AAR ARMA 3 Public | Campaign Sandstorm | Operation Rusty Musket

[Geki.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Rusty Musket
Number Within Campaign: 3/3
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 17SEP23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission Controller: 1SG.Geki.T
Mission OIC: 1LT.Knights.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel
Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P
Major Stewart.B
Captain Gerrish.T
First Lieutenant Knights.Z
First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dujakovic.R
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
First Sergeant Geki.T
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Sergeant Armitage.T
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Vincent.L
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Harris.M
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Saint.Z
Corporal Stuart.Z
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Turn.J
Corporal York.KC
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Zaren.T
Corporal Kamenar.M
Specialist Fisher.S
Specialist Jager.J
Specialist Keith.W
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Mac.S
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Eugene.R
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Turner.L
Specialist West.Z
Specialist Gutierrez.E
Specialist Spin.M
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist DeBeen.N
Private First Class Sawyer.H
Private First Class Walker.R
Private First Class Dray.T
Private First Class Palumbo.P
Private First Class Taylor.D
Private Swift.R
Private Zamora.K
Private Kinman.C


Saint.Z
Blake.H
Houston.T
Cox.Y

 

[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:
Private First Class Dray.T
Private First Class Taylor.D
Specialist Eugene.R
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H

Pros:
The few KAT injuries that Atlas worked on were great to see
RTOs were great on comms
Good banter

Cons:
Lack of casualties
Convoy was pretty lackluster
Perm issues for CLS roles caused unnecessary deaths

 

[Maco.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-2
Element Leader: Corporal Maco.D/ Major Stewart.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Stewart.B
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Albright.J
Specialist DeBeen.N

Pros:
Team showed skills with KAT medical effectively
Members that not used KAT before showed quick and open to learning

Cons:
Server issues
Medical was low to the point of laughable
With the months of planning for these Ops I feel it did not give the best chance to showcase the KAT Mod
Perm issues for CLS''s resulted in many black tags
At times was idle for over 45 mins.
Felt like we was just roaming about pointlessly at times.


Note: I want to thanks all of 1/B/1-7 for all their hard work learning this mod.
To S3 zeus's for helping support over the weekend.
To Beiter for taking my idea and making it come around to a complete

 

[Sawyer.H]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: PFC Sawyer.H

7th Cavalry Personnel
SPC Woods, K.
PFC Sawyer, H.

Public Players:
xdxd

Pros:
was busy with re-inserts for the majority of the OP.
comms were good with Viking 5 once established.

Cons:
no contact with Viking 5 for the first 40-45 minutes.
resupply missions would have been nice to help with downtime.
if there weren't so many disconnects we'd probably not have left the MOB at all.
downtime to get new LZs when Viking element was moving delaying re-insertions.

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: Viking-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Kamenar.M
Corporal Dio.B
Specialist Fisher.S
Corporal Stuart.Z
Specialist Keith.W
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Mobius.T
Specialist Gutierrez.E

Pros:

• 1990's good setting
• Good Squad comms
• Good mission

Cons:

• Missing equipment (TOW's, M2's, MK19s,) for static use at SBF
• M113A is kinda awful
• Not enough contact
• Server issues
• Zeus crashes prevent more engaging AO's
• Wrong model for M72 LAW, AT-4 should be in Arsenal, M4 as well for pilots and sierra crew.
• Atlis treating yellow none priority casualties while under accurate enemy fire.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-3
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
• Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
• Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
• Sergeant Fox.Z
• Sergeant Hilberg.A
• Specialist Casey.W
• Private First Class Walker.R
• Private Kinman.C
• Private Swift.R
• Sergeant First Class Houston.T (RET)
• Corporal Saint.Z (ELOA)

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
• MOUT
  • Building manned? Building take. Good.
• FRAGO
  • Quick and Efficient
  • Executed well
• Platoon Attack
  • Solid conduct for both objectives
  • Lots of directed fire

Cons:

• Server Issues
  • Can explain away a lot of issues
  • Hands down ruined much of this last operation of the campaign
  • Zeus Disconnects (More Zeus Redundancy?)
• Contact
  • Lack of for the most part
  • Considering we had a reinforced platoon of shooters, just not enough work
• Permissions
  • Still need tweaking but hopefully fixed for future tests
• Blue-on-Blue
  • PID still lacking

 

[Spin.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: RAIDER-1
Element Leader: SPC. Spin.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CW2 Villmarsson.L

Pros:
Good coordination with CHAOS, clear instructions
Great inter-flight comms and comms with REAPER
Great communication and shooting from Vill as the gunner
Ability to relay for or with reaper when comms did have issues
90's era gear and such is always cool

Cons:
Not too much to shoot
REAPER was called in more than RAIDER
Comms issues due to distance and terrtain
Did not have IHADS at the beginning

 

[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

Pros

• Love the era, both the immersion and also the challenges it introduces.
• Enjoyed getting the back-line tasks done in tandem with -7
• Really good comms from the RTOs within the Viking Elements
• Excellent SL/FTL actions throughout the OP, and more specifically excellent independent action on Objective 2
• Turnout of 73+ people! Always good to see, hope to see the return of the DB / 7thAD players.

Cons

• High amount of disconnects/crashing, what are the causes of this?
• Blue on Blue is a consistent trend over these last few Ops, unacceptable. There's no excuse to not PID when engaging at ranges over 400m.
• Felt like contact level was light
• In the context of this campaign and other operations that employ no short-range radios. Utilising the CEOI and only being able to observe 2 radio channels at once is difficult and likely not fit for purpose. I was switching between listening in on the Platoon Net, Vehicle Net, Air to Ground Net and Command net to troubleshoot issues.
  • I wanted to extend my apologies to Buffalo 1 for not being contactable for the first 40 minutes of the OP.

 

[Zander.D]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: CPL.Zander.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SFC.Abate.L
SGT.Crowley.T
CPL.Harris.M
SPC.Facklam.E
SPC.Mac.S
SPC.Rodahl.S
PFC.Palumbo.P

Public Players:
SGT.Blake.H [RET]
Dr Weird
Cpl James
Pros:

• Good comms
• Good echoing orders
• Good fast mounts
• KAT working
• Good succesion of command
• Good squad composition; "good company"
• Good turnout for the op; 73+ people

Cons:

• Technical issues: mass crashes, mass disconnects, 300+ seconds to rejoin
• Almost no contact. (Six squad members never fired at an enemy.)
• 3x incidents of receiving friendly fire, twice at close range, twice during daylight
• Hurry up & wait
• No DAGRs for FTLs
• Too much on 6's and 5's plates; delegation of tasking?
• A Zeus TP'd person in Viking-1's vehicle, causing the vehicle to TP almost into a friendly squad.
• Slow reinserts because no LZ marked
• Endex flybys need to happen immediately at endex and not mid squad AAR as they are disruptive

 

[Armitage.T]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Armitage.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P
Captain Gerrish.T
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Sergeant Armitage.T
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Turn.J
Corporal York.KC
Specialist Jager.J
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Turner.L
Private Zamora.K

Pros

• Some individuals only had pro's, no cons
• Overall good op
• 90's gear was interesting
• Groups were really well synced
• Everyone was doing their job
• Good comms for medical

Cons

• Comms with vehicle
• A bit of down time
• Enemies were a bit too concealed
• Vehicle was not great
• Vic gunner didn't get to do much
• People continually got kicked
• Re-inserts were slow
• Light contact
• Time on target area was long

 

[Knights.Z]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Knights.Z

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

Pros:

• Completed mission
• Guard element succeeded in protecting platoon on the move

Cons:

• People had connection issues that caused them to be kicked constantly
• Contact initiated too early during 1st objective attack

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Mobius.T for processing.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operation Updated