AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Sun Belt

[Beiter.A]

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

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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Sun Belt
Campaign of Combat Mission (If applicable): N/A
Number within campaign: N/A
Game: Arma 3
Server Hosted on: TacR
Date of Combat Mission: 05OCT24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Lewis.A
Mission Controller: Major Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action: 41
Major General Tharen.R
Command Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Major Bunnell.M
Major Beiter.A
Major Ronen.R
First Sergeant Couvillion.T
First Lieutenant Lewis.A
Second Lieutenant Hilberg.A
Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Sergeant Blake.H
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Hoidahl.N
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Sergeant Turner.L
Sergeant Zaren.T
Sergeant Fox.Z
Corporal Albright.J
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Fox.R
Corporal Houston.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Kuusela.N
Corporal McAllen.J
Corporal Rutkowski.P
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Bonnet.J
Specialist Bryan.R
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Gibbs.K
Specialist Gilman.A
Specialist Lee.H
Specialist MacTavish.J
Specialist Perea.A
Specialist Rok.M
Specialist DeVoir.W
Private First Class McLeod.B
Private Shakeshaft.S
RET CPL.Saint.Z

 

[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 Bunnel.M
Sergeant Holiday.T
Specialist Bryan.R


Pros:

• When we did have casualties we treated them quickly and efficiently
• Our reaction to IDF was great during the assault of KT-2
• We got to shoot our guns sometimes

Cons:

• The comms between myself and -7 were very poor tonight
• No medevac requests whatsoever
• Mass cas was called incorrectly on -4 at one time and they were all yellow tags
• Jump brief felt sloppy and the drop itself went poorly

Notes: Overall from my teams perspective, they didn't enjoy the Op tonight and had rarely any good moments. The main reason was I could give no direction to my team with a lack of communication from the PM, and the plan seemed to fall apart in the mid to latter half of the Op.

 

[Gibbs.K]

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: Specialist Gibbs.K

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:




Pros:

• Plenty of medical calls
• Had fun
• CSAR mission for Buffalo-1
• Good calls for Medical from Platoon

Cons:

• Radio Comms

 

[DeVoir.W]

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

Element Callsign: Lighning-1
Element Leader: Specialist DeVoir.W

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist DeVoir.W

Pros:

• As always, top-notch communication with CHAOS (Corporal Kastor.K), who also took the time to assist me on my first CAS op with the Cav!
• The mission seemed well balanced from ground and air. Very cool moment saving HOG-1 and CHAOS from a Mig
• Godfather did a great job keeping up with my newness and tendence to need new aircraft
• Feedback after op was very helpful

Cons:

• I had a difficult time tracking each group of allies some were very spread out
• There were a few instances where a GBU-53 hit a vehicle and seemed to do minimal to no damage.

 

[Rok.M]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Specialist Rok.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Borenstein.B
Specialist Lee.H
Corporal Rutkowski.P
Private Shakeshaft.S
Sergeant Davis.D

Sergeant Turner.L
Specialist Gilman.A
Corporal Bethea.A
First Sergeant Couvillion.T


Pros:

• Good Compress/Decompression based on react to contact and terrain
• Engaging and Fun mission, great seeing buildings filled with contacts
• Buddy aiding worked perfectly leading to no long uncon for 2-bravo
• 1 remaining member of 2-alpha tried to save 3 red members
• Good coms discipline
• WILD and SPICY MISSION
  

Cons:

• Holding orders at ill sighted positions during IDF contact
• POW react of command based on ROE
• Few minor mistakes during CQC but overall great discipline and conduct of basic drills and excellent execution. Great result from SP training
  Atlas operating in the open
  

 

[Blake.H]

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: Sergeant Blake.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Fox.Z
Sergeant Hoidahl.N
Sergeant Zaren.T
Corporal Houston.T
Corporal Kuusela.N
Specialist MacTavish.J
Specialist Perea.A

Retired:
RET.Saint.Z

Pros:

• Brutal but a very enjoyable mission
• Good Fireteam and buddy team movements with good MOUT.
• Quick PCC/PCI conducted by Team Leaders
• CLS had fast triage of wounded enabling us to maintain better combat effectiveness.
• Overall good jump, and managed to count to 9
• Really good coms with Misfit-2 enabling us to be flexible and bound while covered

Cons:

• Lack of professionalism on verbal communications in the bird and also when on/between objectives.
• Mission was a little ambitious in scope of distances to travel by foot in a limited time.
• One fireteam was sniped by an AA gun while building clearing, with hostile AI inside (Arma moment)
• ATLAS ignored a casualty handoff at a MASCAS and jumped on expectant casualties instead of the critical ones who were savable.
• Friendlies jumped on an OPFOR static weapon
• General noise discipline was poor on moment from the DZ to the DZRP and when moving to ORP1.

 

[Rodahl.S]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Misfit-4
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Rodahl.S

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major General Tharen.R
Command Sergeant Major Nexhex.A
Major Ronen.R
Sergeant Lucander.P
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Bonnet.J

Pros:

• Troopers had a good time.
• Great comms
  • Both Platoon and Squad nets.
• Excellent adaptation to situations as they developed.
• Loved the patrol during CSAR from Zeus.

Cons:

• Not much professionalism displayed on the insert flight.
  • Troopers were not listening to leadership and were causing problems with communication between jumpmaster and the pilot.
• Spacing with the platoon was either too close or too far away.
  • Too close during manoeuvre, too far during SBF.
• Ordered to break contact away from the intent established.
• Missed a casualty status update due to platoon net traffic.
  • Later rectified.
• Building from which we were to conduct SBF were not cleared.
• Tasked as an understrength weapons squad to conduct CSAR outside of mutual support
  • Lead to more casualties and tying up of Misfit 7 for the last half hour of the Operation.

 

[Lewis.A]

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

Pros:

• Great leadership. SLs communicated and coordinated well with one another and the platoon. SLs actively sought clarity of intent.
• Excellent CAS coordination, thanks to Chaos.
• The platoon was flexible and adaptive.

Cons:

• Got black-tagged and wounded again by Red Air.
• Unclear from OPORD on how to handle POWs.
• Numerous objectives and limited time prevented the platoon from conducting structured long halts for consolidation and resupply.
• Continued to observe Troopers failing to use basic infantry skills like taking cover and using concealment.

 

[Dixon.E]

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 Dixon.E

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Corporal Albright.J
Specialist Winters.R
Private First Class McLeod.B

Pros:

• Good amount of medical work
• Overall good operation and we had a good time

Cons:

• Lack of direction/calls from 7 at times
• Slow medical calls from other squads, by the time we arrived they were usually beyond saving.
• Too long distances to walk at times

 

[Kastor.K]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: CHAOS
Element Leader: Corporal Kastor.K


Pros:

• Excellent show from both Fox.R (HOG) and DeVoir.W (LIGHTNING), great comms and effects on target. As SPC.DeVoir's first Op outing, job well done!
• Large and constant target saturation, was able to literally constantly task both airframes with CAS calls, without diminishing enjoyment of the infantry - but also able to relieve them from being pressed by larger or armoured enemy forces
• The enemy attempted scrambling several MIG-15 airframes, which turned into a cinematic scene of one strafing us on to of an AOI-1 bunker, -6 going down to autocannon fire, calls of "He's coming around for another pass, get off the roof!" and then SPC DeVoir's call of "Splash one." Great save!

Cons:

• High airframe loss on LIGHTNING. New pilot though, first time juggling flight, comms, notepad for CAS calls and threats in the AO during an actual Op, which led to a few F35 shaped and priced craters
• About 30-40 CAS calls done at least, I've started becoming really low energy on comms towards the end.
• First jump pass missed by pilot left of lane. Second pass just in/out of the chute.
• Jumpmaster going way too slow on jump count for the first half, speeding up to squeeze us out by end of lane. Last few numbers (34-38) essentially jumped together.
• As #35 I've barely avoided mid-air collision and tangling with #36 Lewis.A. I've landed and the first thing I saw was #34 Tharen.R 's heavy ass who unfortunately landed directly on me, 100% didn't even get to see me - and unfortunately killed me in result (died in buddy care, awaiting Atlas)

 

[Fox.R]

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

Element Callsign: Hog-1
Element Leader: Corporal Fox.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
none

Pros:

• Exceptional performance by DeVoir.W as Lightning-1. Despite this being his first operation, he managed the aircraft, ISR tasks, attacks, and all communications with a high degree of competence.
• As ever, outstanding communication with Chaos (Kastor.K).
• The mission had a good flow and kept both air elements actively engaged. There were no idle periods but we also never got unduly overwhelmed.
• Responsive and very helpful Zeus.
• Quite a few dramatic moments, such as when Hog was being chased by an enemy Mig and just taking off from base, scrambled to save the day.

Cons:

• Slight radio issues at the beginning of the op, which Zeus and Chaos tried hard to resolve, but which ultimately required a restart.
• Indestructible and therefore somewhat unrealistic hangars housing enemy aircraft, which required dropping ordnance from a very unusual angle.

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

Assigned Hood.D for processing.

 

[Hood.D]

S1 Operations processed.