AAR AAR | ARMA 3 | January Warfare Wednesday 2024 - Warfare Wednesday 222

[Hilberg.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 222
Number Within Campaign: 3/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 24JAN24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Westcott.R, Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Mission OIC: Captain Beiter.A

Number of Attendees: 46
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Captain Mackey.A
Captain Highman.J
Captain Beiter.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Lewis.A
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Baruch.J
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sutodoreh.W
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Spitnale.K
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
First Sergeant Geki.T
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Armitage.T
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Turn.J
Sergeant Willson.JA
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Davis.D
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Beta.P
Specialist Dray.T
Specialist Franklin.J
Specialist MacTavish.J
Specialist Mitchell.B
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class McAllen.J
Private First Class Smith.DM
Private First Class Hart.L
Private Kuusela.N

Non Cave members/reitred:
CPT.Swagger.J
SFC.Houston.T
Cb.Madrid[54*BI] (loved having you)
Expendable Joe

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: GUNSLINGER-6
Element Leader: Captain Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Beiter.A

Pros

• Mission was fantastic! Flow was perfect and we showed off how the Cav operates to another clan and they were super impressed!
• All elements worked really well with each other with the combined arms aspects.
• VIKING-1 was killer! Really helped out with the SBF elements as well as supporting and taking the OBJ 2 during the side mission
• Lewis.A worked really well stepping up mid-way through the operation as an SL for GUNSLINGER-2 and was awesome!

Cons:

• Server desync
• Issues with the mission file here and there
• With combined arms were going to have to work through with Battalion and HQ staff about how to properly resupply both troopers and vehicles in the mission

 

[Davis.D]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-2
Element Leader: CPL.Davis.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPT.Highman.J
WO 1.Hamm.C
CWO 3.Baruch.J

Pros

• Full Crew really made immersion great for the operation
• Clear LZ's that were never compromised, and ease of landing
• Crew Comm's were clear and fluid, CC had great comms with Gunslinger-5
• No HUD was challenging but also immersive in that aspect allowing me to have to not get comfortable with it
• Resupply of friendly forces was easy, quick, and Perfectly executed LZ mark method made it easy to see
• The crew had a blast and was eventful
• Was able to practice flight planning

Cons:

• Server issues caused all internal operating systems not able to function and flipped us 180 degrees only 5 feet off the landing pad
• not too many re-inserts made moments stagnant
• simple flight module compared to advanced flight is day and night and had to fly simple due to server issues

 

[Lewis.A]

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

Element Callsign: GUNSLINGER-2
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Lewis.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Lewis.A
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Spitnale.K
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Hart.L
Private Kuusela.N
SFC.Houston.T
[Missing Several Fill-Ins]


Pros

• Mission planning was clear and easy to follow.
• Gunslinger 2's members were cohesive and worked well together, despite changes in leadership throughout.
• Lots of great jokes, laughs, and good times had by all.

Cons:

• Long pauses with convoy prep during initial staging and second objective.
• Enhanced medical system is causing loss of momentum due to longer treatment and unconsciousness times.
• Lost coordination with Gun-2 during the second objective, possibly due to TFAR issues.

 

[Turn.J]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Turn.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Sergeant Armitage.T
Specialist Dray.T

Pros

• Good balance of work.
• Got to treat cardiac tamponade (pretty rare).
• Teamwork was fantastic.
• Mass casualty incident response was effective, no casualties.

Cons:

• Several KAT medical bugs:
  • Unusually low BP (39/0 reported).
  • Possible menu loading issue due to desync.
  • Occlusion occurred while patient intubated. Should not be possible.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1 (BUFFALO Flight Lead)
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C 'Hooker'

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C

Pros

• Good mission, great fun despite knowing this was going to be a rotary-light mission.
• Consolidated down to one BUFFALO due to nature of mission and due to MH-60 systems being borked (see Cons) and to give another pilot stick time.
• Great/reliable/dependable comms with G-5.

Cons:

• So, several times now (I count about 4 in a row) we have had pretty major issues with the Mission File/Map File/or scripts or whatever completely borking numerous Hatchet MH-60 systems. Whatever it is, it is a known issue, addressed with S3:
  • So the critical failures are:
  • a) Forced SFM (Simple Flight Model, which sucks horribly, which may now have been fixed or alleviated... still not totally sure on this),
  • b) No Multi-Function Display function/capability at all (buttons on MFD simply don't work), <---- leading to c) zero functionality or control of MFD's meaning that our Navigational Display (ND) is useless which includes our critical Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), our Forward Looking Infared System (FLIR), is useless, so no ISR or precision sighting/targeting is available/functional etc.
  • d) Flight Management System (FMS) is useless (buttons can't be pressed, so HMD can't be accessed/refreshed along with all it's other functions etc.)
• In exploring/experimenting with trying to figure out what is happening and why, the commonalities between these problems are a) they always occur on the Domination File, b) Domination file on Altis. It seems it must be something there, because if I immediately exit the TacR public server and go into either a Training Server(s) or Eden, all systems work great as they normally do. So, something in that Mission/Map file has got to be what's screwing things up bad, but the cause still seems to be undiscovered and not resolved.

 

[Dread.M]

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

Element Callsign: GUNSLINGER-5
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

Pros

• People seem to enjoy Domination
• Good SLs made everything easy

Cons:

• RW is still broke
• Viking was a little detached. Hard to keep it cohesive, but it was alright

 

[Armitage.T]

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[Teddy.J]

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