AAR AAR | Arma 3 | Campaign Black Bear 24 | Phase 4 | Operation Honeypot

[Rodahl.S]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
BRAVO TROOP
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Name of Combat Mission: Campaign Black Bear 24, Operation Honeypot
Number Within Campaign: 4
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 10AUG2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Sam.T
Mission Controller: Corporal Zaren.T | Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S


Attendees 43 (50):

1. Lieutenant Colonel Dread.M
2. Major Bunnell.M
3. Major Highman.J
4. Major Mackey.A
5. Major Ronen.R
6. First Lieutenant Narramoor.A
7. First Lieutenant Sam.T
8. Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
9. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
10. Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
11. Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
12. Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
13. Staff Sergeant Willson.JA
14. Sergeant Crowley.T
15. Sergeant Lucander.P
16. Sergeant Turner.L
17. Corporal Bethea.A
18. Corporal Hoidahl.N
19. Corporal Kastor.K
20. Corporal Maco.D
21. Corporal McAllen.J
22. Corporal Terp.J
23. Corporal Shepard.S
24. Corporal Whitehead.B
25. Corporal Zaren.T
26. Specialist Apollo.R
27. Specialist Bryan.R
28. SPC.Cruz.N
29. Specialist Fougere.J
30. Specialist Holmes.G
31. Specialist Kuusela.N
32. Specialist Laui.M
33. Specialist Lee.P
34. Specialist Perea.A
35. Specialist Rok.M
36. Specialist Shere.J
37. Specialist Winters.R
38. Specialist Xinos.T
39. Private First Class Donovan.J
40. Private Pierce.JA
41. Recruit Griffin.Z
42. RET.Houston.T
43. RET.Saint.Z

 

[Blake.H]

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: Corporal Blake.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Pierce.JA

Pros:

• Always a pleasure working with Viking-5.
• Nice to have a surgeon as a buddy.
• Decent medical coms on 56.
• Good casualty calls provided on platoon net.
• Enjoyable mission.

Neutral:

• Felt like a lot of time in the vehicles for this one though understandable for the type of operation.
• The map was perhaps a little bit too cluttered.
• Slow to progress from AOI1 to AOI2.

Cons:

• Viking-5 being relayed medical requests instead of directly to Viking-7 on platoon net from Viking-3.
• Breakdown in communication leaving ATLAS-1 too close to the assault on AOI3 for a short time.

 

[Narramoor.A]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-5
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Narramoor.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• All airframes did really strong work.
• All infantry teams gave very good sustainment comms.
• Successful extraction of the EPWS! None of them died
• Really good use of the Mortars by -4
• Very well put together mission with nice defensive elements and good flexing of the plan by -6.

Cons:

• A few tactical missteps with elements moving out of positions that thankfully didn't slap us too much.
• Minimal work for Medical teams, more than usual for a mech OP though.
• 2 and 4 felt like they had light or awkward tasking at times

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: Viking-3
Element Leader: Saint.Z (RET)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SL
Corporal Saint.Z (RET)

Sierra
Corporal Bethea.A
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R

Alpha
Sergeant Willson.JA
Corporal Hoidahl.N
Specialist Perea.A
Houston.T (RET)

Bravo
Sergeant Turner.L
Sergeant Crowley.T
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Rok.M


Pros:
-well done medal worthy performance
-good challenge
-awareness as a squad was good
-execution of tactics was well done
-atlas was on their A game
- "A professional team that was an over achieving"
-as a charlie co unit they enjoyed this bravo style op
-loved the squad make up
-the squad organization was well done
-assaults were well done
-3rd assault was "SIIIIICK"
-the btr in the barn was rough but also welcome
-MBT column was awesome shit to see come at us but also scary
-fun time with the boys
-accountability was awesome with the battle buddies and medical
-atlas on point
-lot of fun
-sierra movent good
-Alpha had a lot of fun
-"best bravo op in forever"
-loved the map choice
-loved the combat
-fantastic bravo op
-VIOLENCE OF ACTION ON POINT
-loved the squad
-medical treatment on battle buddies on point
-sierra was excellent at coverage
-super effective Sierra
-loved the team
- loved working together
-sierra shot 2 helos down and dodged an RPG (super cool)
-(redacted)
-MBT rolling in on us was a awesome no shit brown pants moment

Cons:
-a lot of open ground crossings and got shot a decent amount.
-somehow missed AT4 shots and squad is disappointed in their accuracy
-(nit pick) wanted more squad formations
-someone waxed two officers although they did engage a team mate
-couple of times A striker had cross fire and overhead fire over our squad and Striker nearly blu on blu but never produced casualties
-2nd assault was worried that the fire on the upper windows would have killed the POW in the hospital
-team mate thinks that if we need to take prisoners, the AI needs to surrender much faster
-sometimes the vehicle comms were slightly off at times

 

[Lucander.P]

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

Element Callsign: Viking - 4
Element Leader: Sergeant Lucander.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Mackey.A
Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A
Sergeant Lucander.P
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Terp.J
Specialist Bryan.R

Pros:
Good squad coordination.
Fun time for infantry.
More active then most SBF's on mech operations.


Cons:
Outside of Support Range, Floating on our own.
Sierra got "ammo rakt" multi pal times.
Sierra had a hard time against Modern MBT.
A lot of running.

 

[Dread.M]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Laui.M

Pros:
Good mission design
Great working with a new copilot/gunner
Decent engagement opportunities

Cons:
Not a flaw of mission design, but with no masking ability we had to choose standoff and extremely limit target acquisition or place the airframe in danger. Mission support could have been done better with FW or using a RAVEN/SPARROW to sit back at altitude with better optics to identify targets with RAIDER running and gunning. We had fun regardless.

 

[Donovan.J]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-2
Element Leader: Specialist Fougere.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Shepard.S
Corporal McAllen.J
Specialist Kuusela.N
Specialist Xinos.T
Specialist Holmes.G
Specialist Shere.J
Private First Class Donovan.J
Recruit Griffin.Z

Non-Cav Personnel:
GHOST

Pros:

• Good communication from inner-squad comms, between teams.
• Clearing, bounding, and buddy medical was spot on in the trenched position near the last objective.

Cons:

• Not a lot of action, lots of just inside Stryker and supporting from afar and flanking at the last objective.
• Not utilizing the vehicle as it's meant to be used and infantry to follow as parallel.
• MOUT techniques as mechanized infantry were not done properly.

 

[Sam.T]

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

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

Pros:

• Good work from the squads.
• Good work from Atlas.
• Good flexibility
• The mortar fire mission was executed well.
• Overall, it was a solid mission and a fun campaign continuation.

Cons:

• A few instances of delayed communication lead to slightly longer periods of downtime.
• Some tomfoolery from the Atlas-1 driver at AOI-3 (driving into the assault and the RPG spam Viking-3 was taking).
• Low initial turnout led to concerns about executing the OP plan, but late-joiners filled out the teams quite nicely.

 

[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 "Hooker" (PIC)

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Highman.J "Dumbo" (CP)
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L "Plan B" (CC)
Recruit Griffin.Z (DG)

Pros:

• Really enjoyed this OP... great mission design... great OPORD. Excellent leadership.
• Huge highlight for me tonight was our bird's Crew Resource Management (CRM) which was basically flawless. Just amazing teamwork... period.
• Comms with VIKING-5 were on point.
• EPOW exfil total success and fun to accomplish.
• Really enjoyed training opportunity working with new RCT Griffin.Z ... so big welcome to him and his performance as DG tonight. Look forward to working with him more.

Cons:

• Small radio glitch issue with LR52 but successfully managed well.
• While I do enjoy this map, the terrain graphics were kind of glitchy and there was some lag performance issues encountered by our flight.
  

 

[Winters.R]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Specialist Winters.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Bunnell.M
Major Ronen.R
Corporal Maco.D

Pros:

• Good infantry defense with ATLAS-1 personnel when defending CCPs​
• Good squad movement and react to IDF​
• Good amount of medical work of various types​
• Good communications in team and on medical net​

Cons:

• Player disconnects
• Players bored inside of vehicle for long times
• Miscommunication with driver of vehicle. Pushed into danger

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

Assigned Rasmus.M for processing.

 

[Rasmus.M]

S1 Operations Processed