AAR ARMA 3 | Campaign Iron Horse | Operation Terminus

[Rodahl.S]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Terminus
Number Within Campaign: 2/x
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 04JAN25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Davis.D
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Rodahl.S



Attendees (34):
Lieutenant Colonel Highman.J
Lieutenant Colonel Beiter.A
Second Lieutenant Hilberg.A
Second Lieutenant Davis.D
Second Lieutenant Sutodoreh.W
First Sergeant Couvillion.T
Staff Sergeant Bunnell.M
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Staff Sergeant Willson.JA
Sergeant Blake.H
Sergeant Fox.R
Sergeant Holiday.T
Sergeant Lucander.P
Sergeant Peterson.L
Sergeant Turner.L
Corporal Borenstein.B
Corporal Houston.T
Corporal Kastor.K
Corporal Kuusela.N
Corporal Smith.DM
Corporal Whitsel.M
Corporal Terp.J
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Mosley.M
Specialist Rossi.C
Specialist Saint.Z
Specialist Sorrow.R
Private First Class Harry.J
Private First Class Swan.J
Recruit Chadwick.D

 

[Holiday.T]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-3
Element Leader: SGT.Holiday.T

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Mazinski.H


Pros:
Great time doing demolitions work
Good amount of obstacle clearance
Was able to do some vehicle rearm


Cons:
Little slow at times but was expected with convoy ops
Not able to do as much rearm, repair as we wanted to

 

[Beiter.A]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-2
Element Leader: Major Beiter.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Highman.J
Staff Sergeant Fox.Z
Staff Sergeant Willson.JA
Staff Sergeant Crowley.T
Corporal Kuusela.N
Sergeant Turner.L
Corporal Houston.T
Corporal Smith.DM
Specialist Casey.W
Specialist Saint.Z

Pros:

• Everyone had a good time
• Excellent coms within the squad
• Good platoon coms
• No blue on blue!

Cons:

• Turnout was low again.
• Low amount of contact in the first part of the mission but got better overtime.
• The assault to the FOB felt like it was rushed and properly unplanned, but we made it work.

 

[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 SASSY-7
Element Leader: Sergeant Blake.H

PROS:

• Good operation
• Good/clear coms from ATLAS-1
• No blue-on-blue
• Hardly any casualties
• Good medical turnout

Cons:

• Squads out of mutual support on first OBJ
• ATLAS-3 went black tag from RPG fire
• Pretty chaotic over PLT net at times
• Ideally -5 should be managing ATLAS-3
• not enough snacks
• I gave a really wrong grid, though it was caught at readback

 

[Fox.R]

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

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

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
none

Pros:

• As always, outstanding communication with Chaos (Kastor.K) and Sparrow.
• It helped that this time I was in the same vehicle as Chaos.
• The beginning and end of the operation were fun.

Cons:

• The middle phase was somewhat uneventful.
• The inability to resupply turned Reaper into an entirely passive role. With Sparrow also handling most of the ISR, there generally wasn't much to do.
• We could have introduced additional tasks to make it more engaging, such as lasing targets for rotary.
• Enemy units spawned a bit too close, as if conjured out of thin air, which made scanning the wider area as Reaper pointless.

 

[Swan.J]

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

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: PFC SWAN.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Bunnell.M
Recruit Chadwick.D
Private Harry.J

PROS:

• Good Medical work from New Medics
• (individual) Got to Experience Leadership as TL and 7.
• No Friendly Fire
• Team Had Fun
• Good comms with 7

Cons:

• Not as many causality taskings as expected
• Organization and movement was a bit Chaotic
• On Scene Blacktags from RPG fire
• unsecured areas/sectors leading to ATLAS being Ambushed

 

[Peterson.L]

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

Element Callsign: Sparrow-1
Element Leader: Sergeant Peterson.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Sutodoreh.W

Pros:

• Great communications between all aircrews(Raven and Reaper) along with Chaos
• Buddy lasing targets with Raven
• Steady pace of targets and tasking for Sparrow as we were only CAS after Reapers initial strike
• First half of operation was well paced
• 2 Aerial kills

Cons:

• Not much tasking/slow pace in the middle of the two objectives up until last 15 minutes.
• Comms issue at beginning of operation as could not hear or get in contact with Chaos Element
• Weapon loadout option for little bird is limited

 

[Borenstein.B]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-4
Element Leader: Corporal Borenstein.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sparrow.P
Specialist Sorrow.R
First Sergeant Couvillion.T
Specialist Pollock.R
Corporal Whitsel.M
Sergeant Lucander.P

Pros:

• Everyone had a good time
• Good squad comms
• Great platoon level comms
• smoove
• smoove movement between harbor and FOB

Cons:

• Turnout was low again.
• Took awhile to get started
• slow/lack of contact
• lack of basics/accountability especially within movement (bounding vs running and gunning); could have exercised more caution
• technical issues on the mission making side (HESCOs not anchored led to us getting fireteam wiped across the bridge by AI)
• SBF position was rubbish.
• Getting friendly Fragged
• Sierra lone wolfing at times.

 

[Terp.J]

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

Element Callsign: Raven-1
Element Leader: Corporal Terp.J

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Rossi.C

Pros:

• Had fun
• got to use the laser to lase for sparrow-1
• got to do some pac inserts

Cons:
- had coms issues where raven-1 dident have proper Communications whit ground element and was flying blind when it comes to inserts of troops and getting LZ

 

[Davis.D]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-6
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Davis.D

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
N/A

Pros:

• Had a great time
• Excellent coms with Viking 5 and succession of command
• Good platoon coms
• No blue on blue!

Cons:

• Turnout was low again.
• Low amount of contact in the first part of the mission but got better overtime.
• The assault on the FOB was rushed due to having to "soft clear" a massive city to make secondary OBJ

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Xinos.T]

S1 Operations Processed