AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Lost Paddle

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Lost Paddle
Number Within Campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 8MAR2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2300z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Sam.T
Mission Controller: Captain Beiter.A / Staff Sergeant Fox.Z / Corporal Kastor.K

Attendee's: 25
Captain Beiter.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Oldham.G
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.TCorporal Holiday.T
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Mobius.T
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Turner.L
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Renard.S
Specialist Shepard.S
Private First Class Otel.J
Private First Class Vincent.C
Private Harlow.M
Private Shere.J

 

[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:
CPL.Maco.D
PVT.Harlow.M
SPC.McAllen.J


Pros:
Team was on point
Great work in the ccp, tons of reds and the guys were just on the ball
No blacktags under Atlas care
Great reaction to casualties

Cons:
Atlas didn't really feel needed on the boat
KAT bug with King LT caused issues with reviving a patient
Quite a few points where troopers left under care
Self aid was pretty lackluster

 

[Gann.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Corporal Gann.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Fields.Q
Staff Sergeant Oldham.G
Corporal Easson.T
Corporal Mobius.T
Specialist Renard.S
Specialist Shepard.S
Private First Class Vincent.C
Private Shere.J

Pros:
Good Intra-squad comm
Good squad movement
Fun Mission

Cons:
Buddy-aid
Several close calls for friendly fire
intra-platoon communications

 

[Westcott.R]

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

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Element Callsign: MISFIT-1
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Westcott.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Crowley.T
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Turner.L
Private First Class Otel.J

Pros:

• Squad had a lot of fun! Excellent mission scope and scale! OPFOR were tough but fair. Environment was excellent. Way to step out of the cookie cutter mission set!
• Individual trooper discipline within the squad was excellent, buddy aid and self aid were on point. No black tags from Misfit-1.
• Performing the patrolling SBF/overwatch with the boat was a challenge and a welcome addition!
• Good work by the MC's tonight. I could feel the RC presence without feeling like you were just trying to murder us outright...just make it hard. Reactionary elements were well maneuvered and appropriately placed and felt really organic! Kudos!!

Cons:

• Noise/Light/Laser discipline was not executed during land movement phases.
• The whole platoon failed to really get in sync it felt
• There were some individual soldier discipline issues, it felt like not everyone was switched on and focused on the task
• The last CON made the OP which would have lent itself to an extra-immersive experience that was high-stakes feel a bit more like a TacR meme-ish experience. There is a lot of time for games (we are playing one after all), but being able to flip that switch makes everyone's experience much more enjoyable.

 

[Narramoor.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-5
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A

Pros:

• Great operation concept. Presented a great opportunity to utilise a patrol boat and conduct small unit tactics.
• Always love missions with an emphasis on Stealth
• Enormous amount of work from mission makers evident in well thought-out set pieces
• I loved the scope of mission which has lots of potential to be continued as an ongoing format.
• Excellent work from 1 Atlas Team dealing with that volume of casualties

Cons:

• The professionalism on display didn't match the expectations from limited and role-specific slotting. Would love to see this format be associated with a higher standard of MILSIM.
  • Some simple procedures and drills weren't followed
    • Self and Buddy Care
    • IR/Laser discipline
    • Reaction to contact was slow, weight of fire wasn't often prioritised
    • Needless risk in individual movements at times
• Don't use frag grenades for ship clearing!

 

[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:

• Conceptually, awesome operation.
• Objectives completed successfully.
• CQB on the destroyer looked and sounded awesome, very challenging environment.
• Marksmanship from our designated marksman was awesome, being able to prosecute at least one target on shore from the destroyer.
• Great work from Atlas working through a MASCAL on the X.

Cons:

• Lack of individual soldier professionalism and discipline.
• Overly liberal and obvious use of remote controlling.
• "Bad frags" and general use of explosives inside the destroyer during clearance. This can be linked back into the first con.

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Locked!

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Assigned Teddy.J for processing.

 

[Teddy.J]

S1 Processed.