AAR ARMA 3 | April 2024 WFW | Operation Warfare Wednesday 235

[Sam.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 235
Number Within Campaign: 4/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TACR
Date of Combat Mission: 24APR24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Sam.T, Corporal Zaren.T

Attendees: 45
Colonel LaCombe.M
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Major Bunnell.M
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Searle.I
Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L "Plan B"
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W "Scooter"
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
First Sergeant Vincent.L
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Teddy.J
Sergeant Varnado.J
Sergeant Willson.JA
Corporal Almaguer.R
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Eugene.R
Corporal Nomad.P
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Zaren.T
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Falleur.J
Specialist Fougere.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Peterson.L
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Woods.K
Private First Class Neubauer.P
Private First Class Pierce.A
Private First Class Shere.J
Private First Class Vincent.C
Private Boyd.M
Private Bryan.R

 

[Nomad.P]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: VIKING-5
Element Leader: Corporal Nomad.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Shepard.S

Pros:

• Good teamwork witnessed between squads without the need for Platoon Command intervention
• Great turnout.
• Amazing placement of the enemy positions to provide an effective engagement for friendly forces.

Cons:

• ACE checks were few and far between when called for.
• Vehicles drove -into- fire even after it was clearly identified as a threat. We need to keep situational awareness.
• Better identification of friendly forces to avoid friendly fire.

 

[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: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.McAllen.J
SPC.Winters.R
MAJ.Bunnell.M

Pros:
Op started a little slow fort ATLAS
Good amount of medical care when casualties got going
Great team to work with
Great response to calls

Cons:
Couldn't seem to be able to use the ultrasound when AED pads were placed
Buddy aid seemed pretty lacking, self care basically stopped when ATLAS arrived on scene
Couple black tags because casualty calls weren't making it to 7
Seemed like most comms were coming through convoy net which made comms a bit odd to track
Couple black tags during ATLAS care or just upon ATLAS arrival due to injury amount

 

[Blake.H]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: VIKING-7
Element Leader: Corporal Blake.H


Pros:

• Great turnout
• Good response and positioning from ATLAS

Cons:

• ComTacless helmet variant still defaulting to TAN-RGR instead of TAN-MC when changing in the arsenal. Looks silly.
• Too many coms on vehicle net rather than over platoon net.
• Casualty dumped in ATLAS' vehicle without notification resulting in them being left.
• Slow casualty callups from squads.

 

[Sutodoreh.W]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: EAGLE Flight
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L "Plan B"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L "Plan B"
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W "Scooter"

Pros:

• Fun
• Got to roll in the ground pound bus in style
• Fantastic mission design

Cons:

• Self-imposed shootdowns, we should have done 1-2 dedicated SEAD sorties at the beginning and THEN CAS but instead we tried to combine them both all op resulting in multiple shootdowns or near-shootdowns, mostly caused by missiles being fired while we were in the TGT pod lookng for targets or flying low and slow for a strike. Once we reset and decided to actually do SEAD, it took a single coordinated sortie to completely clear the enemy AA and this is what we should have done from the beginning
• Had to share the cabin of the whirlybird with Terp.J twice
• Lag/stuttering

Technical Issues (Sam.T )

• The pilot kit spawns with a radio backpack but for some reason the antenna isn't selected -- this probably happened by accident with the latest loadouts update because it worked fine until recently! Should be a simple fix, just need to make sure one of the antenna options is selected rather than disabled
• Radio issues requiring Zeus reset (maybe related to the above point, maybe not)

 

[Sparrow.P]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Major Preacher.A
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Specialist Peterson.L
Specialist Apollo.R
Private First Class Shere.J
Private First Class Pierce.A
Corporal Rodahl.S
Specialist Fougere.J

Reserve/Non-Cav:
Samra
Reservist Eugene.R
Ian Searle


Pros:

• Fun*5
• Comms good
• Run over by tank
• Liked concept
• Good Movement
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Best WFW
• Great Start

Cons:

• Abondment issues
• Tank rolling up on us
• Inter-fireteam comms could have been better

 

[Willson.JA]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-3
Element Leader: Sergeant Willson.JA

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Rok.M
Private First Class Vincent.C
Corporal Almaguer.R
Specialist Kuusela.N
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Falleur.J
Private Boyd.M
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A

Pros:

• Squad worked the objectives well
• Lots of aggression from the squad all night
• Leadership was handled well throughout the squad, including the succession of it
• We got down and dirty with multiple MBTs and MT-LBs
• It was a really fun op for the squad
• Taking a tow rocket to the face made for an interesting time
• Hunting tanks with an AR is a fun time

Cons:

• Casualty care was not handled in the best possible manner
• We had a couple of moments when the squad should have broken contact, such as with the tow that was 700 meters away from our position.

 

[Narramoor.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: VIKING-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Bethea.A
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R

Pros

• Good vehicle crew in Sierra 6
• Excellent work by 7 and Atlas in recovering MAS-CAS situations
• Excellent work from -4 in delivering ordnance
• Infantry elements managed to mop up a LOT of contact.
• Really good platoon comms on the platoon net.
• Good individual actions from squads.
• Good succession of command
• Great work from Viking-5 in being authorititive with all sustainment activities.
• Great turnout
• Amazing work from the mission makers providing a very satisfying balance of contact

Cons

• Harebrained scheme to destroy artillery at Volkovo. (Caught the mission makers off guard though)
• Discombobulated clearance of the town which led to a lot of confusion between elements - Lots of Blue-on-blue
• Fog at the start was just thick enough that infantry couldn't see contact across the bridge.
• Haphazard confirmation of destroyed tanks led to a few MASCAS situations
• SITREPs could have been done more frequently

cScripts / Loadouts

• Tactical Backpacks for pilots and Chaos to have access to radio Antennas. Antenna #2 doesn't work
• Atlas had good feedback from arsenal rgd. kits

KAT Bugs

• Unable to do ultrasounds whilst placing AED pads

 

[Hamm.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: BUFFALO FLIGHT (1, 2)
Element Leader: Specialist Hamm.C "Hooker"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Terp.J (BUFFALO-2)

Pros:

• Great OP and lots of fun... great turnout. Pretty map and pretty good performance.
• Great BUFFALO Flight teamwork. Good intra ship/ship to ship/and CTAF comms.
• Great comms with Viking-5. Very responsive and on point.
• Two birds up during second half, so consistent stick time.
• Very successful CSAR opportunities.

Cons:

• No dedicated Crew Chief (CC) or Door Gunner (DG). Would have been cool to have two birds up; One for primary and one for overhead/orbital security.

 

[Neubauer.P]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-4
Squad Leader: Private First Class Neubauer.P

Sierra 4 Crew-
VC. Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
DV. Private Bryan.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
BN COMMANDER: Colonel LaCombe.M
B TROOP 1SG: First Sergeant Vincent.L
Sergeant Teddy.J
Sergeant Varnado.J
Corporal Dio.B
Specialist Woods.K

Public Players:
EliteShrooms
MikeM86
Polar??

Pros:

• Good Teamwork within the Teams and Squad Together and Squad Comms.
• Multiple Task Sets for Squad (81's, JAV, MMG and MOUT) maximizing Squad Strengths.
• Squad/Sierra Coordination was excellent
• Squad Tactical Awareness and feel of the flow of Action was good.
• Squad actions on. Swift, Purposeful..
• Coordinated Fire Support for Tactical Movements was good.
• Strong Sierra Crew Actions.

Cons:

• Loss of Mutual Support at times, as a Weapons Squad we have to Breakdown Systems and were left trailing the fight as Platoon moved up.
• Distance to targets and weather negated support fire engagements at times.
• Some unfamiliar with 81mm Mortar System Operation.
• Again as in previous missions lack of a proper Vehicle Load Plan and correct equip reduced Combat Efficiency( incorrect 81's, no stinger, no 240 Ammunition, and LAT)

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!
Assigned Groves.A for processing.

 

[Groves.A]

S1 Locked!
Assigned Groves.A for processing.

I’m on LOA until 5/10. Please reassign Rutkowski.P

 

[Rutkowski.P]

Reassigned Agazzi.J for processing.

 

[Agazzi.J]

S1 Operations Milpacs processed.