AAR Arma 3 | WFW 249 | Operation Cocaine Cowboyz

[Moraru.R]

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

Name of Combat Mission: WFW 249 | Operation Cocaine Cowboyz
Number Within Campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 28AUG2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z (0100GMT+2) (0100GMT+2)
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Sam.T
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Hilberg.A / Corporal Bethea.A / First Lieutenant Moraru.R


Attendees: 54
Colonel LaCombe.M
Major Beiter.A
Major Bunnell.M
Major Mackey.A
First Lieutenant Narramoor.A
Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M
Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Sutodoreh.W
First Sergeant Jupiter.J
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Staff Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Holiday.T
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal Kuusela.N
Corporal Larouche.Z
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal McAllen.J
Corporal Shepard.S
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Winters.R
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Borenstein.B
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Ratliff.B
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist Ramyad.R
Specialist Shere.J
Private First Class Burnside.C
Private First Class Donovan.J
Private First Class Gibbs.K
Private First Class Pierce.JA
Private Torres.K
Private Constance.J
Private Banks.M
Private Fuller.T

Retired:
RET.Houston.T
RET.Saint.Z
RET.York.A

Non-Cav Members:
Catch_The_Blues
Cpl. James
Dr. Wierd
FullSaltyDoge

 

[Holiday.T]

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: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Bunnell.M


Pros:
No black tags
Great casualty care
Good team work
Good communication

Cons:

 

[Beiter.A]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: HELLCAT-2
Element Leader: Major Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Fuller.T


Pros:

• Tucano is fun
• Dogfights with Viper was cool

Cons:

• Our aircraft couldn't see any lasers from anyone
• CTAB Crashes
• Didn't drop a single bomb
• For my WSO first op, I felt bad for him given the little action we had
• Air to Ground coms were limited
• Hellcat-2 after 2 hours of flying around in circles just went back to base
• Cameras and Sensors on the aircraft is pretty rough

Notes:
The Tucano is a fun aircraft to fly and provides a different mission type for CAS and can be utilized in more ops if it fits the mission. I thoroughly enjoyed flying it around. The biggest cons with the aircraft is its limited abilities to see targets with its cameras. It requires a both a pilot and WSO to function properly and works great if everything else works around us. I would like to see more use of it and I’ll personally make use of it in my missions.

 

[McAllen.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-7
Element Leader: Corporal McAllen.J



Pros:

• Casualties were plentiful and were quickly treated
• Plenty of cool locations to assault
• Comms in between myself and Misfit elements were quick and efficient
• Overall Atlas liked the mission

Cons:

• Lots of disconnects
• LZ at Tallahasse was a bit too hot for the 2nd bird
• Rarely got callbacks when Atlas was clear of casualties
• We never had time to treat Misfit elements at the beginning of the Op around our WP
• The Mass Cas could've been triaged better
• VIPS were killed when we brought them to the FRAGO Obj

Notes: There were lots of tamponades tonight which resulted in at least 1 black tag so we need to make sure infantry checks in with their CLS or Atlas personnel to make sure they don't need Advanced Care.

Op went on a bit longer than expected, we should try to get accountability of who wants to continue forward so we don't keep people for too long.

 

[Sam.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-6
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Sam.T


Pros:

• Overall, it was a good movement from LZ to OBJ.
• Decent execution of the raid on AOI-3.
• Good flexibility from the platoon.
• Top work from 5 and 7.
• Follow-on objective was dope!
• It seemed that player red-air was well received across the board—either a pro from aviation or a non-factor for the ground guys.
• I like the longer OP; these are awesome from an EST/EDT perspective!

Cons:

• In between objectives, the movement from some squads was hit-or-miss.
• Helo's crash on follow-on objectives took the wind out of our sales.
• OPSKED was optimistic.
• More extended OPs for WFW are rough for our EU friends, so there's a mixed bag there.

 

[Winters.R]

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: Specialist Winters.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Recruit Constance.J

Non-7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Dr. Wierd
Expendable_Joe

Pros:

• Good amount of action​
• Patients received were very manageable​
• New medic in squad​
• Good movement​
• 2IC took care of business when I was dealing with connection issues​
• CCP use good once I was able to reconnect​

Cons:

• New medic needs work/practice/guideance
• Grizzly crash with ATLAS on board. VIPS killed
• Game crashed with CTAB bug and battle eye kicked, needed to restart system. Was unable to do full PCC/PCI and actual gone first half hour
• Mass causality triage not properly with critical patients left untreated with yellows being treated

 

[Borenstein.B]

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Casey.W
SPC.Gilman.A
MAJ.Mackey.A
SPC.Rok.M
SPC.Ramyad.R
COL.LaCombe.M
SGT.Crowley.T
CPL.Marcus.J
PVT.Banks.M
CPL.Larouche.Z

Non-Cav:
Gnomad


Pros:

• Great Squad TRPs
• good ACE report intervals
• Movement was good, even in the tight, dense jungle
• VoA with the MAAWs and other combat multipliers
• Talking guns observed
• Calls for fire, clear concise and direct
• Experienced leaders with high battle IQ
• Platoon Comms crispy
• Echoing Orders was great
• Splitting off my MAAWs team on AOI-2 was a smart move by 6
• MAAWs blew up a gun boat
• Fun
• Diverse amount of objectives and fires. IHW was properly utilized
• gained upper hand on heavily occupied tree line after a hot LZ drop on last obj with overwhelming amount of fire despite being in the open and taking fire from the rear and flank as well
• noise and light discipline was amazing
• flexible
• interesting operation/ muh lore (MAJ found the blow)
• ATLAS was johnny on the spot
• Fun holding down the original ORP in the jungle/hand grenade range contacts
• No black tags

Cons:

• One of the elements ran in front of us between our SBF and enemy elements between AOI-1 and AOI-3 which caught us by surprise; we thought we nailed down the movement behind us over platoon comms multiple times, so I'm not sure where the breakdown in communication happened where they just ran in the open in our crossfire. Thankfully, there was no direct fire at that time, but its something to keep in mind and learn from as I could have seen that going very bad.
• poor MISFIT-5 had to carry the resupply box about a click, and we had to leave the medical box behind because of paratroopers.

 

[Westcott.R]

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

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Element Callsign: Misfit-5
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Westcott.R


Pros:

• Excellent work by ALL Buffalo/Grizzly personnel tonight. You guys were the epitome of "Semper Gumby"! Swapping airframes, cycling and shifting LZ's, resupply and reinserts handled expediently. Consummate professionals all evening and it is truly a pleasure to work with you every time I get the chance.
• Excellent initial platoon movements, follow on maneuvers were crisp as well.
• Mission was awesome! Good fun, appropriate contact level, tough but fair.
• M4 did EXCELLENT work on the insert to the final OBJ. Only squad on the deck in a hot LZ and contact on 3 sides, layed down hate and then pushed to a tree-line, layed down more hate, then maneuvered again to a blocking position for the MASCAS from the 2nd Helo insert crashing. M4 held the line.

Cons:

• I ran across 3 public players that were just completely separated from their respective squads. It is paramount that if we get these peeps in the server we keep track of them and get them in the fight.
• People are still looting OPFOR bodies and picking up their equipment. This needs to stop as it directly violates are A.O. R.O.E.

 

[Grizzle.M]

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



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Element Callsign: AVIATION (both Rotary and Fixed Wing)
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Grizzle.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C (Buffalo-1)
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Villmarsson.L (Buffalo-2)
CPL. James (public)

Pros:

• Good missions and inserts
• Good communication between air-to-ground and air-to-air

Cons:

• Comms due to switching between different birds
• Low Alpha Co turn out

 

[Rodahl.S]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Blake.H
Corporal Kuusela.N
Corporal Shepard.S
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Shere.J
Private First Class Donovan.J
Private First Class Pierce.JA

Public players within the element:
FullSaltyDoge

Pros:

• Expedient readiness from the platoon.
• Fantastic movement for most parts of the OP.
• Great succession of command when necessary.
• Squad level actions on contact were active and carried initiative.
• Raids are cool
  • I think we could have been quicker to get off the X.
• Fog and night time made the OP very immersive.

Cons:

• Awkward infill.
  • Helocast was briefed, but ended up being a regular touchdown
• The platoon left our squad behind on the jungle manoeuvres.
  • Jungle warfare is not trained on a regular basis. Maybe it should be? Maybe just from a platoon perspective?
  • Most platoon leaders know how to do it but the squads needs to react to the contacts given, instead of continuing on planned route.
• The squad felt misplaced on our security location t the first objective, though, tactically, I think it was the only spot left where our squad would be useful.
  • Would have been nice to see a patrol or two heading our way.
• Manoeuvres in between the AOIs were FRAGO'ed but the squads had different ideas on the movement. Waypoints might be needed.
• Unfortunate landing on actionable objective. Not really anyone's fault.

There are mixed feelings about extending the time of the operation. Some people like it, some people don't.

This may look like the pros and cons are even, but the cons are nit-picky and the pros massively outweighs them.

 

[Hamm.C]

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

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Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C "Hooker"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• Great mission and great leadership.
• Great comms and coordination with MISFIT-5 Westcott.R as always. 10/10 job.

Cons:

• GRIZZLY-1 Crash. Very weird and unfortunate, but not shocking. Perfect approach, landing right on target and then boom. See my video I posted. The only thing we can figure is that this was a ramp issue. Very, very important that nobody but the aircraft crew touch the ramp controls, hoist controls, and fast rope controls, at any time unless otherwise instructed to by the aircrew.
  • And btw- no matter how much better the new Grizzly is compared to the old one (which it is much better), it is still somewhat problematic and it still kinda sucks IMO. So we should always primarily (if not only) use it for a) Huge instractions, b) Huge extractions and c) Sling loading/heavy transport. Outside of those specific missions, strongly recommend we avoid it.
• Slight issue with comms.
• Low Alpha Co. turnout.

 

[Gibbs.K]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Private First Class Gibbs.K

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Narramoor.A
First Sergeant.Jupiter.J
Corporal Kent.R
Specialist Apollo.R
Private Torres.K

RET Personnel:
RET.Houston.T
RET.York.A
RET Saint.Z



Pros:

• Good Squad Movement
• Good Hasty Raid on OBJ 1
• Helocast insert went well, no injuries reported
• Found and captured x2 VIPs at OBJ 2

Cons:

• VIPS at OBJ 2 got caught in crossfire
• Crossing into a HW team firing line in an open field
• Radio issues
• Planted demo in a building being used as a CCP

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

Assigned Lawrence.M for processing.

 

[Lawrence.M]

S1 Operation Processed