AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Thundering Herd | Operation Sand Bird - Phase 1

[Geki.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Sand Bird
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): Campaign Thundering Herd
Number within campaign: 1/6
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TS1
Date of Combat Mission: 24SEP23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1630z
Mission OIC: Major Stewart.B
Mission Controller: First Sergeant Geki.T

7th Cavalry Personnel In Attendance:
Major Stewart.B
Major Dread.M
First Lieutenant Highman.J
First Sergeant Geki.T
Master Sergeant Zimm.L
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Sergeant First Class Fields.Q
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Morton.Q
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Vincent.L
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
Corporal Priest.V
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Taylor.C
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Moore-Allen.D
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Walker.H
Specialist Mac.S
Specialist Fougere.J
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist Ahsan.N
Specialist Morris.T
Specialist Bassett.C
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Budz.P
Private First Class Dray.T
Private First Class Harris.A

 

[Narramoor.A]

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Narramoor.A


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Specialist Mac.S
• Specialist Fougere.J
• Sergeant First Class Abate.L
• Corporal Dio.B
• Private First Class Harris.A
• Sergeant First Class Fields.Q

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

• RET SGT.Blake

Pros:

• Good CQB work
  Good Succession of Command
  Good Pace
  Good Teamwork
  Good Drop
  Excellent fast plan from Stewart
  Unconventional fast OP & hybrid Charlie/Bravo style led to an authentically new and interesting environment.

Cons:

• I shattered my cervical spine and all my limbs in the drop
• No cons

 

[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:
Master Sergeant Zimm.L
Corporal Albright.J

Pros:
Jump went off well
Lots of surgeries

Cons:
Troopers leaving while under Atlas care

 

[Walker.H]

Element Callsign: Hog-1 and Hog-2
Element Leader: Specialist Walker.H


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Specialist Walker.H
• Private First Class Dray.T

Pros:

• We did good runs
• It was a great learning experience for Dray and I
• flights were clean
• No friendly casualties from hog

Cons:

• Coms were rough
• Slow in areas that can be fixed
• Had problems with visuals on enemy

 

[Taylor.C]

Element Callsign: Bandit-4
Element Leader: Corporal Taylor.C


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Corporal Teddy.J
• Specialist Ahsan.N
• Corporal Mobius.T
• Corporal Kastor.K
• Major Dread.M
• Corporal Moore-Allen.D

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

Pros:

• Good Job on mission
• Quick DZ and Quick Mission Completion
• Dread was an excellent driver
• Mobius and Teddy did an excellent job at taking over command of the squad when taylor fell out the sky
• Good unit size for mission

Cons:

• Poor planning, no 2IC selection
• infantry didn't have much to engage.

 

[Priest.V]

Element Callsign: Chaos 1&2
Element Leader: Corporal Priest.V


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Priest.V
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A

Pros:
Great Mission concept, planning, and brief
Persistence across missions in the campaign/realistic
Initial drop well planned, briefed and executed, all 30 dropped in 1 pass.

Cons:

FAC/JTAC loadout has been incorrectly updated, ANDROID replaced with TABLET
(not viable as cannot have minimised whilst moving) should not be the loadout standard
Server crash
Comm issues, struggled to get air assets involved early, lots of teething issues/non winged pilots

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: Bandit-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Vincent.L


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Specialist Morris.T
• Corporal Lucander.P
• Specialist Bassett.C
• Specialist Lee.H
• Specialist Casey.W
• Specialist Budz.P

Retired Memebers

• RET.Vermeulen.A
• RET.Houston.T

Pros:

• Good Squad movement
• Good Squad Comms
• Good violence of action

Cons:

• Mission planning was done very quickly
• Strykers for Charlie Co OP?

 

[Highman.J]

Element Callsign: TITAN
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Highman.J


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
• Chief Warrant Officer 2 Morton.Q
• Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L

Pros:

• Excellent paradrop of infantry, from the Jumpmaster Briefing to loading to the flight, and ending with a good jump
• Always good to use the C17 or C130 to LAPES drop cargo
• Fun time for our fixed wing pilots

Cons:

• Server performance, obviously
• To use air or LAPES drops, we need a specific aircraft and a very specific loading script. Simply Zeusing them into the aircraft won't allow the dropping. It is no hardship for us to have the aircraft and the vehicles separated and we can do the loading on the spot at mission start

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Mobius.T for processing.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operations Processed