AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Black Bear 24 | Operation South Paw

[Zaren.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Campaign Black Bear 24, Operation South Paw
Number Within Campaign: 1/4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 04MAY24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: Corporal Rodahl.S , Corporal Zaren.T
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A

Attendees: 49

1. Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
2. Captain Beiter.A
3. Captain Highman.J
4. First Lieutenant Sam.T
5. First Lieutenant Thumper.N
6. Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A
7. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dujakovic.R
8. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
9. Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
10. First Sergeant Vincent.L
11. Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
12. Staff Sergeant Turn.J
13. Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
14. Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
15. Sergeant Crowley.T
16. Sergeant Davis.D
17. Sergeant Holiday.T
18. Sergeant Lucander.P
19. Sergeant Wisser.C
20. Sergeant Turner.L
21. Corporal Albright.J
22. Corporal Kastor.K
23. Corporal Bethea.A
24. Corporal Blake.H
25. Corporal Dio.B
26. Corporal Eugene.R
27. Corporal Rodahl.S
28. Corporal Zaren.T
29. Specialist Borenstein.B
30. Specialist Bishop.C
31. Specialist Fougere.J
32. Specialist Franklin.J
33. Specialist Hamm.C
34. Specialist Kuusela.N
35. Specialist McAllen.J
36. Specialist Vincent.C
37. Specialist West.Z
38. Specialist Williams.U
39. Specialist Winters.R
40. Specialist Xinos.T
41. Private First Class Neubauer.P
42. Private First Class McMaster.G
43. Private First Class Dellow.J
44. Private Blades.D
45. Private Boyd.M
46. Private Holmes.G
47. Private Lee.P
48. Private Tahai.L
49. Corporal Macdonald.I (RETIRED)

Technical issue:

• Server-wide disconnects / Connection loss for 1/3rd of the players which happened and 2 separate occasions.
• TFAR Radio issues between EAGLE Flight (F/A-18) and Forward Air Controller (CHAOS-1). Pilots had to resort to backpack radios and they had to be reset every time they spawned back at the carrier.

 

[Vincent.L]

Element Callsign: VIKING-5
Element Leader: First Sergeant Vincent.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Kiser.C

Public Players: N/A

Pros:

• Fun OP
• Good use of Viking-5 for rearm, repair, and reinserts
• Good planning by Viking-6

Cons:

• Large amount of radio nets to listen in on.
• Random disconnects
• Lack of Armor targets for Sierra

 

[Beiter.A]

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: Captain Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Beiter.A
Master Sergeant Couvillion.T
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Turner.L
Sergeant Davis.D
Sergeant Wisser.C
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Franklin.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Vincent.C
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist West.Z
Private Lee.P
Private Holmes.G

Pros:

• Atlas did some great work tonight!
• Good operation overall
• Good coms between the squad AKA Platoon by the size of us
• Fantastic buddy aid tonight from the troopers

Cons:

• Movement could be better for the squad
• Low infantry contact mainly just a lot of MG positions and or static weapons
• RPG awareness within the squad, we would take one, call it out and yet no response, that falls onto myself
• Stryker's felt somewhat pointless tonight from Sierra tonight. They were more of a magnet from ATGMs and RPGs so they couldn't perform well tonight sadly.

 

[Highman.J]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Campaign Black Bear 24, Operation South Paw
Element Callsign: RAVEN Flight
Element Leader: Captain Highman.J (Raven-2 PIC)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Hamm.C (Raven-1 PIC)
Private Boyd.M (Raven-1 CP)

Pros:

• Fun OP, well designed, well briefed
• Great fun flying and functioning as a formation
• Solid planning and workflow sharing among Ravens
• Good frame rates and performance despite the persistent low fog
• Great to use the Littlebirds
• 10-12 reinserts and an EPW extraction

Cons:

• Comms were sub-optimal
• Often times we went untasked
• We felt under-utilized in general
• The KICK! Affected all Ravens, half of Eagle, Chaos and a couple other people. No BattleEye or Steam or PBO warning.... just a kick message.

 

[Sam.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: Specialist Williams.U

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Sam.T
Private Blades.D

Pros:

• Amazing medical turnout at the start! Nearly 2x full medical teams, most of which were billeted medics!
• Massive thanks to the handful of 68Ws that dropped from the medical teams to help fill out the infantry.
• Decent amount of casualties considering the mechanized nature and lower initial turnout.
• CLS work from Viking-1 was excellent, and the handoff from their SL at one point was dope!
• Good amount of fractures, 1x complex and a good spread of simples.
• Got to run some newer medics through medical training and medical SOPs (CCP establishment, advanced cardiac treatment).
• Generally the team performed excellently, working through 1:1 casualty to medic ratios easily.

Cons:

• Low infantry turnout, 1.5-2 squads at step off. Great to see all the medics present, suboptimal having to pull them out of their desired roles to help bolster the infantry squads.
• Discovered cardiac tamponade not presenting with degrading SPo2, and possibly cardiac arrest as well. Had 2x casualties expire under care due to their SPo2 bottoming out due to cardiac tamponade.
• Server issues were felt across the platoon.

 

[Winters.R]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: Specialist Winters.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Eugene.R
Private First Class McMaster.G

Pros:

• KAT practice for newer less medical personnel with complex chest wounds​
• Got exciting at the end and in other places​

Cons:

• Little medical work to do throughout OP
• Boredom and frustration in squad. Lead to one rage quit
• Right flank exposed in 4.3 lane
• Overloaded on radios
• Low numbers

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

Pros

• Good company in the Viking-6 Sierra. We all had fun.
• Elements executed very well, good independent action despite being on the very edge of mutual support range, no need for shift fire
• Excellent work from Viking-4 in delivering IDF on targets
• Viking-5/7 Sierra did great work maintaining sustainment, the POWs and re-inserts.

Cons

• Low numbers - lots of ground to cover
• some strange server disconnect issues
• Should've moved up the Viking-4 MFP so they could utilise direct fires for SBF.

 

[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. Sergeant Lucander.P
DV. Specialist Fougere.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Dellow.J
Sergeant Holiday.T
Corporal Dio.B
Corporal Macdonald.I
Specialist McAllen.J


Pros:

• Good Teamwork within the Teams and Squad Together and Squad Comms.
• Squad/Sierra Coordination was excellent
• Squad Tactical Awareness and feel of the flow of Action was good.
• Squad actions on. Swift, Purposeful.. Violence of Action
• Coordinated Fire Support for Tactical Movements was good.
• Squad Call For Fire was good
• Strong Sierra Crew Actions.
• Atlas Crew was great.
• Great Mission and Zeus Work.

Cons:

• Slow Battle Flow to Start for most of Squad(Lack of Trigger Time)
• No ammo Avail for Mortars for Follow On"s Available for Sierra 5
• 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 240 Ammunition and Equipment and LAT)
• Mass Server Disconnets.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!

Assigned Rasmus.M for Processing.