AAR ARMA 3 | November 2023 Warfare Wednesday | WFW 215

[Tucker.C]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 215
Number Within Campaign: 3/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 15NOV23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Tucker.C, Sergeant Hilberg.A
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Sam.T


Attendees: 36

Colonel LaCombe.M
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
First Lieutenant Beiter.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Tucker.C
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
Warrant Officer 1 Grizzle.M
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Hilberg.A
Corporal Dixon.E
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Spin.M
Specialist Beta.P
Specialist Dray.T
Specialist Mason.H
Specialist Mitchell.B
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Stevenson.T
Private First Class Swift.R
Private Kurt.B
Private Rutkowski.P
Private Oscar.S

Non-Cav:
DISCH.Binks.J
Expendable_Joe

 

[Sparrow.P]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Second Lieutenant Searle.I
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
Specialist Dray.T
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist Xinos.T


Pros:

• Fun
• Good Job as a squad
• Plan was good

Cons:

• Low Turnout
• Medical Bugs
• A little loosie Goose with command

 

[Dread.M]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-3/GRIZZLY-2
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Warrant Officer 1 Grizzle.M

Pros:

• Stayed busy the entire operation doing inserts, loved it
• Hot LZ, loved it
• Engaged by AA threats throughout, loved it
• Good mission design for RW

Cons:

• A lot of disconnects tonight
• The demo block in the kits aren't enough to "det" a MH airframe
• Low turnout

 

[Spin.M]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: CPL Spin.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
1SG Summerfield.P


Pros:
Great mission and OPORD/briefing
Great pace/timing/etc
Good amount of AA/AAA/threats to the airframes
great flight comms and updates from other aircraft about the situation on the ground



Cons:
Not too much minus some disconnection issues, nothing negative on the mission side of the house... great missions!

 

[Fox.Z]

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

Element Callsign: MISFIT-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Fox.Z

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Westcott R
Specialist Beta.P
Private Kurt.B
DISCH.Binks.J

Pros:

• Fun little 4-5 man team
• Punched above our weight effectively for the most part
• Excellent reaction to IDF in our squad. Took some extremely close impacts but nobody ever went down.
• For such a low strength squad, we had 0 black tags. Plenty of injuries and Red Tags, but 0 Black.

Cons:

• Got stuck in OBJ1. Lost scenario flow when 6 went down, got bogged down with enemy armor having direct line of sight to friendly positions.
• 4 man team meant every engagement could potentially be a squad wiping engagement, but it is what it is.

- Suggest moving WFW forward an hour to account for DLS time changes and hopefully improve attendance.

Shoutout to Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H as 7 and Corporal Velasquez.J in Atlas for coming to our Squad's aid when we were bogged down. At times, they were the only thing that kept us fighting.

 

[Dixon.E]

Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: Corporal Dixon.E

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Swift.R
Corporal Velasquez.J

Non 7th Cavalry Personnel:
Expandable_Joe

Pros:

• Great op with lots of medical
• We worked really good as a squad and had a fast response time
• Great OPORD with the small things that makes it fun.
• Few blacktags
• Great server performance

Cons:

• Need to work on keeping track of our battle buddies which caused one black tag
• Medical bugs with people dying with heartrate and low blood loss + AED broken

 

[Mason.H]

Element Callsign: CHAOS
Element Leader: Specialist Mason.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Mason.H
Private First Class Stevenson.T

Pros:

• Plenty of targets to engage whilst still leaving lots for infantry too, was awesome!
• Hogs 1 and 2 for ISR and finding targets relevant to AO, meanwhile Lightning constantly finding and engaging AAA threats, great combo!
• IDF caused by mortars that we could locate and eliminate, rather than zeus bombs, love it.

Cons:

• Tanks placed under camo netting (great idea) unfortunately arma3 issue, negated bombs and explosion damage, making tanks invincible.
• Igla Turret with plenty of individual Igla soldiers around, great to increase difficulty, but ALMOST too much to handle. Damaged Hogs several times.

 

[Mitchell.B]

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

Element Callsign: LIGHTNING
Element Leader: SPC Mitchell.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Mitchell.B


Pros:
Great mission, good amount of targets, and good air comms



Cons:
Nothing really

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Sam.T



Pros:

• The platoon successfully completed the primary mission tasks despite multiple compounding challenges.
• Considering the number of casualties we took, Atlas was super on the ball tonight!
• Resupply was prompt and effective during OBJ 1.
• HVT was successfully extracted.
• JTAR and deliberate strikes were successful.

Cons:

• The terrain was not conducive to effective maneuver (this was especially evident with the weapons squad).
• Low turnout compounded the inherent challenge of mitigating OPFOR resistance over unfavorable terrain.
• A few break downs in communication due to people going down, being on the wrong net, etc...

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to White.N for processing.

 

[Searle.I]

Element Callsign: MISFIT-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Warrant Officer 1 Lee.RA
Specialist Dray.T
Specialist Woods.K
Specialist Xinos.T


Pros:

• Fun
• Good Job as a squad
• Plan was good

Cons:

• Low Turnout
• Medical Bugs
• A little loosie Goose with command

I think you forgot me here

 

[White.N]

S1 Operations processed.