AAR Operation Extraction 08FEB25

[Mueller.H]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Operation Extraction
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 08FEB25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2000Z​

Mission OIC: Sergeant First Class Mueller.H
Mission Controller: Sergeant First Class Mueller.H
Number of Attendees: 42
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Lieutenant Colonel Strider.R
First Sergeant Sven.S
First Lieutenant Rhodes.R
Second Lieutenant Hazen.D
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Second Lieutenant Swanson.B
Master Sergeant Mueller.H
Staff Sergeant Silvis.B
Sergeant Laui.M
Sergeant Noriega.D
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Owens.J
Corporal Slagg.J
Corporal Willis.B
Corporal Wagner.D
Specialist Angels.N
Specialist Fields.M
Specialist Groves.T
Specialist Hansel.R
Specialist Heinz.B
Specialist Henson.K
Specialist Jay.JH
Specialist Leaf.J
Specialist Lewis.P
Specialist Mason.P
Specialist Mess.L
Specialist Moff.N
Specialist Mogensen.J
Specialist Nutting.J
Specialist Paulls.G
Specialist Plummer.M
Specialist Pollock.R
Specialist Rich.M
Specialist Richman.A
Specialist Rowe.C
Private First Class Flick.J
Private First Class Tawfik.Y
Private Dennis.V
Private Hopper.J
Private John.C
Private Milkovic.D
Private Mcclellan.Jay

 

[Mueller.H]

Element Callsign:
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Mueller.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant First Class Mueller.H

Pros:

Cons:

Video: not really entertaining. but it shows the strategic differences.

 

[Hazen.D]

Element Callsign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Hazen.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Hazen.D

Pros:
-Great communication
-Truck drivers assigned
-Everyone knew their job
-Great southern skirmish line

Cons:
-Wish we had more people.

 

[Jinto.H]

Element Callsign: 4
Element Leader: Corporal Jinto.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private John.C
Specialist Hansel.R
Specialist Mason.P
Specialist Pollock.R
Pros: fun gun fight's, good squad coms.
Cons: operations felt overly complected causing confusion.

 

[Fields.M]

Element Callsign: Allied Squad Lead
Element Leader: SPC.Fields.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Groves.T (?) and CPL.Owens.J
Pros:
VERY fun once we caught on
Well thought out
Lot of good infantry fighting

Cons:
Confusing at beginning
A LOT of area to cover
Lots of echoes in leadership chat

 

[Jay.JH]

Element Callsign: George (Axis) FTL
Element Leader: Specialists Jay.JH
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Nutting.J

Pros:
Very fun concept and operation
Incredible communication between the team, including calling out trucks, infantry, airdrops/airheads, garrys, etc
Nutting had a great time (one of his most enjoyed OPs) - playing a key role during the entire game

Cons:
No real cons to the OP as thoroughly enjoyed and would 100% attend again with minimal changes
To note, the OPORD seemed confusing, but I believe Sergeant First Class Mueller.H did a great job with the explanation so not a real con from me

 

[Strider.R]

Element Callsign: Allied Echo Squad
Element Leader: Lieutenant Colonel Strider.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Angels.N
Private First Class Tawfik.Y

Pros:

• Squad got the initial 3 trucks across the finish line for our team!
• Match was very fluid, with the lower numbers it did not feel like a slog but was evenly balanced.

Cons:

• Attendance needs to be majority finalized before the OP starts, coming in and still questioning where I was going to, ALONG with multiple duplicates. Getting into initial squads was confusing as leaderships/squad leaders didn't know who was going where.
• I would try to increase setup period and during the setup period have trucks be allowed to go straight to their drop off instead of going around.
• Needed more focus on trucks, which was hard to do with so few numbers. But if have to many in the match, then no trucks get through at all, its kind of a weird balance that you have to keep

 

[Rhodes.R]

Element Callsign: Charlie Squad (Axis)
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Rhodes.R
Private Milkovic.D
Specialist Mogensen.J
Specialist Jay.JH (FTL)
Specialist Nutting.J
Specialist Pollock.R
Specialist Rowe.S (FTL)
Recruit Jay


Solids

• Great comms with other squads.
• Broke up the Jaegers into smaller squads to 7-man and we dominated with our AT-advantage.
• Excellent FTLs (Rowe and Jay) made it all possible.
• Great AT action from Mogensen.
• Great Support action from Milkovic.
• Strongpoint capture teams rocked it during the 2nd half of the match, allowing us to expand our reach.
• Won 8 to 6.
• Great Jaeger drivers like Heinz and Paulls (and also Hazen!) brought home the bacon while driving trucks.

Improvements

• OPORD language was very technical, could have been simplified.
• Match encourages the usage of one/two squads staying on vanilla-ish gameplay for most the match, could use reworks so everyone can participate. Two ideas: 45 minute matches, one on each side; or removing the strongpoint fight, and expanding the AO of the truck gameplay (depending on #s)

 

[Swanson.B]

Element Callsign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Swanson.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
None

Pros:
Match plan was followed. Match start wasn't perfect but we did start on time and captured the point first.
Great offensive force, gun fight were won. We got to capture the two other points very quickly.
Capturing the points allowed us to drop an airhead close to the trucks and extract 3 of them.
Very fun concept, wouldn't change anything.

Cons:
Lacked defense on drive zone. I only assigned 2 squads of 2 troopers. Should have assigned more.
I didn't drive enough truck to the enemy HQ.
It was very hard to plan ahead of the operation since i didn't have everybody placed and i only had 2 assigned SL for 6 squads up. I am used to use the palcements of the attendance, I was told we could move people around the way we wanted at the last minutes but i used the lines up that was on the sheet.

 

[Noriega.D]

Element Callsign: Axis Alpha squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Noriega.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Mess.L
Private First Class Flick.J
?

Pros: A lot of fun. squad enjoyed the idea and execution

Cons: None

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Houser.J]

S1 Operations Processed