Sunday Event AAR
15 1700 EST Mar 2009
~35 people
Leadership
PL (HQ Element) – Grambo
A (Inf Squad)- Jeepo
B (Inf Squad)- Tripper
C (Inf Squad)- Beta
D (AT Attachment)- Lowspeedhighdrag
E (MG Attachment)- Socomseal
Mission: WAC_co_39_light_inf_09_v103
Island: Ace Sara
Description: Blufor Inf Attack 1 hr
I was 2IC of Bravo Squad
What was supposed to happen:
Grambo began planning and then briefing people
• Overview of plan
• • His intent was to secure the hill “Monte Yorito” north of the town of Somato first
• He wanted A, D, and E to establish a support-by-fire position oriented to the Southwest to Southeast to provide cover for the assault element
• The assault element, B and C, were to move to the town of Pesto via vehicle and dismount there
• On foot, they were to follow “route red” and move to a hill “205” overlooking the town of Somato from the East
• • The HQ element would establish a CP at the town of Yoro
• • The plan was for the support element to begin engaging the town with fires once the assault element had reached hill 205
• Next, the assault element would assault towards the town of Somato from the East and begin clearing the town from East to West once they had reached it
• Once the town was cleared, the assault element would setup a defensive line in the town and prepare for a possible armor/mechanized counterattack
• The support element would remain in their support-by-fire position and provide fires to the defense
• • The medics were to attach themselves to squads and follow along
o Skychief – Goes with alpha
o Ironpants – Goes with Charlie or Bravo
• The transportation issues were to be resolved ingame
What actually happened:
• Began mission
• Began mounting up trucks-there was some confusion on who goes where, took awhile to get it all sorted out
• There was a negligent discharge at the camp
• • • Finally got the green light to begin movement to town of Pesto
• Charlie was following us
• • Arrived at the town of Pesto with no problems
• • Dismounted the trucks and began to get ready to move
• • • Began moving out in a column
o Order of movement – Charlie, followed by bravo
• • Some movement problems, the column became separated and I went to grab the separated personnel
• • Linked up with squad and order of movement was reestablished
• Support element was being engaged at this time
o Alpha reported taking fire
o Delta had some KIAs
• Began climbing hill 205 to get into position
• • Got on the hill and oriented to the West and North
• • Reports of a bmd and armor on the road to the North of us
• BMD attacked and overran cmd post at yoro and with INF support began encircling the support element
• • Delta reports all personnel are KIA
• B/C (assault) began taking fire on the hill
• • • • Realized that we are surrounded and in danger of being overrun
• • BRDM begins to assault up the hill
• Someone disables it and I kill one of the crew
• • • At this point, the assault element had multiple KIAs and WIAs
• We begin bounding off the hill to the South
o Note: you can see a UAZ on fire we destroyed and a BRDM with the two dead crew
• • The people who had died from the support element were respawned and moving back the “truck stop” drop-off point
• I sprinted south and got ahead of the element who was taking fire from the hilltop where we had just come off from
• I stopped to provide covering fire
• • We continued to move back
• • I was wounded twice, shot once, revived, shot again, but did not black out
• Finally, I died trying to drag a wounded man (Felix) back to a safe area
• Some of our squad survived
o Rampart, who took charge of survivors, and 2 other members
• The respawned began moving back to the fight
• • • Was confused about the orders the PL was giving, but finally we realized that he wanted the support element to retake the SBF position and the assault to linkup at Pesto
• • Bravo squad linked up with its survivors and moved back to Pesto
• Assault element (B and C) linked up at Pesto and established a defensive postion
• • We ended up holding Pesto for roughly 5 minutes waiting on orders
• We finally got a medic to attach to us, we did not have one until this point
• Ordered to retake hill 205 and prepare to assault town
• • Retook the hill
• Spotted an enemy encampment at the Western portion of town
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• Began assaulting down the hill towards the town
• • Alpha joined us to assault the town from the northern portion
• • Assaulted through the town
• • Took the encampment
• • Ordered to check the town of Gulan, South of Somato
• No contact made
• The PL sent the report
• Victory
Key Issues –
• Sustains
1. Individual initiative was excellent, often people oriented themselves to cover approaches, correctly spaced themselves out, threw smoke, treated wounded, and engaged if necessary. The guys with me were efficient and effective grunts
2. The concept of the operation was okay, the plan (what was supposed to happen) made tactical sense, good job PL.
3. The squad leadership, at least in my squad, was exceptional. A few instances, the SLs really stepped up and made a decision on what to do, for example, leaving hill 205 when it was being overrun
4. The commo was satisfactorily. No one really clogged the side channel and only the leaders talked on Teamspeak
5. Markers on map were adequate for the most part
• Improves
1. PL – Need to improve on decision-making and communicating the decisions. Often there were periods of long downtime where nothing was going on and the leaders did not know what was going on (I know you were thrown in after the planned PL had to bail, so good job on stepping up and leading)
2. The reconsolidations after contact were confusing and took a long time
3. It appeared that the leaders did not know the situation from time-to-time. Squad leaders, you MUST keep the PL informed of your squad’s status
4. Leaders need to communicate what is happening to the rest of the squad
5. Getting back into the fight after you died, I think in that map, you can setup a respawn point closer to the front, but I may be wrong
6. We needed a first sergeant (2IC of HQ element) to help the PL in leading the HQ element and making sure the medics were doing their jobs, not sure if we had one
Closing Comments
Overall, in my opinion, the event went well. I had fun and I hope everyone else did too.
Thanks for the event
TG!
-IGOR
