AAR ARMA 3 | February 2024 Warfare Wednesday | WFW 225

[Sam.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 225
Number Within Campaign: 2/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 14FEB24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Sam.T , Captain Beiter.A
Mission OIC: Captain Mackey.A
Number of Attendees: 38

Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Captain Beiter.A
Captain Mackey.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Searle.I
First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Lewis.A
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Vincent.L
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Davis.D
Corporal Dixon.E
Corporal Easson.T
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Bonnet.J
Specialist Brian.F
Specialist Chandler.A
Specialist Frags.J
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist MacTavish.J
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Morris.T
Specialist Stover.C
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Hart.L
Private First Class Kuusela.N
Private Vincent.C

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Raider-1
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Davis.D

Pros:

• Enough work to do, killed several columns of tanks.

Cons:

• Incorrect intel in the briefing; was led to believe there was minimal anti-aircraft, turns out there was a lot of ZU guns and Igla turrets.
  • I don't mind a heavy AA net, but being told there isn't any and it turns out there was makes it very frustrating.
• Shot down twice by AA led to lack of ISR for the infantry.
• Radios not working, not sure what the issue was but took CSAR a while to get in contact, when I was in contact with Chaos at the same time.
• Chaos called out his own concern of not making calls correctly, but it would also be advisable to understand what different types of aircraft are capable.

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Crowley.T
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Brian.F
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Hart.L
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Private Vincent.C
Specialist Apollo.R

Non 7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
RET.Houston

Pros

• 10/10 execution on the convoy from our perspective
• Really good autonomy from the Teams and practice of fundamentals including:
  • Great movements, some good examples of organic fire and manoeuvre and alternate bounding
  • Good security
  • Phenomenal succession of command by Crowley
• Great 'set piece' of contact from the mission maker, holding the line from a QRF.
• Great work from our CLS, Houston. Almost every squad member was downed at some point and he handled casualties very professionally. As a squad our team leaders did very well to do CASEVACs
• Excellent work by ATLAS in responding and keeping us in the fight
• Good work from Buffalo flight, providing a constant stream of reinserts with really close LZs as directed by -5.
• Great work from the mission maker in ensuring a nice balance of contact vs server performance
• Nice detailed OPORD from -6

Cons

• I made the poor decision to fire an AT-4 in a closed environment
• I made the decision not to break contact when it would have benefitted the platoon more to have pulled off of our blocking.
• I felt awkward trying to mesh in with Platoon intent, but after talking with -6 and -5 it worked well.
• Didn't see much ISR or CAS, would be nice to have seen more of Raider

 

[Dixon.E]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class McAllen.J

Non- 7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Expendable_Joe

Pros:

• Lots of medical work both surgeries, criticals and routine
• Well stocked vehicle and good usage of the ambulance
• Great teamwork within the team

Cons:

• Lots of DOAs/Delayed/No calls due to no dedicated 7 since its hard for 5 to multi task.
• Snarky comments/impatience from infantry when treating reds/routine
• Some cardiac during surgeries

 

[Westcott.R]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-5/7
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Westcott.R


Pros:

• Excellent ACE reports and buddy aid by the squads!
• Buffalos 1 & 2 were absolutely on point tonight! Crisp comms, excellent adaptation to my ever changing LZs, and an impromptu call for CAS support on a squad to facilitate a break contact.
• Atlas 1 & 2 were consummate professionals, I had like half of an idea of how to do B7 in addition to B5, and I leaned heavily on them to be proactive! Excellent response to what calls came over platoon net before I could really even task them. Thank you all very much!
• Platoon movements were very good, even when our vehicles got shot out from underneath us.
• Collected 2/3 bits of intel (lore purposes).

Cons:

• If a squad is employing a DMR, that needs to be discussed during the brief so that resupply can be adjusted accordingly. On that note, troopers should not be taking it upon themselves to take a DMR kit unless SPECIFICALLY instructed to do so by their SL.
• PSG and PLT Medic are very different roles and although both are "do-able" by one person, really really need 2 to be done correctly.
• The convoy was kind of a mess tonight. Upon hitting that roadblock the trailing elements should have taken the route that B2 did and B1 should have turned around and assumed the rear positions. Stopping a convoy to try to demo a roadblock while in Humvees was, in hindsight, a pretty bad idea.

 

[Kastor.K]

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

Element Callsign: Chaos
Element Leader: Corporal Kastor.K
Pros:

• Good effects on targets from both RAIDER and BUFFALO, whenever we were able to coordinate.
• Really appreciate mission planners taking CHAOS into account with the breakaway point and OP with a good LOS to the target.

Cons:

• Unfortunately, I did not recognize that the overcast weather would make me completely unable to see the AO from the 2-3 km distant OP1.
• Unhappy with own performance with targeting Rotary CAS, need much more practice with it. Much more fluent with FW CAS.
• Radio issues that required swapping radio packs or relaying messages (RAIDER's CSAR).
• Random drive-by BTR killed me out of nowhere and who knows from how far.
• Forced to rely on Darter drone which doesn't have the ranging-to-BFT capability of the Vector.
• Darter's autonomous flight module did not work, forced to rely on manual flight with keyboard.
• Was unaware RAIDER are unable to pickup a laser designator (no IR-capable targeting pod by default).
• This set of factors caused issues and slow down in target designation.
• Slowdowns, pressure from ground forces, RAIDER being down multiple times, my own death - forced me to expedite and simplify CAS calls and I've done this too much.

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Specialist Morris.T

NON-Cav:
SirJavv

Pros:

• Full Bird
• Good Flow of work
• Spicy LZ
• Repaired a bird in the field and was able to fly it back

Cons:

• Bird Repair time was stupid high at 15 minutes to fully repair a bird. It was unfortunate that the oil depot was leaking at the time and a FNG lit his cigarette there right next to the bird which was next to the oil depot... (perhaps a cap of 300 seconds (5 minutes) would be good)

 

[Holiday.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: CPL.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Winters.R
CPL.Mobius.T

Non Cav Members
N/A

Pros:
Great comms
Good amount of work for the squad
Taught some Atlas Skills
5 killed it
Troopers for the most part were providing self and buddy aid

Cons:
A lot of black tags due to some of the wound counts, one trooper in particular had almost 70 wounds on his chest alone
AED-X bugged out leaving a member unable to use pads or connect monitors
Convoy was a bit wonky, some confusion when one of the bandit vehicles were destroyed on whether to push through contact or not led to platoon being split

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Locked!
Assigned White.N for Processing

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operations Processed