AAR ARMA 3 | October Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 211

[Sparrow.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 211
Number Within Campaign: 3/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 18OCT23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission Controller: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Beiter.A

Attendees: 41
Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P
Captain Mackey.A
First Lieutenant Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Second Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Tucker.C
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Narramoor.A
Staff Sergeant Oldham.G
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Vincent.L
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Nomad.P
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Telinov.V
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Franklin.J
Reservist Caboose.T
Specialist Harsh.M
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Mason.H
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Singhal.P
Private First Class Taylor.D
Reservist Mariani.S

Retired / Non-Cav Attendees
RET.SGT.Blake.H
CCWO J.Swan
Dr.Wierd
Expendable Joe
Mouldy

 

[Burton.P]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas 1
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Taylor.D
Lieutenant Colonel Burton.P

Pros:

• Lot of casualties to treat
• Many many reds and yellows with broken limbs
• Lots of fun times

Cons:

• AED didn't work
• Too bunched up at times

 

[Lee.RA]

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

Element Callsign: Lightning Flight
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W

Pros:

• Got good flight time with 2 Fixed Wing aircraft
• Had fun with CAS and Air to Air Engagements
• Great job by the JTAC's
• Got to Flaten a FOB at mission start

Cons:

• Not 100% use to or liking the new way CAS is done now over how it was previously implemented

 

[Tucker.C]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Tucker.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Bethea.A
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Staff Sergeant Oldham.G
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Crowley.T
Corporal Zaren.T
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Mobius.T

Pros:

• We had fun. This group is a prime example of the best of the best. Very happy to have been able to run with them. Great individual trooper discipline and skill.
• Contact started out as fun and enjoyable, but became overwhelming and exhausting.
• CQB and MOUT work was done extremely well tonight, even with the sheer level of casualties.
• We snagged that HVT!
• CH-47 drop was amazing. Excellent deployment by Bandit-1 and Bandit-2 on the drop, and excellent work moving to the FOB from there. Clean run on a HOT LZ. Give me more CH-47s.
• No black tags.
• Amazing CLS work tonight by Mobius. He kept many of us alive.
• Great cross loading between squad members, and the platoon. Excellent work at dispersing resupply.

Cons:

• Blue-on-blue occurred north of POI5 during a building clearance. Reports state that CHAOS was the culprit here. Support assets should not be clearing buildings on their own.
• Android device continues to crash games. Be aware.
• FPS slowdowns were crippling within such a dynamic and tight CQB environment.
• Intermingled units and crossing fields of fire. We desperately needed designated lanes.
• FRACTURES. (Medical settings need to be adjusted. Most of the time, I was combat ineffective due to waiting on getting my guys back to fighting strength.)
• In addition to the above point, ATLAS seemed slow tonight in getting our guys back to fighting strength. We'd typically have ATLAS on station relatively quickly; however, it took forever to get us functional again.
• Contact was absolutely insane. We had over 150 kills within our squad alone.
• ATLAS was ahead of us during the assault on POI2.
• We were almost friendly-fired by Bandit-4 at POI2 with a MAAWS round that engaged an enemy vehicle that was dangerously close to my fireteams.
• Low rotary turn out.

 

[Sawyer.H]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo 1/Grizzly 1
Element Leader: SPC Sawyer.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
2LT Thumper.N
SPC Sawyer.H

Honorary Grizzly Pilot
SPC Mason.H

Pros:

• Good overall mission, stayed busy thanks to Bandit 5
• Was fun to fly the Grizzly on insert during night time.
• Got to do some gunning at the end which is always fun.
• Use of the FARP made a massive difference with comms.

Cons:

• Short on pilots, wasn't able to outfit Raiders and Buffalos as planned
• Was only 2 re-inserts. 1 of which was a DC. Die more

 

[Mason.H]

Element Callsign: CHAOS
Element Leader: Specialist Mason.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Specialist Mason.H
• Corporal Nomad.P

Pros:

• Fair amount of area to ISR and pop up trucks/infantry to target and bomb.
• Great start Corporal Nomad.P first time as new CHAOS.
• Excellent adaptation to use 2x CH-47s (with CHAOS 1 as temporary pilot) for initial insertion when only 1 Buff pilot attended in beginning.

Cons:

• Plan was for ~2 Apaches + 1 Lightning, but attendance only allowed for 0 apaches + 2 Lightnings.
• Urban environment, at night, with low fps on server; difficult environment to work from with lots of shouting and occasionally blue on blue.

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-5
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Narramoor.A

Pros

• Excellent working with the one Buffalo we did have, SPC.Sawyer.H
• Thank you to S3 for getting things operational again, the quality of life improvements from the mods are also a welcome change.
• Great mission making by CW2.Sparrow.P
• Great planning by 1LT.Beiter.A, and great subsequent pace in execution from all of the elements. Individuals demonstrated high skill, maintained common sense and awareness.
• Fast & efficient rearm from the platoon, with adequate guard on the LZs.

Cons

• Low rotary aviation turnout, led to the use of the dreaded Grizzlies
• Failed on to take up 2IC, be sure to communicate 6 being down on the net.
• Object/AI density caused a little chug (even for the the windows VM)
• I should have effectively designated reconsolidation blocking/defence position so the platoon wasn't pooled together

 

[Telinov.V]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-4
Element Leader: Corporal Telinov.V

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Vincent.L
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Zander.D
Reservist Caboose.T
Specialist Rodahl.S
Private First Class Swift.R

Non 7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Dr. Weird
Mouldy

Pros:

-Quite a lot of fighting and closer quarters for a weapons squad to engage which was fun, our troopers got to get into the thick of it which weapons generally don't get to do.
-Good Squad to Squad comms Bandits 1,2 and 4 communicating well with each other throughout the assault.
- Thank you so much S3 for getting everything sorted and all the work you put in for such a short amount of time to turn it over to allow for us to play this operation, much appreciated.

Cons:
-Initial LZ was questionable and our fallback plan for it was not addressed if it went bad, bandit-4 being the only squad to move north to not get bogged down if the LZ turned into a bogged down situation.
-Initial SBF was not very applicable for weapons, though I could not see a better one.
-Lack of verticality for Weapons to take advantage of throughout the operation.
-We need much better laser and light discipline across all squads.
-Too many troopers crossing in front of MGs without calling crossing which lead to my MG gunners being more passive out of fear of Blue on Blue incidents.
-MG Gunner slots not able to access Sidearms in Arsenal and were not spawned with one.
-MG Ammo bearer slot was unable to access Arsenal saying the slot did not have permissions.
-FTL slots lot having access to getting packing or quickclot bandages in Arsenal and did not spawn with them.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Mullins.R for processing.

 

[Mullins.R]

S1 Operations Processed.

Note: Both Reservist Caboose.T and Reservist Mariani.S do not receive operational credit under 7CAV-R-035.