AAR ARMA 3 | BTN FTX | Operation Conquest TvT

[Beiter.A]

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

Name of Combat Mission: BTN FTX Operation Conquest
Number Within Campaign: N/A
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 08DEC2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000z
Mission OIC: Sergeant First Class Geki.T / Second Lieutenant Hilberg.A
Mission Controller: Major Beiter.A



Attendees: 47
Major Beiter.A
Captain Narramoor.A
First Lieutenant Rodahl.S
Second Lieutenant Hilberg.A
Second Lieutenant Maco.D
Second Lieutenant Sutodoreh.W
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Villmarsson.L
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Spin.M
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Sergeant First Class Westcott.R
Sergeant Albright.J
Sergeant Blake.H
Sergeant Crowley.T
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Sergeant Taylor.C
Sergeant Turner.L
Sergeant Zaren.T
Corporal Black.A
Corporal Winters.R
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Burton.P
Corporal Fougere.J
Corporal Fox.R
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Peterson.L
Corporal Kuusela.N
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Searle.I
Corporal Singhal.P
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Apollo.R
Specialist Artale.A
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Constance.J
Specialist Facklam.E
Specialist Gibbs.K
Specialist Jackson.A
Specialist Marston.C
Specialist Ratliff.B
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Swan.J
Private First Class White.M
Private Yeo.N

 

[Spin.M]

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

Element Callsign: BISON-1 (OPFOR)
Element Leader: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Spin.M
Corporal Peterson.L

Pros:

• Flying a difficult airframe can be a fun challenge
• Great idea for a TVT op

Cons:

• Enemy fast movers always engaged at great distance, and the airframe we were given was not maneuverable at all to evade missiles.
• No crew at the beginning, got AI crew, they didn't do anything, then Peterson joined.
• Was not able to actually engage any targets due to enemy air.
• Was an airframe we never use and had no practice on it.
• Comms between ground got confusing due to all comms being on one net, and and friendlies not always providing their current locations as a reference.
• Firing one rocket kept firing the entire pod of rockets.

 

[Ratliff.B]

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

Element Callsign: Raptor-1
Element Leader: Specialist Ratliff.B

Pros:

• Good idea for an operation
• The infrastructure of the op seemed to work pretty well
• Infantry did extremely well on the ground

Cons:

• Flight suit didn't spawn on respawn, blacked out during combat
• Long respawn timer

 

[Maco.D]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: Gunslinger 7
Element Leader:Second Lieutenant Maco.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Winters.R

Pros:
Plenty of contact

Cons:
80's theme for new game types does not always work
Medical teams not needed with death rate
everyone needs radios to maintain accountability with the large death rate
Felt like a king of the hill just throwing bodies at redfor

 

[Holiday.T]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Artale.A


Pros:
Good team banter

Cons:
Lack of bodies
Members were seen wearing enemy uniforms
Complete lack of medical

 

[Hilberg.A]

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

Element Callsign: HITMAN-6 (OPFOR)
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Hilberg.A

Pros:

• The team did exceptionally well. Treated Point Bravo as the Operational Base.
• BLUFOR kept us on our toes, constantly pushing and pestering.
• Great initiative on the individual troopers and FTLs, pushing out and holding terrain, countering attacks, and retaking objectives.
• Managed to push through some challenges on equipment, but all supporting assets did an outstanding job. When they could fight and we needed them, they were force multipliers.
• 7th CAV rules and SOPs were followed to a T. Kudos to all troopers for doing it right in a newish environment.

Cons:

• Equipment issues back at spawn for aviation elements.
• Lack of turnout led MM to have to call a lot of audibles, increasing his workload and leading to long lead times on getting necessary equipment.

 

[Blake.H]

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

Element Callsign: HITMAN-7
Element Leader: Sergeant Blake.H

Pros:
Overall really enjoyable
Good small team tactics
Good conduct by members from what i observed

Cons:
Medical equipment was lacking
Radio's need to be available for FTL's at the very least it was too difficult it maintain organization
It was too difficult to locate ATLAS team effectively and have them in good positions due to lack of knowing where friendlies are

 

[Borenstein.B]

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

Element Callsign: HITMAN-1 (OPFOR)
Element Leader: Corporal Borenstein.B

HITMAN 1-A Corporal Burton.P
HITMAN 1-B Sergeant Turner.L

HITMAN 1 SQUAD MEMBERS
Specialist Apollo.R
Corporal Zander.D
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Fox.R
Captain Narramoor.A
Specialist Casey.W
Corporal Kuusela.N
Sergeant First Class Westcott.R
Sergeant Crowley.T


Pros:

• Tremendous Fun
• This concept is better for TvT than the paintball-esque tourneys of seasons past
• Great comms between myself and 1-A
• Great comms between myself, 6 and 7
• Great strategy of breakout of squad holding down the fort at PB (Point Bravo), fighting and holding PC, and taking, and retaking PD.
• Excellent force multiplier by air assets, when they were able to be on station thanks to comms between 6 and air.
• 7 was clutch at PB in many instances and got some great trigger time in
• Great visibility from PB to call out actions to squads between PC, PD, and PE
• SABRE unit did their thing independently and we couldn't have done it without them, especially around PA
• BLUFOR and OPFOR air really added to the overall atmosphere (no pun intended)

Cons:

• beating a dead horse with the kits (personally M60 ammo in kits and resupply vic but my ARs had MG3s)
• muh radios

 

[Albright.J]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-2
Element Leader: SGT.Albright.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PFC.Swan.J
PVT.Yeo.N


Pros:

• A lot of gunplay
• Nice change from the usual OPs

Cons:

• Lack of medical equiptment
• Overall very limited gear
• No personal radios
• Pretty much no medical, atlas's role felt redundant in this OP
• Very chaotic, element essentially split up after the first death