupid
12. DB Weasel Hammer
13. DB Pumpkinman
14. DB TheBarber
15. DB Spitfire
16. CWO3 J.Swan
17. DB Fluffy
18. DB HOOMAN
19. Snope
20. Trsutworthy Guy
21. Tuuslar

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo Flight
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Nate 'Justicar' Thumper - Buffalo-1 Pilot/Flight Leader
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Phillip 'Pinball' Sparrow - Buffalo-1 Crew Chief
Warrant Officer 1 Adrian 'Bait' Lindsay - Buffalo-1 Co-Pilot
Warrant Officer 1 Chris 'Hooker' Hamm - Buffalo-2 Pilot
Warrant Officer 1 Roy 'Houston' Bloggins - Buffalo-2 Crew Chief
Private First Class Sawyer.H - Buffalo-3 Pilot
Corporal Dio.B - Buffalo-3 Crew Chief

Public Players:
xdxd - Buffalo-3 Door Gunner
Fluffy - Buffalo-4 Pilot
Gab "Wrecker" - Buffalo-4 Crew
S.Spartan - Buffalo-4 Crew
[79AD] Owl - Buffalo-4 Crew

Pros:

• Turn out was great, roughly 80 players.
• Concept was ambitious.

Cons:

• Not much to actually do for 3/4 ships, understandably there was a need for the amount of ground units, but it was only for transporting to and from.
  • Side missions from an Air Zeus would be perferable to sitting doing nothing for hours.
• Visibility with 90's NODs was extremely poor from all positions creating.
  • Flying approaches and lower level was extremely difficult, as was spotting targets.
• Comms were difficult given the distance from FOB to AO.
  • Having a FARP half way between would have been ideal, and should be considered in the future as common practice.

 

[LaCombe.M]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-6
Element Leader: Colonel LaCombe.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• Good turn out
• Movement throughout objectives was good
• Mostly good comms
• Breaking contact went relatively well

Cons:

• Op was scheduled too soon after CSC (addressed with S3 for future ops)
• Extended time at base
• Land nav was deficient in general
• LZs too far from AO. Preferred tactically but enjoyment suffered as a result
• Birds on the ground far too long at PZs
• Lost comms intermittently with Misfit 1 and Misfit 4/Gun 1 but comms were more good than bad overall
• Comms were cluttered being on mostly one net and traffic was not properly prioritized

 

[Holiday.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: CPL.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SFC.Zimm.L
PFC.Taylor.D
SPC.Eugene.R
SPC.Blade.B

Pros:
Great environment
Members enjoyed working through the new medical system

Cons:
Helicopters took way too long to get off the ground
Overextended the squad and got pushed pretty hard by EI
Response times a little slow due to subpar land nav
Atlas abandoned multiple times by infantry squads leading to multiple times where team was almost wiped out

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
• Sergeant Fox.Z
• Sergeant Narramoor.A
• Corporal Mobius.T
• Corporal Teddy.J
• Specialist Almaguer.R
• Specialist Arnesen.B
• Specialist Casey.W
• Specialist DeBeen.N

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

• N/A

Pros:

• Company
  • Good dudes make good company
• Theme/Era
  • It shocks me how little of this era we do vs. how much people love it
  • Give me MORE
• Internal Communication
  • Consistanly improving communication with technical limitations
  • If we did any more of these, we'd be pros
• CLS
  • Improved CLS mindset of importance
  • Saved more than one person with quick medical treatment

Cons:

• Length
  • 1 hour to reach first OBJ
  • 3 hours to reach second OBJ
  • CSC happening just prior made the OIC start brief 5 minutes before normal kickoff
• Platoon Movement
  • Spacing between squad and basic navigation was rough
  • Overtaking lead squads without any communication just shouldn't happen?
• Platoon Communication
  • Platoon communication was not great throughout
  • Couldn't tell if 6 was down to take Platoon because of non-answers
  • Platoon intent was always in question
• Disconnects
  • Many with varied reasons
• LZ Distance
  • Insane amount of walking to objective for reinserts
  • New ones were never made after objective engaged
  • Disconnects made to spend much of the operation walking/traveling back to the operation
  • Aircraft travel distance necessitated a FARP
• AI Skill
  • Individual engagements felt unfair at times
  • Very accurate with snapping seen
• Blue-on-Blue
  • Continue to lack efficient PID

 

[Sam.T]

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

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


Pros:

• An excellent number of casualties.
• Decent movement for the Atlas teams.
• Good MOUT work during the break-contact on AOI-1 from Atlas during the "peel."
• Some CLSs were very "on-the-ball".
• This was probably the most cinematic of the operations over the weekend.

Cons:

• This operation was definitely too close to the CSC. This led to an extremely delayed step-off.
• KAT definitely lends itself to a lower contact-higher OPFOR skill environment. Waves of OPFOR can quickly overwhelm BLUFOR once players become less tanky.
• Communication on the platoon level was iffy tonight; lots of folks were spoken over, and messages fell through the cracks.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Xinos.T for processing.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operation Processed