AAR [Arma 3][Special Event][S.O.G Prairie Fire] Campaign 17th Parallel - Operation Hue - 24JUL21 - 2200Z

[Coots.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Name of Combat Mission: Operation Hue
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign 17th Parallel
Number Within Campaign: 2
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 24JUL21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200Z
Mission OIC: Staff Sergeant Jupiter.J
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Coots.J
Number of Attendees:

Attendees:
Colonel Tharen.R
Major Lombardi.M
First Lieutenant Hobbs.T
First Sergeant Burton.P
Staff Sergeant Jupiter.J
Sergeant Saint.Z
Sergeant Kastor.K
Staff Sergeant Black.A
Corporal Sky.N
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
Sergeant Connelly.M
Sergeant Couvillion.T
Corporal Rook.J
Corporal Derry.B
Specialist Shughart.J
Private First Class Turner.L
Private First Class Encino.T
Corporal John.K
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal Liber.N
Corporal Morrow.J
Corporal Otel.J
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Whitehead.B
Specialist Mariani.S
Specialist Krawczyk.W
Specialist Whitfield.L
Staff Sergeant Citarelli.D
Corporal Borenstein.B
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Private First Class Field.Q
Specialist Field.J
Sergeant Guerra.J


Pros:

Cons:

 

[Tharen.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: Colonel Tharen.R

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Colonel Tharen.R
First Lieutenant Hobbs.T

Pros:

• So many casualties to heal, so plenty to do
• Troopers were fairly good using tourniquets and stabilizing before going to Atlas
• Overall, very fun mission!

Cons:

• Lots of troopers did not avoid overpressure from Sabre
• Lots of troopers when going to CCP and/or Atlas had to be directed to do security; lots of standing around in the open; troopers were bringing casualties and dropping them in the open, not always in cover

 

[Jupiter.J]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-6
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Jupiter.J

7th Cav Personnel Within Element: Staff Sergeant Black.A



Pros:

• Lots of Contact
• Lots of good initiative from SL's
• Excellent Individual Soldier Discipline and ability

Cons:

• Comms could have been much better
• Op ended a little un-organically

 

[Whitfield.L]

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

Element Callsign: SABRE-1
Element Leader: Specialist Lee Whitfield

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Kastor.K
Specialist Krawczyk.W
Specialist Whitfield.L

Pros:

• One of the Greatest Operations I've attended recently
• Crew Comms on point
• Solid MOUT work from everyone
• Low-Tech Old-Era Tank provided a good challenge
• Well-Planned Brief from Jupiter.J

Cons:

• No ATLAS Repair/Rearm, utilized GODFATHER for everything
• Overpressured a couple of Troopers
• 1st USMC M41 Bulldog blew up after 1 hit, 2nd Army M41 Bulldog survived multiple hits

 

[Burton.P]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit 7
Element Leader: First Sergeant Burton.P

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Burton.P

Pros:

• Many...many...many casualties. So many bandages. So many bags of blood. So much amazingness.
• Perfect response and attention from Atlas.
• Great working with Jupiter as 6.

Cons:

• Lots of troopers did not avoid overpressure from Sabre
• Lots of people not holding security at CCPs.

 

[Otel.J]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-5
Element Leader: Corporal Joshua Otel

7th Cav Personnel Within Element: Corporal Joshua Otel



Pros:

• Lots of Contact
• Lots of good initiative from SLs, and team leads stepping up and doing the right thing
• Impressive riflemen skill on display, good support from sabre

Cons:

• Comms broke down in case of element leads going down, having a good coc established could have fixed this even in the chaotic situations.
• Spent most of the time with the medics, but only due to being uncon.

 

[Sky.N]

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

Element Callsign: Misfit-1
Element Leader: Corporal Sky.N

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Lieutenant Colonel Rosefield.M
Sergeant Connelly.M
Sergeant Couvillion.T
Corporal Rook.J
Corporal Derry.B
Specialist Shughart.J
Private First Class Turner.L
Private First Class Encino.T




Pros:

• Great Movement to objectives
• Great room clearance and communication
• Great cooms with support and leadership

Cons:

• Loss/Change of equipment upon respawn
• A lot of waiting for other elements to get into position

 

[Saint.Z]

Element Callsign: Misfit-2
Element Leader: Major Lombardi.M

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Major Lombardi.M
Sergeant Saint.Z
Corporal John.K
Corporal Crapachi.M
Corporal Marcus.J
Corporal Liber.N
Corporal Morrow.J
Corporal Otel.J
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Armitage.T
Specialist Whitehead.B
Specialist Mariani.S

Attachment Element(Misfit-7 [Platoon RTO]):
Staff Sergeant Black.A

Pros:
-Really fun, intense, and crtical thinking required during some of the missions fire fights and how to defeat the enemy; great OP.
-Misfit 2, while lacking proper support during a few of the engagements, we were able to adapt and overcome using their equipment and wits
-Put fairly well practiced MOUT tactics to use


Cons:
-Heavy ammo usage for squad weapons, before even achieving objectives 2 and 3 we had used approximately 50% of our non 556 ammo and bandages
-We became bogged down at objectives 2 and 3 resulting in a massive casualty inducing engagement
-Misfit 2 and 3 had to fold into each other, there was not enough time at the start for us to figure out both the squads resulting in our tardiness to the kickoff as we had a piecemeal flow of troopers coming into the squad requiring roles to be set EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. SOMEONE. CAME. INTO. THE. SQUAD.
-We halted when we took contact while moving to obj 1 and dismounted which was against the standing order from platoon.
-Overall plan went sideways when a mass cas was called located 200 meters forward of the current phase line. This was the start of the reliance on our training en order to complete the objective instead of following the briefed execution

 

[Citarelli.D]

Element Callsign: Misfit-3
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Citarelli.D

7th Cav Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Borenstein.B
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Warrant Officer 1 Wulf.C
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
Private First Class Field.Q
Specialist Field.J
Sergeant Guerra.J



Pros:

• Everyone had fun.
• Great react to contact.
• The almost literal definition of violence of action.

Cons:

• Disorganization due to lack of radios and SL's own failures when leading in Vietnam,

 

[Kinser.E]

LOCKED.

 

[Kinser.E]

Processed S1/Operations updated.