1/A-CO, 1-2IN - Alpha Company, First Platoon

After action report

Objectives:

Defense of the embassy in Marwey, counter attack surrounding villages.

Accidents:

1x stryker HMG destroyed WIA: SGT D.Shade SFC C.Brock OCS J.Drake KIA: CPL A.Pendergast

Areas of Strength:

360 Security - no enemy forces ever came close to the objective. Suppressive fire - successfully managed to keep the enemy suppressed and gain fire superiority. AT capabilities - despite not having CAS available, Widowmakers used all their available AT and M2 guns to disable enemy armor, IFVs and APCs. Leadership delegation/succession - SLs were able to make their own plans and execute them with relative success, when SLs went down, leadership was passed down the chain of command in most occasions.

Areas of Weakness:

BD-6 break contact - when casualties started piling up and leadership was ordering troops to pull back a lot of chaos ensued and a handful of soldiers took way too long to embark their vehicles Spacing - keep intervals of 20m in contact to avoid mass cas

Suggested Improvements:

Widowmakers would enjoy additional support assets such as UAVs/Apache and use 3CAB for re-inserts. Due to low 3CAB attendance action had to be taken and the mobile respawn was established. Mobile respawn needs some way to retrieve loadouts.

Overall Outcome:

Positive

Summary:

At the start of mission Anchored Aegis Widowmakers were air lifted to LZ Blueberry where their strykers and the mobile respawn were staged already. Widowmakers had a small convoy route to reach Marwey to the North. Widowmakers linked up with a local US commander as well as the local militia to discuss the defense of the town. Roads were blocked off and shooting positions were prebuilt for Widowmaker squads to occupy. Squads were all given their individual sectors and before they even got to their locations the gunfire started.

Widowmaker squads fought off multiple assaulting foot infantry, motorized vehicles such as land rovers, Nissan trucks with mounted weapons, BTRs, BMPs and even the odd T-34. Widowmaker Fox was able to identify an enemy mortar pit and tasked Spartans with a fire mission to disable the enemy mortars. Fox also identified an enemy Igla launcher but no mortars could be directed on that since it was on top of a building.

Widowmakers made disabling that AA piece a priority to perhaps regain CAS support. They were ordered to counter attack the town of Karaye, Scorpions and Phoenix were left to defend Marwey while Ghosts and Spartans assaulted Karaye. The assault went relatively smooth with minimal casualties and a fairly low enemy presence.

Once Spartans and Ghosts returned to Marwey, Phoenix and Ghosts started their assault on Malari. Since the attacks seized and the embassy still had a few guards, Spartans and Ghosts also made their way to Malari, primarily to scout and clear the southern dense jungle from any lingering contacts.

When Scorpions and Phoenix started their assault, Phoenix was ambushed by a T-34 which caused a MCI. Phoenix tried to use their AT-4s but missed. Widowmaker 6 was knocked out by a HE shell from the tank. Phoenix attempted to establish cover to hide from the tank whilst requesting help from other squads and providing first aid to the wounded. Unfortunately no other squads were close enough to provide immediate assistance. Once Widowmaker 6 was back up, he and Widowmaker Fox rushed over to friendly strykers that were parked roughly 200 meters away whilst under heavy fire from the tank. Widowmaker 6 got into the M2 of one stryker, attempting to distract the T-34 whilst Widowmaker Fox ran to a more distant stryker to fetch an AT-4 stick. Widowmaker 6's vehicle got hit twice by the tank's main turret but, by some miracle, the stryker withstood both blasts. Meanwhile Widowmaker Fox was able to get a shot off on the T-34, completely destroying the enemy asset.

Scorpions started their assault on Malari, unfortunately the town seemed to be more heavily fortified than initially expected. Platoon HQ rushed to Widowmaker 1's position to provide suppressive fire and provide first aid until Phoenix took over. Meanwhile Ghosts and Spartans finished clearing the jungle and also collapsed onto Malari. Widowmakers performed a dangerous but successful opposing side platoon assault. Many casualties were taken during the assault on this little village and a CCP was established.

Widowmakers kept on sustaining casualties, including leadership elements. Eventually the call was made to break contact and pull back to the embassy. This proved to be a difficult task due to different elements being combat ineffective and others struggling under combat stress, for of war, and overall chaos. Eventually everyone was loaded into friendly vehicles and rushed back to the embassy for debrief.