AAR Arma 3 | Operation Fierce Retort

[Tharen.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Fierce Retort
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): N/A
Number within campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Tactical Realism 2
Date of Combat Mission: 10APR21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1800Z
Mission OIC: Colonel Tharen.R
Mission Controller: Sergeant Mazinski.H

Number of Attendees: 40

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Colonel Tharen.R
Captain Storm.A
First Lieutenant Ronen.R
Second Lieutenant Hobbs.T
Second Lieutenant Moraru.R
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Skeith.J
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Langlois.R
Warrant Officer 1 Lindsay.A
Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Master Sergeant Schmidt.A
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Staff Sergeant Coots.J
Staff Sergeant Jupiter.J
Sergeant Couvillion.T
Sergeant Gates.A
Sergeant Goel.B
Sergeant Mazinski.H
Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Whitsel.M
Corporal Boyd.M
Corporal Burton.P
Corporal Derry.B
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Gibbs.K
Corporal Guerra.J
Corporal Kamenar.M
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Macdonald.I
Corporal Maco.D
Specialist Chaney.B
Specialist Dio.B
Specialist Dohun.T
Specialist Sorrow.R
Specialist Whitehead.B
Private First Class Bishop.C
Private First Class Grills.A
Private First Class Hackel.B
Private Moon.P
Private Urbanowicz.W
Recruit Sullivan.A

Pros:

• Fun mission with Cav members, 7th Ranger Group, and public players working together to complete all mission objectives
• All 5 hostages safely rescued and returned to base
• Up to 72 players on the server
• Got to do a company level op with good communication and movements for both platoons

Cons:

• 1 accidental friendly fire incident between air and ground
• Support for Misfit's assault on OBJ SILVER could have been better coordinated
• Struggle for some troopers still to check in once on the ground after an airborne drop

If you have medal recommendations, please send a forum PM. If you were missed for attendance, please contact me.

 

[Nexhex.A]

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

Element Callsign: Hitman-7
Element Leader: Sergeant Major Nexhex.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Major Nexhex.A

Pros:

• Good mission, solid challenge
• Achieved our mission goals
• Had good comms within Staff
• Server was very stable

Cons:

• Bad airstrike called in
• Lost comms at beginning due to my own user error

 

[Abbassi.G]

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

Element Callsign: Grizzly-2
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Private First Class Hackel.B

Pros:

• Really positive from aviation point of view, always on taskings with either reinserts/logistics or CAS. Of course the static line was really fun and a unique experience from the rotary standpoint.
  

Cons:

• Some minor negatives, some standard SOP went by the way-side today from aviation internal procedures.

 

[Burton.P]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: Corporal Burton.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Burton.P
Specialist Chaney.B
Private First Class Grills.A
Recruit Sullivan.A
Private First Class Bishop.C *
Sergeant Goel.B


Pros:

• Solid movement
• Decent aggression
• Solid level of contacts

Cons:

• We need to practice airborne ops more. People didn't check in on the ground and had to be prompted, or switched back to squad comms before prompted to by Black Hat.
• SLs need to communicate directly more often in FTXs and ops.
• Slightly undermanned most of the op.

Tharen.R Bishop is the only one eligible for a jump star.

 

[Hobbs.T]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo/Grizzly - 1
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Hobbs.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Hobbs.T
Corporal Derry.B
Corporal Boyd.M

Pros:

• Always had tasking, never had downtime.
• Comms with birds and ground were flawless
• PZ requests were great
• Formation flight was great
• On point emergency landing

Cons:

• Couldn't pull people out from the downed helo when uncon.
• Targets marked with red, friendly marked with orange??
• door gun on UH-60 is still broken....

 

[Maco.D]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas 1
Element Leader: Corporal Dan Maco#

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Ian Macdonald#
Private Patrick Moon


Pros:
Good amount of work for medical slightly less than normal but means everyone is doing their job.
Good Teamwork and comms over SR and LR within Atlas and with platoon medic
Efficient work by medical staff
Platoon medical did a good job with providing info and dispatchs

Cons:
Not best Terrain for a humvee to much of rocky hills
Only one Platoon medic for the whole Company
Check-in procedure was poor. People checking in out of order this is happening with regular members on a regular basic on airborne Ops


SL Note: As we are moving from a private modpack to a 100% workshop modpack. it would make sense to use one modpack with would have everyone on the same page for what we use. Also for joint Ops it would improve from the bottom up for new members also that might try loading into a server with the wrong pack with in turn slot down a kick off time.

 

[Gann.T]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit PL HQ
Element Leader: Corporal Gann.T*

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Coots.J*
Corporal Gibbs.K*

Pros:

• Good communication
• Zero Black casualties
• Medics did very well
• Platoon movements were good
• Squad leaders were awesome

Cons:

• Friendly fire incident
• Took a while to get in the air

 

[Gates.A]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit 4
Element Leader: Sergeant Gates.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Dohun.T
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Whitehead.B
Private Koops.S
Corporal Kamenar.M
Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Couvillion.T
Specialist Dio.B
First Lieutenant Ronen.R
Reservist Helland.N
Specialist Hunter.A


Pros:

• Great attendance which allowed for a company sized operation
• Awesome to have the 7th Rangers joining us. That's been 2 good operations with them so far. Hope there are more to come!
• No matter how chaotic, airborne jumps are always cool
• Great succession by Saint when my connection dropped.
• Very happy to see Dohun stepping up to FTL and learning a lot
• Splitting up of the gun teams was nice to see, Alpha said they worked well with Misfit 1
• Lots of 7.62 rounds expended

Cons:

• Chaotic landing. Check-in procedure was a mess again. And this is happening with experienced troopers that really should know better
• Bandit 4 lost 1 of their 240Bs to disconnect at the start. Had a hard time disengaging from contact as we moved to the DZ RP.
• Weapons Squad generally feels like an afterthought in most objectives and movements. In addition to already being on the heavier side, we're also nearly always the trailing element which gives us no time to properly set up and support manuever elements that are often already well into contact or their manuevers by the time we are set up.
• Bandit 4 received no medical support when their SBF was hit during Obj 2.

 

[Storm.A]

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

Element Callsign: Hitman-5
Element Leader: Captain Storm.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Storm.A

Pros:

• Combat drop went great
• Decent teamwork with visiting clan
• All elements extremely reactive to QRF forces

Cons:

• Extremely slow pace of OP
• Very low action operation
• Comms issues with some element leads
• Some issues with scattering of forces leading to loss of combat effectiveness and higher casualty rates
• Calls for medical need serious work

 

[Rav.T]

LOCKED

 

[Rav.T]

Processed S1/Operations updated.