AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Hit List

[Geki.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Hit List
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): N/A
Number within campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 2
Date of Combat Mission: 01MAY21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2100z
Mission OIC: Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Ocean.M

Number of Attendees: 31

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Colonel Mitsuma.R
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
First Lieutenant Ronen.R
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Abbassi.G
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Vercin.G
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronnings.P
Staff Sergeant Ocean.M
Staff Sergeant Coots.J
Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Goel.B
Retired Sergeant Harry Blake
Warrant Officer 1 Spitnale.K
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Langlois.R
Corporal Burton.P
Corporal Guerra.J
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Luz.S
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Gann.T
Corporal Macdonald.I
Specialist Dread.M
Specialist Dio.B
Specialist Sypolt.R
Specialist Winters.Z
Private First Class Grills.A
Private First Class Bowman.B
Private First Class Kavinsky.S
Private First Class Lopez.S


Pros:

Cons:

If you have medal recommendations, are not on this AAR by 06MAY21, or concerns, please send Mission OIC a PM.

 

[Burton.P]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Corporal Burton.P

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Burton.P
Private First Class Grills.A
Sergeant Saint.Z
Specialist Dio.B
Corporal Guerra.J
First Lieutenant Ronen.R
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Lucander.P
Private First Class Grills.A
Corporal Luz.S

Sergeant First Class Goel.B

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Pros:

• Lots of contacts
• Solid ambushes
• Great jungle warfare

Cons:

• Jungle isn't the best for vehicles
• React to ambush needs some work
• Turnout was low, shown 9 in attendance but all said and done, we had a 4-man fireteam, a SL, a driver and a gunner by the end. We need Cav members to start showing up to this stuff and staying throughout. Ops are regularly 2 hours long.

 

[Ronnings.P]

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

Element Callsign: Infidel-2
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronnings.P


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronnings.P

Pros

• All designated targets located and destroyed
• 5 Successfull 9-Lines
• Good Communications with Eagle 2 flight
• Good Communications with Eagle 1 flight
• Good Communications with Buffalo 1
• No casualty
• Alot of fun

Cons

• Got a little slow waiting for Eagle to check back in on LR Net 13 after targets were located and 9-Lines prepared
• Should have brought NVG due to it getting very dark by the end

 

[Maco.D]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Corporal Dan Maco

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Dan Maco

Retired Sergeant Harry Blake
Pro:
Fun
Plenty of medical work for both medics
Good teamwork
Infidel-1 on point for a medical resupply


Con:
No Platoon Medic
overuse to 40mm around Civs
Load-outs still using wrong kits (quickclots, double items)
People lost their focus when taking to much contact
Many times overwhelmed with contact which is resulted in heavy causalities
Medical not being called on 20 as it also SOP
both Medics took heavy injuries when Platoon took heavy contact

 

[Dread.M]

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

Element Callsign: Infidel-1
Element Leader: Specialist Dread.M


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Dread.M


Pros

• Great mission design from an aviation standpoint
• Good coordination while birds were on station
• Challenging operation
• Rounds on target no blue on blue

Cons

• Channel swapping caused a long delay in support that slowed the mission on the ground with some ineffective strikes

 

[Summerfield.P]

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

Element Callsign: Pegasus-5
Element Leader: First Sergeant Summerfield.P


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Summerfield.P

Pros

• Good Comms all around
• No mid air collisions or crashes
• 5 airframes and a drone!
• Carrier mission

Cons

• Carrier would randomly eat F-18s

 

[Vercin.G]

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

Element Callsign: Eagle 1-1
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Gregory Vercin

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A


Pros

• Lots of missions
• F-18's are tons of fun
• No desync or ACRE issues
• Good comms
• Great performance with carrier landings all around

Cons

• Tanoa is not an ideal fixed wing map, an attack rotory asset would be more suited
• Aircraft carrier must C O N S U M E

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: Buffalo-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C


7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spitnale.K
Specialist Sypolt.R

Pros

• Extremely fun and busy for Buffalo-1 with re-inserts and logistics/resupply.
• Carrier ops are really fun and offer a unique variation from land/airbase ops. Would be SO COOL if carrier was fully functional (i.e. moving etc.).
• Buffalo-1 aircrew teamwork was off-scale fantastic. (Especially coordination with near-IMC and dark conditions near the end).
• Quasi-IMC conditions in concert with night conditions created a very challenging and fun situation for pilot and aircrew.
• Excellent comms with Pegasus, Infidel, Ground and Air. Chief Spitnale was delegated comms and did fantastically as always.
• Great Crew Chief is worth their weight in Gold.

Cons

• Repair facilities on Carrier unfound/unavailable. Buffalo-1 did not take significant damage (no cautions/warnings/yellow/red/injuries/casualties) but even small arms hits causes a "shimmy" shaking/vibration in the cockpit which is very annoying. Repair options would have been nice.
• Always need 2 helicopters minimum IMO, specifically UH-60 Blackhawks. While I was happy to be super-busy and utilized, a second B-hawk should have been present, optional, to rotate tasks between re-inserts and/or logistics/resupply but also for MedEvac and QRF purposes. Further, having another bird gives Alpha Co. Pilots and Aircrew more official operational training and experience.
• AH-64 Apache, as always, would have been an extremely nice and flexible asset to Infidel, as an option. That could have been a big utilization.

 

[Hobbs.T]

S1 Operarions denied.

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[Hobbs.T]

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[Derry.B]

LOCKED

 

[Derry.B]

S1/Operations updated.