CIMMERIAN AFTER ACTION REPORT - OP: FREEDOM STRIKE
- MISSION COMPLETE: 17 SEP 05 -

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This month's operation was an intense Saturday combat re-enactment, based on a modern-day scenario in Central Europe. Thank you all for attending and help making it another outstanding Cimmerian Operation!

Combat Operations:
- Reconnaissance and Combat Patrol
- Multiple objectives
- ID and Elimination of specific operators in the field

OPCOM: Capt. Fisher

AO: WOODCHUK

MISSION SCENARIO:  

Boznia, former Yugoslavia ...

During the Balkans war there were Russian advisors (mercs) to Serb forces. Therewas indication that a Ukrainian PVO Strany (Air Defence component) officer assisted Bosnian Serb forces in shooting down 2 German Av-8B harriers in the summer of 1995 in Eastern Bosnia. GSG9 team was dispatched to the area to investigate and/or eliminate whether there were Russian/Ukrainian irregulars operating in the area. On Mt. Majevica, while historical details are sketchy, the German GSG had eliminated a "foreign operated antiaircraft installation." This was a "black bag" job because Ukrainian forces were a part of UNPROFOR in Sarajevo.

About two days afterwards, Ukrainians reported that one of their colonels "Chekanin"  and his staff were shot on a checkpoint manned by the Serbs, interestingly all of the staff was from the PVO (AA) component of the Ukrainian 2nd Mechanized Batt. stationed in Sarajevo.

This event is historically significant for two reasons a) it got Ukrainians out of the market for selling know-how to Serbs b) signified first Bundeswehr's ground action against another European country since the days of The Vermacht  - again, the German aircraft that were brought down, so the Germans exacted punitive action.

LOAD OUT :
This is a modern-day combat re-enactment, set in Central Europe. We ask that you please to try your best to acheive the impressions described. Appropriate modern webgear and weapons as budget allows is acceptable.

GSG9 - German "Flecktarn" fatigues with a soft cap or helmet

SERB - Soviet Woodland or UK DPM with a soft cap or beret (US Woodland-type BDU acceptable)


REGISTRATION:
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If interested, submit your contact information into the ARS and sign the mandatory waiver. Once you have received an approval email, you will not have to supply this info again.   An automated confirmation will then be emailed to you. YOU MUST RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE or you will not be registered.

From then on, you only can use the FAST and EASY Registration link provided in each Operation page.    

1. If you are a NEW PARTICIPANT and have not operated with the Cimmerians before, please go to the ENLISTMENT STATION , and follow the instructions listed. A Cimmerian representative will then be in contact with you.

2. If you are a CIMMERIAN or if you regularly operate with us as a Player in Good Standing and have not yet used the ARS, you must first go here and follow the ARS link on that page, to input your contact information.