AAR A/2-7 FTX Operation Triple Frontier

[Komar.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: A.Co FTX Operation Triple Frontier
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training/Event
Date of Combat Mission: 28APR24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0015Z​

Mission OIC: First Sergeant Komar.T
Mission Controller: First Sergeant Komar.T
Number of Attendees: 100
Colonel Budd.D
Major Rollins.R
Major Mix.C
Major Strider.R
Major Cameron.J
First Lieutenant Longmen.D
First Lieutenant Smith.V
First Lieutenant Anderson.P
Second Lieutenant Argentini.E
Second Lieutenant Rhodes.R
Sergeant Major West.B
First Sergeant Komar.T
First Sergeant DAmico.J
First Sergeant Balazova.S
First Sergeant Sven.S
Master Sergeant Zimm.L
Staff Sergeant Hellious.T
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Staff Sergeant Webber.R
Staff Sergeant Whaley.H
Staff Sergeant Mueller.H
Staff Sergeant Avery.D
Sergeant Zulu.P
Sergeant Herber.R
Sergeant Rasmus.M
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Sergeant Button.J
Sergeant Berkowski.C
Sergeant Cantrell.J
Sergeant Carmine.J
Sergeant Silvis.B
Corporal Bean.P
Corporal Willis.B
Corporal Wisniewski.A
Corporal Karr.H
Corporal Korfias.F
Corporal Strole.Z
Corporal Swanson.B
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Ackelson.K
Corporal Henderson.B
Corporal Leifried.R
Corporal Lee.N
Corporal Owens.J
Corporal Singhal.P
Specialist Cris.C
Specialist Knowles.J
Specialist Kona.B
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Harris.W
Specialist Curran.J
Specialist Corsino.D
Specialist Remy.K
Specialist Kiing.T
Specialist Landry.H
Specialist Jefferzon.Z
Specialist Silvis.C
Specialist Sokol.Z
Specialist Macpherson.C
Specialist Jat.R
Specialist Woody.W
Specialist Fields.M
Specialist Winter.A
Specialist Martinez.X
Specialist Scarselli.T
Specialist LaRoche.P
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Etoh.I
Specialist Valente.M
Specialist Murphy.S
Specialist Ackerman.J
Specialist Plum.L
Specialist Evans.J
Private First Class Patricks.C
Private First Class Johnson.G
Private First Class Kolanko.T
Private First Class Kolanko.S
Private First Class Donk.B
Private First Class Fowler.D
Private First Class Raid.R
Private First Class Rich.M
Private First Class Maikranz.J
Private First Class McDonald.N
Private First Class Houser.J
Private First Class Maines.Z
Private First Class Bell.T
Private Collins.N
Private Feathers.A
Private Gimson.M
Private McKenzie.Z
Private James.R
Private Carrasco.J
Private Bowman.D
Private Shaw.L
Private Parton.D
Private Patty.S
Recruit Daver.R
Recruit Lahti.R
Recruit Hessler.R
Recruit Skye.E
Retired Corporal Smith.N

 

[Komar.T]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Commander ALLIES
Element Leader: First Sergeant Komar.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Komar.T


Pros:

• Another 50 V50 Cav Match always great to see a full turn out! Big thank you to everyone that signed up!
• Great movement throughout, really great to see the hard work at SP put into practice. With two equally matched teams slugging it out.
• Communication was really good, this comms structure is one I think we will continue using moving forward.
• Tankers on the allied side did a fantastic job responding to calls for aid, and great early work holding down checkpoint and wiping enemy tanks from the field.
• Leadership team was awesome, great work put in by all SLs and Platoon staff involved. Everyone did great work with their pre-plan work. Execution was nearly flawless. Really paid off in the opening 30 minutes.
• Concept seemed to be really enjoyed, will look at something similar in the future.

Cons:

• I was a little too talkative in command and will have to work on cleaning that up.
• Artillery could have been better utilized by both sides. Will have to look at making that a dedicated role in the future to ensure it gets utilized when available.

 

[Cameron.J]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Easy FTL AXIS
Element Leader:
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Cameron.J
First Sergeant DAmico.J
Corporal Strole.Z
Private First Class Houser.J
Private First Class Bell.T

Pros:

• Squad had tons of fun
• Very effective pre-planning and orders
• Great support from squads assigned around us
• Troopers followed orders and operated autonomously to achieve our objectives

Cons:

• Comm bugs plagued nearly 1/3 of the team
• Tank balancing was an issue

 

[Sotelo.R]

Element Callsign: Allied Armor "Cheap and Easy"
Element Leader: Sergeant Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Specialist Winter.A
Private Bowman.D

Pros:

Cons:

 

[Rhodes.R]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Mike Squad (Allies)
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Rhodes.R
Staff Sergeant Mueller.H
Corporal Singhal.P
Recruit Lahti.R


Solids

• 1200 combat effectiveness with 4 guys
• Excellent Platoon Comms. Thank you Longmen.D
• My Buddy-Squad was Wizeniski's, we did a fantastic job covering each other's defensive gaps.
• Great squad comms and coordination, excellent holds of important positions.
• Held off larger forces for key moments in the west & south.
• Great plans and planning, plans worked pretty much exactly as intended in the beginning.
• Took over the platoon briefly, had absolutely no issues. Great SLs working as was needed.

Improvements

• Spent most of my time in south, rather than the west of the strong point.
• Slightly quicker flexing in response to new orders would be smart. Will get better with time.

 

[Longmen.D]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Platoon Lead Mid
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Longmen.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:



Pros:

• Another 50 V50 Cav Match always great to see a full turn out!
• Great job fighting over mid
• Continue to like Comms system
• Great fighting and Squad Leads

Cons:

• Platoon was a little large and command and control got difficult
  • I was slow to respond at times

Others

• Great job. Next step is improving execution of orders (and my recognition of situations).

 

[Korfias.F]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Axis Hospice Squad George
Element Leader: Corporal Korfias.F
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Korfias.F
Specialist Sokol.Z
Specialist Macpherson.C
Private Patty.S


Pros:

• Squad showed up with their game faces on tonight.
• Plan was well executed, Allies were only allowed to place a hedgehog down once, it was quickly taken down, and we held Hospice most of the match.
• Call outs were clear, command comms were not cluttered.

Cons:

• Command comms were quiet at times, could have worked together better.
• Flex earlier would have been crucial to push back on the main point.
• No back garrisons for quite awhile, not sure if we planned that or not.

 

[Bean.P]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Squad Leader King Squad Allies
Element Leader: CPL. Bean. P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC. Knowles. J
PVT. Feathers. A
CPL. Henderson. B
PVT. Collins. N
Pros:
We loved this FTX. We were the flex group down south and had a blast.
-Great communication the guys worked well together and moved well across the map
-We had four tanks kills which rocks!
-Comms with Zimm and Helli were on point which helped us down south
-Overall just a great time

Con:
None

 

[Woody.W]

Element Callsign: Commander ALLIES
Element Leader: Specialist Woody.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Valente.M
Specialist Murphy.S
Private First Class Rich.M

Pros:

• coms good
• good zoc
• good constant pressure on Enemy side from every direction

Cons:

• none everyone loved it

 

[Zimm.L]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: ALLIES PL2
Element Leader: Master Sergeant Zimm.L
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Master Sergeant Zimm.L
Specialist Scarselli.T


Pros:

• My squad mate had fun and so did I, he was very flexibly with flipping classes
• My platoon was on point with calling and responding to my calls
• units were very flexibly, moving on our point and moving toward middle point to help
• the planning ahead was great, really like doing the AO to let platoon staff do there job and lead a AO

Cons:

• there was some command comms not need in command comms

 

[Herber.R]

Element Callsign: Squad Leader Able Squad Axis
Element Leader: SGT.Herber.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
MAJ.Strider
CPL.Jinto
PFC.McDonald.N
PVT.James



Pros:

• Good comms up and down.
• Infantry worked well with flexing and pushing off point to eliminate attacking enemy forces.
• Good use of tactics and in-game strategies to help defend Hospice.
• Concept was a lot of fun and squad mates enjoyed it.

Cons:

• Clearer delineation of what defending squads' roles are to be instead of a broad objective.
• Slightly sooner call to have a squad flex to help with defense when hard point is being overwhelmed and back sliding.
• Sooner supply drops from Command.

 

[Lee.N]

Element Callsign: Allied Tank Commander, call sign "Rocinante"
Element Leader: Corporal Lee.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Smith.V
First Sergeant Balazova.S
Corporal Lee.N

Pros:

• Great command comms, only cluttered once or twice due to Command - PL and TC - SL structure
• Three points to capture was a nice adjustment of the normal game play
• Tank call outs were great, they kept us alive for a long time (Sven's pings in particular were excellent, but everyone had great pings)

Cons:

• Would have liked to have more tank on tank action (heavies, perhaps 3 tanks per team)
• Marks were cluttered at time, old pings remained up until they timed out several times

 

[Zulu.P]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Axis How squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Zulu.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Johnson.G
Private First Class Kolanko.S
Private Parton.D
Corporal Ackelson.K



Pros:

• Great coms when we did have com's, our guys moved very well at the start.
• Great movements, we were able to move fluidly through the buildings as a team and wipe out numerous teams behind ST Mar.
• team was able to switch between classes when needed and were able to adapt to the situation fluidly.

Cons:

• losing Com's after 30mins into the game and struggling to communicate with others the whole match.
• Team killing helped the enemy team wipe us off some areas.
• Struggled to get help from other's due to no Com's. this means others were not checking the map for marks.

 

[Landry.H]

Element Callsign: Fox Axis Squad Lead
Element Leader: Specialist Landry.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Evans.J
Private First Class Fowler.D
Private Daver.R

Pros:

• Good movement in the initial attack
• Good satchel placement and usage
• Clearing buildings
• holding most of the northern side of SME against the enemy

Cons:

• Poor garrison work and placement
• Spawn points were poorly placed, but were worked around
• Command coms were mild at best and seemed to have priorities mixed

 

[Remy.K]

Element Callsign: Allied Item
Element Leader: SPC.Remy.K
7th Cav Personnel:

• SGM.West.B
• SPC.Jat.R

Pros

• Enjoyable concept for game style. Element enjoyed the push pull of match and really focused on our defense tactics.
• Squad handled quick changes and commands well.
• Enjoyed the in-game tactics and adjustments made during the FTX.

Cons

• Comms was rough in the beginning but ended cleaning up.
• Short one guy to effectively support other squads and point defense/building.
• Element Leader was not able to attend all strategy briefings due to scheduling and trainings. Element made due with respect of role in the FTX.
  • We were suppose to build a manpower node on point, we were not able due to node built at the HQ spawns. Unsure how this could of changed the outcome.

 

[Berkowski.C]

Element Callsign: Allied Armor "Okay Boomer"
Element Leader: Sergeant Berkowski.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Berkowski.C
Specialist Martinez.X
Sergeant Button.J
Pros:

• Excellent FTX. Liked the system.
• Good leadership coms.

Cons:

• Crew members had comm/game issues and IRL distractions.

 

[Curran.J]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT]​

Element Callsign: Item Squad (Axis)
Element Leader:Specialist Curran.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Plum.L
Private First Class Kolanko.T
Private First Class Maikranz.J


Pros:

• Great idea and a lot of fun.
• Squad did great with coms when they worked and did well to transfer to discord coms.
• Callouts and marks on map were good.

Cons:

• Coms went down halfway through match for most of squad.

 

[Wisniewski.A]

Element Callsign: How Squad, Allies
Element Leader: Corporal Wisniewski.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Harris.W
Sergeant Cantrell.J
Recruit Hessler.R


Pros:

• Fun SP idea, we really enjoyed the concept
• Great Teamwork and coms on squad level and btw/ leadership on discord
• Squad did well being fluid and flexible, responding to threats quickly and effectively. When moving, they stuck with their battle buddies
• Planning seemed to have worked out well for the first half hour or so, and when they found holes in our defense, all squads on SME responded well

Cons:

• I was slow to confirm receipt of some orders, causing some confusion amongst leadership

 

[Leifried.R]

S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Allied LTC Callsign Daddy's Belt
Element Leader: Corporal Leifried.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Private Carrasco.J
Private First Class Raid.R

Pros:

• Learned why it's important for SP subjects
• Discovered 2 new HLL bugs affecting comms
• Op structure was excellent, but was so hindered by the base game I couldn't give a true eval of this op. Seemed excellent from others' perspectives

Cons:

• Comms bug happening 50 minutes in as LTC for a team is a death sentence. No time to quit and restart when you're on the back foot, have to make do with what you got and is extremely hindering
• Negligent discharges from Charlie Co members resulting in deaths of teammates ( unacceptable )
• Armor was balanced on paper but once the match started, was clear due to circumstances we could and could not control that it was not

 

[Karr.H]

Element Callsign: Allied Love
Element Leader: Corporal Karr.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Specialist Corsino.D
Specialist Kiing.T
Private McKenzie.Z
Specialist Ackerman.J
Specialist Blade.B

Pros:

• Loved the FTX concept it allowed my section to focus on defense which we need.
• The other team put up a good fight and made us fight over every inch of ground.
• My squad rarely lost any ground. When we did lose ground we always pushed back with out losing more ground.

Cons:

• A Comms bug happened 45 minutes in but thankfully I had a trooper who stepped up while I reset my game.
• Command Comms were a mess, I could not hear anyone in command if they didn't say my name.