AAR ARMA 3 | November 2023 Warfare Wednesday | WFW 214

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 214
Number Within Campaign: 2/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 08NOV23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Beiter.A


Attendees: 32
Captain Highman.J
First Lieutenant Beiter.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Tucker.C
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Corporal Mac.S
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Davis.D
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Grizzle.M
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Mason.H
Specialist Taylor.D
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Swift.R
Private First Class Stevenson.T
Private Rutkowski.P

 

[Grizzle.M]

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

Element Callsign: Bison and Chaos
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Grizzle.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Corporal Davis.D
Specialist Mason.H
Private First Class Stevenson.T

Pros:
Good engagements and work between Bison and Chaos
Good 5-lines both from Chaos and returns from Bison
Great pilot/co-pilot comms and coop with engagements


Cons:
Cargo creates too large, should utilize smaller ones (the larger cargo net create hit the rotor blades)
Have resupply list requested to Godfather not aviation
Hatchet issues with aircrafts not being loaded with ammo and unrepairable damage
Confusion with addition of Bison-2 late in Op

 

[Velasquez.J]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas1
Element Leader: Corporal Velasquez.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Maco.D
Res.Caboose.T
SPC.Taylor.D
PFC.Swift.R

Non-7Cav Personnel:
Expendable-Joe

Pros:

• A good amount of work with surgeries and injuries and consistency.
• The vehicle has a good loadout.
• Team cohesion with patient care was great.
• No black casualties in our care.
• No server issues with connections and logouts
• We used alternative communication with misfit-7

Cons:

• Radio issue with leadership due to technical issues.
• Last objective was chaotic
• Lack of organization with radio calls.
• A bit longer with the operation

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Phillips.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Second Lieutenant Searle.I
• Staff Sergeant Narramoor.A
• Staff Sergeant Phillips.B

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

• N/A

Pros:

• Yay Humvees!
• Resupply
  • Solid reconsolidation
• Contact
  • Plentiful
  • Challenging
• Stayed Alive
• Zeus Assistance
  • Time to Target to ARMA issues was great

Cons:

• QRF
  • More dynamic entry than driving down the street at us
• Platoon Communication
  • Wrong Net bleed from TFAR keying
  • Contact Reports lacking/non-existent
  • Intent following contact was blurry
• Platoon Planning (OBJ2)
  • Assaulting Prepared Positions from the front
  • Parked at the front door and they shot us through it
• Public Interaction
  • Public player walked a km just before ENDEX

 

[Winters.R]

Element Callsign: Mistfit-7
Element Leader: Specialist Winters.R

Pros:

• Some spicy fights
• Resolving the communications breakdown with backup communications via Android text messages
• ALTAS-1 was responsive to calls
• ATLAS-1 getting surgery experience
• Low black causalities within ATLAS-1 care
• Platoon net working well

Cons

• Communications breakdown due to technical difficulties between ATLAS-1 and MISFIT-7
• MISFIT-1 was cut off and squad wiped before MISTFIT-7 knew what was happening
• Slow down after Objective 1

 

[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 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Grizzle.M
Pros:

• Really great time and really great mission.
• Always recommend advertising a second bird so we can have a two-ship for numerous reasons, ISR, backup, security, CSAR etc. Having only 1 bird a) limits mission options and b) limits ability to populate the server on our most popular day of the week...aka, more people can have more fun.
• Great comms with MISFIT-5 Hilberg.A
• Great comms with my CP/G Grizzle.M
• Extremely aggressive fire and prosecution of targests with deadly effects when designated by CHAOS.
• Although somewhat delayed for good reasons, the resupply was executed well.
  

Cons:

• OPORD was incomplete, messy, and just not good. But of course we managed well.
• Pre-made resupply crates need to be A) SMALLER CRATES and B) Pre-made with variety of anything ground forces might want. We have 8 slots on Blackhawk to get those things in there... weight be damned, it can easily be managed even with full troop loadout. They can also easily be airdropped from high OR low altitudes. The large crates impact and damage/destroy the main rotor, so huge emphasis on using the smaller crates to avoid obvious trouble as evidenced tonight. Using the large crates reminds me of my girlfriend jam-packing one garbage bag full of trash when she can simply use 2 or 3 trash bags to accomplish the same thing and avoid having issues or trouble.

 

[Tucker.C]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Tucker.C

Individuals in Element:
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Sergeant Crowley.T
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Woods.K

Non-7Cav-Personnel:
RET.Houston.T
RET.York.A
Brock

Pros:

• Individual squad work was good.
• Good convoy work.
• First objective went smoothly.
• Good work from the squad CLS.

Cons:

• Reorganization, medical treatment, rearm and resupply at the first objective took way too long.
• We rolled into an enemy hardened objective without any ISR or leader's recon, causing the convoy to roll directly into an enemy checkpoint.
• Ambush of the convoy resulted in a miscommunication/incorrect order to 'push to the town/push to contact' which caused Misfit-1 to get smoked.
• Full squad wipe for the first time in... I don't remember.
• Use of OPFOR equipment almost causing Blue-on-Blue.
• Sparrow can't drive.

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Mullins.R for processing.

 

[Groves.A]

S1 Operations processed.