AAR ARMA 3 | May Warfare Wednesday 2024 | WFW 238

[Sam.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 238
Number Within Campaign: 3/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TACR
Date of Combat Mission: 15MAY2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (1700CST)
Mission OIC: Corporal Rodahl.S
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Sam.T
Asst Mission Controller:Private First Class Neubauer.P

Attendees: 35
Colonel LaCombe.M
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Staff Sergeant Turn.J
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Davis.D
Sergeant Holiday.T
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Eugene.R
Corporal Larouche.Z
Corporal Rodahl.S
Corporal Singhal.P
Corporal Teddy.J
Specialist Falleur.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Papa.A
Specialist Roberts.A
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Smith.DM
Specialist Vincent.C
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Willson.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Bryan.R
Private First Class Pierce.A
Private First Class Shere.J
Private Lee.P

 

[Rodahl.S]

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: Corporal Rodahl.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
(Sierra-6 Gunner) Corporal Bethea.A
(Sierra-6 Driver) Staff Sergeant Westcott.R

Pros:

• Warning Order was great, came out well in advance, and allowed me to prepare for most circumstances.
• We had great comms on Platoon net.
• Destroyed a disgusting amount of enemy contact. Fantastic crew.
• High frames consistently throughout the OP, apart from when Friendly assets were mobilized in the end.
• We had great, collapsible positions over the operation, making both falling back and pushing out easy tasking due to strong SLs.
• Endex was called at prescribed time.

Cons:

• Slow "infil", Misunderstanding by me where I thought we had time to get to the LOA. V1 got caught on route and was in a quagmire.
• Dipped a little too much into S6 action, although due to a slightly low turnout, it was not at a detriment. Will take for personal improvement.
• "Low numbers". We had two squads with full crew for all Strykers. Even though I would love more people to join these OPs, I believe that with a great mission maker and an available plan we can make it work.
• Blue on Blue incident, rectified and cleared.

 

[Sparrow.P]

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



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Element Callsign: RAIDER FLIGHT (1,2)
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P

Personnel in Flight:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K

Pros:

• Good Time
• Fun
• Helicopter Dogfighting is fun
• ATAS worked
• Murdered everything

Cons

• Thermal Layers sucked
• Map Size is on the smaller side

 

[McAllen.J]

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: SPC.McAllen.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A
Pros:

• Good communication and teamwork with Atlas teams.
• Decent amount of medical, felt like an even amount of work was distributed.
• Atlas was able to join in the contact at some points at POI king so they had fun.

Cons:

• Raider almost killed Atlas-2 with overshot while dogfighting.
• Buddy aid was poor, and patients are walking away before being cleared by Atlas.
• Had an Atlas member moving around on his own without a buddy.
• Step off time was delayed which resulted in contacts pushing through to POI King.

 

[Turn.J]

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: Staff Sergeant Turn.J

Personnel in Unit:
Staff Sergeant Geki.T
Sergeant Davis.D
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Larouche.Z
Corporal Teddy.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Smith.DM
Specialist Vincent.C
Specialist Willson.R
Private First Class Shere.J
Private Lee.P

Retired Personnel:
Retired Houston.T

Pros:

• Solid movement
• Good Communication.
• Inter-squad comms were also exceptional.
• I liked the aggression in counter-attacking.

Cons

• A little bit stuck in the mud occasionally.
• Positions were condensed
• Stryker mobility under-utilized
• Assault over open field instead of through key terrain was ill advised.
• Blue on Blue from Viking-6

 

[Blake.H]

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: Corporal Blake.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Holiday.T
Private First Class Bryan.R

Pros:

• Very good security pulled by team members.
• Got into a lot of combat due to scope of operation/restrictive positioning and won the firefight.
• Received mutual support when requested.
• Excellent execution of break contact by team members.
• Good amount of casualties.
• Decent teamwork and coms.
• Enjoyed the mission.
• Rescued and resuscitated Viking-5 and his vehicle crew after being hit by a presumed ATGM while dismounted and were very close to black tag.

Cons:

• Slow start due to issues with ACE not being updated for some.
• Atlas was not informed Red casualties had been downgraded to yellow casualties in some cases.
• Severely injured casualty walking off during transit to CCP whom then ended up going red later down the line.
• Self CSAR for Raider Pilots, no dispatch.
• Lack of buddy aid in some cases.

 

[Phillips.B]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-2
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Abate.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

• Colonel LaCombe.M
• Sergeant First Class Abate.L
• Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
• Sergeant Crowley.T
• Corporal Singhal.P
• Specialist Falleur.J
• Specialist Papa.A
• Specialist Xinos.T
• Private First Class Pierce.A

Non-7th Cavalry Within Element:

• Rufy
• Dr. Wierd

Pros:

• Defensive Operation
  • Not Common
    • Needs to be more common!
  • Great Position Retakes
• In-Squad Tactics
  • Great Formations
  • Great Communication
  • Great React-To-IDF Drills
  • Good/Fast Position Building
• Vehicle Cohesion
  • Solid/Clear VIC NET Communication
  • My Pit Crew Viking-5 on top of repair requests

Cons:

• Movement
  • Moving almost the entire OP can be draining
  • Better (platoon) lateral movements to facilitate better defensive posture
• Spacing
  • Knowing the enemy has overwhelming IDF this was a priority
• Sierra
  • Sierra was out of the fight almost constantly due to overwhelming OPFOR AT/Aircraft capabilites
  • Repair Times
    • In total, for only our Sierra, a repair bar had to be stared at for approx ~30 minutes
  • No Painkillers in base crew kits

 

[Eugene.R]

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: CPL.Eugene.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Winters.R
SPC.Roberts.A

Non 7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Expendable_Joe
Pros:

• Good communication and coordination within the team.
• Medical tonight was alright, minor injuries hoped for more red tags.
• Atlas got to do infantry stuff and kill enemies/take up positions had a blast.
• No black tags tonight for Atlas-2 always a pro.
• Good mission design, use of infantry tactics is preferred and great to see (more realism from AI.)
• Raider dogfights were nice to see always nice to see Apaches.

Cons:

• Raider almost killed Atlas-2 with overshot while dogfighting. Rounds landed on top of us no damage, but could be avoided/wait till helicopter is past friendlies.
• Individual trooper in team not listening to orders/wandering off constantly very annoying.
• Individual trooper care needs to be improved.
• Non cav player said they experienced cardiac problems unable to shock/had troubles getting a pulse. (believe this was PEA not a bug)
• Overall Platoon lacked infantry strength led to multiple flanks being exposed, small fire team reached POI King while rest of platoon was at Phase Line 2.
• Step off time was slow led to first phase line being lost.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!


Assigned Rasmus.M for Processing.

 

[Rasmus.M]

S1 Operations Processed