AAR ARMA 3 | June WFW | Warfare Wednesday 245

[Sam.T]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 245
Number Within Campaign:1/2
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 03JUL2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: Major Beiter.A
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Sam.T, Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S


Attendees:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A
Major Beiter.A
Major Bunnell.M
First Lieutenant Sam.T
First Lieutenant Thumper.N
Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Davis.D
Sergeant Gann.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Kamenar.M
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal McAllen.J
Corporal Tucker.C
Corporal Zaren.T
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Brian.F
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Hamm.C
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist McMaster.G
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Shere.J
Specialist Winters.R
Private Mendoza.B
Private Donovan.J
Private Gibbs.K
Private Lutz.S
Private Palkki.J

 

[Sparrow.P]

Element Callsign: Bison Flight
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
1st Lieutenant Thumper.N
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Private Palkki.J



Pros:

• Lots to shoot at
• Air to Air was a lot of fun
• Helocast is always fun, and dropping rockets into a target area before the drop always makes it interesting.
• Plenty of fires and spicy moments.
• KA-52 air-to-air kill with a MH-60M MLASS is always fun, because it's not intended for air-to-air.
• Good comms within aviation/flights.
• Good CSAR with penetrator (hoist) rescue.

Cons:

• Miscommunication with fires at the end, resulted in getting shot down, but never died so that's a plus.
• Swapped to MH-47s and then got told to land at the PZ without exfil.

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Bison-2 / Grizzly-1
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Helocast is always fun, and dropping rockets into a target area before the drop always makes it interesting.
• Plenty of fires and spicy moments.
• KA-52 air-to-air kill with a MH-60M MLASS is always fun, because it's not intended for air-to-air.
• Good comms within aviation/flights.
• Good CSAR with penetrator (hoist) rescue.

Cons:

• Miscommunication with fires at the end, resulted in getting shot down, but never died so that's a plus.
• Swapped to MH-47s and then got told to land at the PZ without exfil.
• 604 second repair time was....sub-optimal.

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: BANDIT-6
Element Leader: Major Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Myself and my inner thoughts


Pros:

• Good challenging environment
• Good amount of contact
• Almost a full platoon!

Cons:

• Ambush at the end was foiled due to platoon error.
• Movement was a bit rough with the terrain
• Cohesion broke down on the assault.

 

[McAllen.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 McAllen.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Bunnell.M
Pros:

• Plenty of medical tonight
• Patient communication and pass-offs were well done
• The map is pretty cool in my opinion
• We got to shoot some infantry

Cons:

• Atlas shouldn't be in the rear we should be between squads so we aren't getting engaged
• The helocast was a bit messy since the helo was too close to the coast and was stationary which resulted in unnecessary yellow tags.

 

[Westcott.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: BANDIT-1
Element Leader:Staff Sergeant Westcott.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Kastor.K
Specialist Shepard.S
Specialist Shere.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Brian.F
Specialist McMaster.G
Private Gibbs.K
Private Lutz.S

Pros:

• Individual Trooper discipline was ON POINT this evening. Orders crisply followed, ACE reports prompt and brief. This group made it really easy to lead!
• Excellent succession of command! SL black-tagged and Squad continued the push into AOI 1, Fraggo'd to SBF despite B4 not following the plan.
• During the assault of AOI 1, B1 found the intel, performed first aid on B4's Mass-Cas, cleared the buildings left by B4, and kind of had to wear a lot of hats due to PLT casualties.

Cons:

• Play your Role: Had a trooper as a GRN that was monitoring 59 and kept wandering from their FT to more FWD Observer positions.
• Platoon organization was less than ideal tonight, likely due to terrain and contact envelopment.
• The PLT ambush was .....Trash. If we have the time to plan a hasty ambush we need to stick to the plan. Waiting until the OPFOR are in the killbox is like...step 1-4 of an ambush, followed by TRPs and the kick-off trigger.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

Element Callsign: BUFFALO-2 / GRIZZLY-2
Element Leader: Specialist Hamm.C "Hooker"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L "Plan-B"


Pros:

• Lots of fun with Helo-cast missions.
• Map terrain is challenging for everybody and certainly pilots, but that's what makes it fun. Pretty map too.
• Multiple successful fast rope insertions including 2x on an extremely sloped mountain side. Troopers did excellently.
• Very challenging and successful CSAR hoist and great talk-on by Thumper.N... that was quite challenging.
• A2A kill by BUFFALO-2, great shooting by Renard.S, who was manning the right minigun.

Cons:

• Extremely unfortunate mid air ARMA crash which delayed BUFFALO-2 getting to the initial northern boarding area.
• My airdrop of the supplies could have been much better but I didn't want the chutes to blow too far down that mountain.
• I accidentally crashed the fuel truck into another truck at base, resulting in a huge and damaging explosion. Sorry Alpha bros, my bad.
• Incomplete exfil at endex.
• Was definitely looking forward to the dam phase of the mission, but now I get that it doesn't work right, so probably best that leadership 86'd that.

 

[Davis.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Chaos
Element Leader: Sergeant Davis.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: N/A

Pros:

• Great Communication Between Bison 1 & 2 and Myself
• Attack on targets were solid
• Worked with Both Bandit-6 & Bandit-5
• Had a lot of fun with the terrain, the canopies, posing difficult ISR but was accomplished
• Helocast was great but needs improvement
• Bison's doing A2A when it's not meant to was massive for keeping our air clear
• Buddy aid was on point, found myself a few times patching up some wounded while atlas was having their hands full or getting their teeth kicked in

Cons:

• The tertiary task was a bit sloppy, on my end miscommunication where the bison were supposed positioned
• Was treated by atlas and told I was green then had cardiac tamponade resulting in me being down for 5-10 mikes
• Had a trooper on 59 relaying what the pilots were saying and would chime into the pilots
• Need improvement on 5-lines and not quick blurts of attack
• A few times mic was muted resulting in some comms issue
• Issues within the Plt with an SL would try to tell 6 what they were going to do instead of following the plan
• The pilot had a massive repair time like 600 Seconds

 

[Dread.M]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
Sergeant Major Schmidt.A


Pros:

• HELOCAST is fun
• Map is fun to fly over
• Improv FRIES on the side of a mountain with trooper hitting the deck and smoking enemy shooting at the bird (shout out to Gillman)
• Explosions on base always make me giggle

Cons:

• 80 minutes of firewatch on a flightline. Insert and one reinsert didn't make the OP worth logging in for 10 minutes of flight out of the 90 minutes.
• Troopers not being remotely professional during the brief. Highly considering only briefing unit and support leaders. Small unit leaders can brief in game to their subordinate members.

 

[Winters.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: Specialist Winters.R

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Expendable_Joe

Pros:

• Good buddy aid. Many troopers were bandaged when ATLAS-2 came on scene​
• Good amount of medical work of various types​
• Good teamwork with ATLAS-2​
• Medical net was good​

Cons:

• Delay of ATLAS-2 insertion due to pilot disconnect
• ATLAS-2 was hit by 40mm grenade fire from rear
• Lidocaine still not working for simple fractures. Severe pain caused even if applied to affected limb and waiting 30 secs
• Unauthorized CCP set up right next to pre established CCP 50 meters away in ambush zone. Endangered medical and trooper personnel

 

[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:

• Good use of platoon CCP's.
• Good buddy/personal aid observed.
• Decent coms with ATLAS teams, kept me up to date with returns to station.
• Good use of infantry skills by ATLAS teams.
• Helocast's are always fun.
• Mission was fun, atlas kept busy and on their toes.
• Very nice map, good frames.

Indifferent:

• Atlas took a mas cas on Break Contact order from a 40mm, still managed to break contact though with no fatalities.
• I was unable to reposition Atlas-1 to bandit-3's MASCAS during the ambush phase until contacts were dealt with.

Cons:

• Sparrow.P Bizon-1 helocast was done stationary, the bird should have an airspeed of 5 to 10(?) to prevent people falling on each other, it was also a bit too close to the shoreline as people were hitting the bottom of the river without swimming.
• The platoon moved off before ATLAS was ready, leaving them and i distanced at one point.
• I was a little bit quiet/slow on platoon net tonight.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked!

Assigned Hood.D for processing.

 

[Hood.D]

S1 Operations processed.