AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Freedom | Operation Shanty

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Shanty
Number Within Campaign: 1/?
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 09MAR2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2100z
Mission OIC: Corporal Gann.T
Mission Controller: Captain Beiter.A / Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

Attendee's: 43
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Captain Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Willson.JA
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Hoidahl.N
Corporal Holiday.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal Mason.H
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Turner.L
Corporal Rodahl.S
Specialist Fox.R
Specialist Bonnet.J
Specialist MacTavish.J
Specialist Smith.DM
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Hart.L
Specialist Hamm.C
Specialist Hughes.J
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Perea.A
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
Private Harlow.M
Recruit Dellow.J (passed BCT)

Non Cav Members / Former Members:

Bohannon
Augustin Demonceaux
CCWO J.Swan

 

[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:
PVT.Harlow.M
SPC.Winters.R



Pros:
Good amount of work
Team had fun
Saved a couple of guys that should have been black tags
OP started off great

Cons:
BRDM spawned on Atlas-1s position leading to 3 members being KIA, definitely soured the mood of the team for the rest of the op
OP devolved into complete chaos with a breakdown of comms and cohesion
Just general indecision during the pullback
Quite a few instances of frame drops and lagging across the team

 

[Maco.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas 2
Element Leader: Corporal Maco.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Specialist McAllen.J
Pro:
Lots of Medical
Slow and fast pace
Good amount of contact for Atlas
Quite overall enjoyed
Good amount of surgery
TL saved Platoon Leader from trying to save Misfit 2 from the middle of the road then dropped them at friendly lines and proceeded to drive to Misfit 2 to save.

Con:
Some fumbling near the end.
About a couple of black tags which is unstable due to the amount of injuries and dealing with KAT.
Platoon felt very blocky in placements in the town.
Phase lines were being passed by EI which resulted in Contact with Atlas.
Another Atlas team was wiped by a BDRM
Server issues at the start which resulted in a crash which was a shame but good to get out of the way.
Platoon Pullback was done very very poorly which resulted in alot of people being left behind.
Platoon Leader went by themself to try and rescue Misfit 2 which was saved by Atlas 2 TL from middle of road in gunfire.

 

[Mason.H]

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 Mason.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Hart.L
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Corporal Mobius.T
Specialist MacTavish.J
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Rodahl.S
Private Neubauer.P
Specialist Hughes.J

Pros:

• Great movement by fireteams, excellent clearing and cohesion
• Great intensity and action, lots of engagements
• Personally my first SL role within 7Cav, very enjoyable

Cons:

• Failed to break contact and pull back when instructed
• 2 fireteams seemed thin to cover our entire squad lane when we're expecting enemies to push through and backstab us
• Overwhelming enemy force and IDF caused black tags (part of a mission designed to lose)

 

[Willson.JA]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Willson.JA

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Turner.L
Corporal Terp.J
Specialist Perea.A
Corporal Hoidahl.N
Corporal Bethea.A
Specialist Gilman.A

Public Player(s):
Bohannon

Pros:
Good time, lots of contact
Amping up to heavier enemy contact was good
CQB through lane was smooth at the begging of the op
Squad worked well and communicated well

Cons:
The last 20-30 minutes felt like nothing was really being accomplished
We were hit by a suicide bomber. Causing a mass casualty event with multiple black tags in the squad including the SL. After this things began to go down hill for the squad.
The squad was disappointed that we ended up not hitting the secondary objective at the end of the AO.

 

[Fox.R]

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

Element Callsign: REAPER-1/HOG-1
Element Leader: Specialist Fox.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Fox.R

Pros:

• As always, top-notch communication with CHAOS (Corporal Kastor.K), who also took the time to provide me with valuable one-on-one feedback after the op.
• The mission seemed well planned and I like the fact that it wasn't a success. You can't win them all, as they say, and I feel that this adds a bit more realism to the campaign.
• Switching to the A-10 and actually doing some damage to help the ground units was satisfying.
• Great work by the mission controller, who promptly resolved technical glitches we had with the drones and the radio.
• Being able to watch the Zeus stream ex post facto really helps me understand what's actually going on on the ground - great idea!

Cons:

• Laser designation from the ground would have been nice, although I understand that this time the circumstances made that considerably difficult.
• Towards the end of the op, it looked like the enemy attempted to move some of the hostages to a different location, which I thought was an excellent plot twist, but then it was never followed through.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: Specialist Hamm.C "Hooker"

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

Pros:

• Good mission, good concept. Definitely had fun.
• Looked and sounded like Ground Forces had tons of action.
• Great job by my sole crew member, Crew Chief Peterson.L
• Fantastic comms with Misfit-5.
• Proper resupply crates.

Cons:

• Unfortunate that exfil of the HVT and/or pilots did not get accomplished.
• FARP was extremely close to the town... literally right beside it so realistically, it seemed way too forward.

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Locked!

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 assigned Rutkowski.P for processing.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Operations Processed.