AAR ARMA 3 | Operation Hedge Hopper | Bravo Troop FTX

[Burton.P]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Hedge Hopper (B-troop FTX)
Campaign of Combat Mission:
Number Within Campaign:
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: Training Server 3
Date of Combat Mission: 25JUL21
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 1900Z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Moraru.R
Mission Controller: First Lieutenant Moraru.R
Number of Attendees: 42

Attendees:
Colonel Tharen.R
Captain Storm.A
First Lieutenant Moraru.R
Second Lieutenant Mazinski.H
First Sergeant Burton.P
Sergeant Kastor.K
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Staff Sergeant Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Zubrican.F
Staff Sergeant Lamb.J
Sergeant Knights.Z
Sergeant Connelly.M
Corporal Anderson.J
Corporal Blackburn.A
Corporal Bane.K
Corporal Barone.E
Corporal Boyd.M
Corporal Collins.J
Corporal Davidson.J
Corporal Fox.S
Corporal Gibbs.K
Corporal Kamenar.M
Corporal Kling.I
Corporal Lucander.P
Corporal Maco.D
Corporal Rook.J
Corporal Rozhkov.P
Corporal Saint.D
Corporal Cazarotti.V
Specialist Bishop.C
Specialist Hans.D
Specialist Krawczyk.W
Specialist Rodahl.S
Specialist Sullivan.A
Specialist Whitfield.L
Specialist Whitehead.B
Private First Class Field.Q
Private First Class Encino.T
Private Britin.H
Private Braxton.J
Private First Class Hetzel.J
Recruit Zander.D


Pros:

Cons:

 

[Gann.T]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Corporal Gann.T

Personnel Within Element:
Colonel Tharen.R
Corporal Barone.E
Corporal Fox.S
Specialist Hans.D
Specialist Hunter.A
Specialist Rodahl.S
Private First Class Encino.T

Pros:

• Good squad work
• Vehicle did very well
• Good communications between squads
• Mortars were on point

Cons:

• Loadout issues
• Movement overall seemed very confusing
• Map very cluttered
• Brevity on radio can be worked on

 

[Maco.D]

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

Element Callsign: Atlas 2
Element Leader: Corporal Dan Maco

Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Alexander Blackburn
Corporal Pavel Rozhkov
Corporal Vitor Cazarotti

Pros:
Full show from Billet Atlas
Medical work was on point when called on
Both teams were quick to get loadouts sorted

Cons:
Op to large scale for the amount of time and amount of people.
Platoon Medic was kept with medic instead of the normal being with the platoon to help small medical calls.
Atlas was not allowed to be independent and was kept with Atlas 1 and platoon medic at a single place.
Atlas 1 team lead was pulled to assist platoon and rest of atlas 1 was sent back to Atlas 2 without a team lead.
Medical calls from Platoon Medic were vague would like to see more info being sent across the Comms net.
Atlas teams still need to do a 360/180 security when in a single position for a long period of time.
Platoon medic is our dispatch and adjustment of movement orders but atlas needs to be able to freely move about the field.

 

[Geki.T]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER-ACTION REPORT
Element Callsign: Viking-6
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Geki.T​

Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant First Class Geki.T
Staff Sergeant Abate.L

Pros:

• Excellent work from the squads
• Great initiative from Saber
• Good massing of fires for initial contact from mortars
• Squads did an excellent job task switching and task stacking in order to accomplish a complicated MOUT clearance.
• PSG did a great job of ensuring sustainment across the platoon

Cons:

• PCI's need to be addressed. Regardless on if loadouts are there or not, primary equipment must be established within the vehicle, namely being drones and Javelins
• Poor problem solving on my end when orders from Warhorse conflicted with own intent. Should have consulted for support instead of fighting the intent.
• Need to work on newly implemented CFF technique to ensure FO's are calling appropriately using the new method.
• Confusion from the medics, information possibly not getting passed down correctly. Medics seemed confused as to why they were boarding a squad's stryker to handle casualty care even though that was in the call to -7, and is becoming a pretty common SOP within the platoon.

 

[Zubrican.F]

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

Element Callsign: Saber-4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Zubrican.F

Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Zubrican.F
Specialist Whitfield.L
Private First Class Hetzel.J


Pros:

• Accurate & quick radio reports from all SABERs
• Infantry seemed to perform well

Cons:

• Constantly sitting on the hill not doing what we trained a week before just for the FTX
• Reports of Sabre crews getting extremely bored

 

[Lamb.J]

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

Element Callsign: SABER-3
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Lamb.J

Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Anderson.J
Corporal Kling.I
Corporal Gibbs.K

Pros:
-Good action and conduct by both Units
-Action was sporadic and sudden, making for dynamic fighting
-Pacing was excellent and rapid. With pauses to allow for recovery.
-Defenses set up provided resistance which required adaptive thinking

Cons:
-Issues with Bradley Repairs
-Communication on movement was poor and lack of communication with wings caused issues
-The fact that MOUT concepts were not applied to the FTX left troopers feeling frustrated that this month was wasted on a topic we never even applied
-Enemy vehicles didn't show up on thermals when stationary
-Bradley was left with minimal engagements once the defensive perimeter was breeched and coordination with infantry was nonexistent
-Night fighting was difficult and led to many casualties

 

[Geki.T]

Connelly.M Knights.Z need AARs in by EOD.

 

[Connelly.M]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-2
Element Leader: Sergeant Connelly.M

Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Connelly.M
Corporal Kamenar.M
Corporal Collins.J
Corporal Keenan.J
Corporal Wittman.M
Corporal Saint.D
Specialist Ashford.H
Specialist Bishop.C
Recruit Zander.D


Pro's:
Good squad movement during unban operations and around the stryker
Good squad directives for defensive positioning
Good internal communication within squad
Good adaptability to kit loadouts and collectively to scrounge equipment that was missing or needed
Good adaptability to using what we had to work with in the field





Con's:
Vehicle perm's form driver slot to fix
Technical issues that had a trickle down effect on PCI'S and mission critical equipment
Slow to start due to the fore mentioned reason
Poor coordination overall which effected down to squad level at times
Vehicle safety bunching up in open terrain potential loss of force magnifier

 

[Knights.Z]

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

Element Callsign: Viking-4
Element Leader: Sergeant Knights.Z

Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Lucander.P
Specialist Sullivan.A
Private First Class Muska.B
Specialist Whitehead.B

V4 conducted multiple mortar strikes against hostile vehicles & infantry. Further, we then assisted the platoon in clearing the first town before establishing an IDF defence against counterattacking forces. V4 was successful in it's IDF attacks, and effective.


Pros:

• Very good work from the team
• Rapid response from calls for fire
• Very high gunner accuracy
• Good spotting from security elements

Cons:

• Major issues with supply at mission start
• Major server issues
• Scope of the mission was too large, causing us to Endex halfway through

 

[Kinser.E]

LOCKED.

 

[Kinser.E]

Processed S1/Operations updated.