AAR ARMA 3 | March 2024 WFW | Operation Warfare Wednesday 228

[Sam.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 228
Number Within Campaign: 1/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TACR
Date of Combat Mission: 06MAR2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Tallamy.D
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Sam.T

Attendees: 38
Captain Beiter.A
Captain Mackey.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Searle.I
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Tallamy.D
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Taylor.C
Sergeant Turn.J
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Morozov.M
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Hamm.C
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Smith.DM
Specialist Stover.C
Specialist Taylor.D
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Delgado.C
Private First Class Kuusela.N
Private First Class Peterson.L
Private First Class Vincent.C
Private Neubauer.P
Specialist Fox.R
[Retired]Corporal Saint.Z

 

[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.Taylor.D
CPL.Blake.H

Pros:
Halo jumps were cool
Lots of work
Great team to work with

Cons:
Black tags
Frame issues
Lost casualty due to lack of knowledge of cardiac type

Blake.H for jump star

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Crowley.T
Corporal Grief.A

Non-Cav:
Kenny

Pros:

• Cool Mission
• Idea was good Great time

Cons:

• Not tactically switched on

Jump Starts:
2nd HALO Star Sparrow.P
2nd HALO Star Crowley

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: Captain Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Corporal Teddy.J
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Bethea.A
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Smith.DM
Specialist Apollo.R
RET.Houston.T

Pros:

• HALO Jump fun
• When we had contact it was fun and enjoyable
• Squads CQB was on point.

Cons:

• Low contact for BANDIT-2
• Second half of the operation Bandit-2 had maybe 3-5 contacts that appeared.
• MASCAS hurt us pretty hard with both SL and Alpha FTL both being black tagged.
• Enemies that looked like us, with suppressors aren't the best match. Made it extremely difficult to PID and engage.

Jump Stars Tallamy.D
Beiter - 1st Star
Fox - 1st Star
Bethea - 1st Star
Narramoor - 2nd Star

 

[Gann.T]

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Searle.I
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Sergeant Taylor.C
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Mobius.T
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist Stover.C
Private First Class Delgado.C
Private First Class Vincent.C

Pros-

• Squad was very aggressive
• Large amount of contact
• Had a great deal of fun

Cons:

• Deconfliction was poor sometimes
• Comms was amiss at some points
• Resupply was a large distance
  
  Searle - 1st Jump Star
  Preacher - 1st Jump Star
  Gann - 1st Jump Star

 

[Hamm.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: Specialist Hamm.C 'Hooker'

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Peterson.L

Pros:

• Very fun mission... great OPORD... great job mission maker.
• Excellent Crew Chief tonight.
• Comms with 5 were outstanding.
• Enjoyed this map, seemed to have good performance (at least for me).
• Good reinsert and multiple resupply LZ's selected.

Cons:

• Would have been cool to have a fully crewed bird.

 

[McAllen.J]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas-1
Element Leader: https://7cav.us/rosters/profile/2930/

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Specialist Winters.R

7cav.us

Private Harlow.M

7cav.us

Pros:

• Decent amount of medical, plenty of surgeries.
• The infantry-based combat is great, it's nice to be boots on ground every now and again.
• The Halo jump was fun.

Cons:

• Strange surgery glitch resulting in a patient going into cardiac arrest over and over and we couldn't re-perform an open reduction.
• Jump comms need improvement or a standard so we all know how it's supposed to be done.
• Atlas was ambushed in two instances when infantry was supposed to clear the areas.
• Bandit-4 was unsavable during an instance on an ATC tower.

 

[Tallamy.D]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-6 HQ
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Tallamy.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Staff Sergeant Westcott.R Bandit-5 Platoon Sergeant
Sergeant Turn.J Bandit-7 Platoon Medic
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A Chaos-1
Captain Mackey.A Chaos-2

Pros:

• Great use of CAS & friendly mortars (130rnds fired)
• HALO Insert went near perfect (minus check ins) especially considering the high intensity element.
• Overall everyone seemed to have fun.
• Much less black-tag casualties than expected
• Overall great cohesion amongst unit.
• Key Terrain 3 offered an excellent line of approach straight into weak point of enemy base

Cons:

• Some squad level leadership black-tags lead to halted movement
• A couple mishaps with Jump check-ins. Did not hurt much anyway, Jumpmaster (me) frago'd checkins anyways.
• Communication issues with radio on occasion throughout the operation.

Jump stars

Tallamy.D 3rd Star
Mackey.A - 3rd Star
Westcott.R - 2nd star
Hilberg.A - 2nd Star
Turn.J - 2nd Star

 

[Westcott.R]

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

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Element Callsign: BANDIT-5
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Westcott.R


Pros:

• HALO Jumps are awesome! Excellent Brief, I believe all but 2 members hit their DZs and all jumpers survived.
• ACE reports were timely and on point tonight! Good work SLs!
• Buffalo was just absolutely on it tonight, resupply and reinserts were expedient!
• Excellent first OP performance by 6! Coupled with a stellar job by Bandit-7.

Cons:

• Not enough Charge-1 HE in the resupply crates, maybe replace the flares with more boom?
• Resupply crates: For medical we will need the Atlas crate more than the PLT crate 9 times out of 10 (for M.C.).
• HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO MESS UP JUMP CALL-INS!!!
• OPFOR w/suppressors can be a bit...extra...

Notes: Resupply can't always be dropped in the PLT's lap...

MFFP Jump star:
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R - 2nd Star

 

[Fox.R]

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

Element Callsign: LIGHTNING-1
Element Leader: Specialist Fox.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Fox.R

Pros:

• Outstanding communication with FAC/CHAOS-2 (Captain Mackey.A) whose instructions were always clear and concise, with meticulous target correlation.
• Both Captain Mackey.A and CWO Villmarsson.L (TITAN-1) were very supportive and patient with me throughout the mission, and happily answered all my rookie questions.
• Very responsive mission controller.
• From an altitude of 2000m, the op looked well designed and seemed to have posed a sufficient challenge for the ground units without being overwhelming.
• No CAS blue-on-blue incidents (apologies again for last time, Abate.L et al!). I really learned my lesson 2 weeks ago and have become a lot more careful about target correlation and PID. Once again, CHAOS-2 was very helpful in this regard.

Cons:

• It would be great, in general, to have more targets laser-designated by ground units. It seems to me that this enhances safety and accuracy, and frankly, it's just more fun for everyone.

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Locked!

 

[Kinser.E]

Assigned Mobius.T for Processing.

 

[Mobius.T]

S1 Operations Processed