AAR Arma 3 | Operation Tough Cookie

[Sparrow.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Tough Cookie
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 29JUN24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Sam.T
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Moraru.R | Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P

Attendees: 39
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Major Bunnell.M
Major Mackey.A
Captain Highman.J
First Lieutenant Berg.J
First Lieutenant Moraru.R
First Lieutenant Narramoor.A
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Turn.J
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Sergeant Turner.L
Corporal Abate.L
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Hoidahl.N
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Daniel.S
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist McAllen.J
Specialist Perea.A
Private First Class Bryan.R
Private First Class Marston.C
Private Donovan.J
Private Gibbs.K

 

[Holiday.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Atlas-3
Element Leader: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:



Pros:
Team had fun
Great to see Logistics back in ops
Great working with pilots to get helos back into the air
CSAR for Sparrow-2

Cons:
Little slow at times
Full repair times were insane, our AUV was barely damaged after driving into a building and had a 1000s repair time

 

[Narramoor.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Bandit-2
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Captain Highman.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Abate.L
Private Donovan.J
Private First Class Marston.C

Pros:

• Professional and calm, low contact allowed concise communications
• Relatively ok convoy operations, could have been better
• Good mutual support and communication within the squad and between 1st and 2nd Squad
• Good inclusion with the HMMVWs, well planned inclusion.
• Good AI placement from mission maker / was working well with the garrisoning

Cons:

• Fire team members felt confused on intent, more questions / better FRAGOs in future
• Would have liked to see more contact:
  • I appreciate this was in the OPORD, but a lack of patrols, QRFs or follow-on contact
    • This would have been a good opportunity to utilise the 60mm mortars in 4th for CFF
  • No vehicular contact, would have been nice to have some hard targets or some more thorough obstacles in the defence.
• Low visibility whilst driving, more spacing in convoy?
• More team comms on radio from actual needed
• React to IDF was slow in some instances, first react was really good.
• No things to blow up in a raid!

 

[Albright.J]

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 Albright.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Bunell.M
Corporal Maco.D
Specialist Winters.R


Pros

• Good surgery training for our member new to this role
• Smooth movement as a whole: There were no extended periods of waiting, as Atlas-1 always had orders and knew what to do

Con

• Overall below average vibe; there seemed a lack of balance with the severity of the casulties, as we either got near unsafeable patients, or those with only very minor injuries, very little in between.
• Relatively poor situational awareness due to me crashing several times, forcing me to reorient first after rejoining
• Missunderstanding over the radio on my end slowed down etablishment of the first CCP

 

[Dread.M]

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

Element Callsign: SPARROW-1
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Spit.K


Pros

• Good opportunities for ISR
• Coordination was good between CHAOS and SPARROW Flight

Cons

• Seemed like contact was sparse

 

[Borenstein.B]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Bandit-4
Element Leader: Specialist Borenstein.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Terp.J
Corporal Whitehead.B
Sergeant Lucander.P

Pros:
Team had fun
Fun to use MK19
60mm usage on KT-1

Cons:
Could have had a higher intensity level
Not planning alternate route before step off

 

[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: Bandit-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Sam.T

Pros

• Squad and platoon comms were solid.
• Information and FRAGOs were quick and effective.
• Firefights sounded great when they occurred.
• Suitable employment of 60mm fires on KT.
• Aviation felt solid and effective in their attacks.
• The FARP Team was fantastic and sounded well received both by the personnel within the team and the aviation they were supporting.

Cons

• The contact level didn't align with the Company (-) reported in the SALUTE.
• Turnout was mid, leading to an un-filled to half-strength weapons squad.
• There are a few issues with the expected logi team composition, considering how long it's been since its use.
• Employing the weapons squad felt hit or miss; personal improvement.

 

[Blake.H]

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

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Element Callsign: Bandit-7
Element Leader: Corporal Blake.H


Pros

• ATLAS-1 provided very good SITREPs when requested.
• ATLAS-1 maneuvered safely and managed to remain close to the infantry and was responsive.
• Platoon level CCP's utilized correctly on OBJ's post-combat.
• Successful CSAR preformed by ATLAS-3 of 1 red and 1 yellow Pilot casualty and delivered to BANDIT-7. Both survived and returned to the air.

Indifferent

• Platoon medic was quite far away from the assault for almost the entirety of this mission but at no expense to tactical awareness mostly due to high elevation of SBF's.
• Mission was mid, enjoyable but felt more like an FTX or going through the motions.
• ATLAS-3 requested medical aid directly through LR56 which felt a little strange though they have no real POC in absence of ATLAS-6.
• 2 Black Casualties Platoon wide, both expectant on arrival.

Cons

• -5's Driving
• My Driving
• Lack of a grid readback noted in AAR

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!

Assigned Fletcher.J for processing.

 

[Fletcher.J]

S1 Operations Processed.