But yeah, so-- but what really happened that day was that I couldn't help but think that I got ambushed by all the senior guys.And I knew that I was gay and it meant so much to my masculinity.
We read those messages. We were waiting to ambush the ambushers. We defeated the Japanese in the three-day sea battle that's now one of the most famous sea battles of all time.
They basically say hey, Abdul. Get to the ambush spot. Because they have three or four of them already picked out.
from British rifles that went out of service in the 19th century up in these firing positions on either side of the road, so they'd obviously been using this ambush site for some considerable time. But I'm in the middle of this ambush , and I think to myself, this is a pretty bad ambush .
officer that was gunned down in the line of duty. So she was ambushed making a routine night deposit at a bank. And she was in the car with a grocery store manager, they were making a deposit.
And I get asked exactly this question. I was really ambushed the first time I heard it. And somebody said, your industry is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
He was in the Vietnam War as a young man. His company got ambushed one day. He took shrapnel wound to his leg.
Oh, yeah. That really happened. Someone I know got ambushed into having to submit to very invasive medical tests, because the family wanted to know, like, is this a viable woman for our family?
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. Our new idea of AmbushCam is you put the eyeballs on the trail.
And that takes an emotional connection. We were going to do these ambush roadblocks, because believe it or not, we weren't allowed to be offensive.
But we were back in by June of 1942. The Japanese had set out to ambush us on the island of Midway and finish off our Pacific fleet. We read those messages.
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. And they can then set the ambush .
So it's the fable of the California oyster. The oyster pirates preferred to ambush the beds by moonlight. Working mostly in pairs, with two men per vessel, they mustered together in ramshackle armadas of 30 or 40 small boats.
It's not the first, or in fact, the last time that I've been ambushed in Afghanistan, but this particular one was interesting. It was the classic late afternoon ambush scenario that you get in Afghanistan, because most of Eastern Afghanistan has a very, very narrow set of valleys that have settlement patterns of-- basically people live in the bottom of the valleys.
of cross uh horizontal polonization of this process has been as adults we're so that wasn't an ambush and they're aware of this increasingly untenable position I'm old I'm 46 and I was a
was the behavior of local Villages so when they start the firefight there's about 2 300 people working in fields uh around the site where the Ambush happens and all these guys rush home get their AK-47 and they come back and they join in the firefight and they're actually firing and pinning down these Americans and sticking them in the Ambush site so that it's hard for them to get out and
I could be this close to them, wherein they were being private, with a camera. And it wasn't like ambushing them. But it was because they knew I was there.
But it was because they knew I was there. They were learning how to be ambushed by a photographer, who was me-- who was their manager. So if any of the pictures were terrible, they would never be seen.
So all those levers are activated, and what they do is they then engage all the levers at one of these sections. You said that you were ambushed by the comic.
of cross uh horizontal polonization of this process has been as adults we're everywhere as I had sort of ambushed them and they freaked out and shut me down and I had actually spoken to a
Good thing you didn't touch him. Yeah, so they're ambush hunters, which is really cool. Like you say that they hide and then basically want to just grab the food that comes close to them, whether it's a goldfish in a tank or one
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. And the idea here is that being on an ambush is really dangerous.
They had shot my father through the ear in an ambush in 1940.
been using this ambush site for some considerable time. But I'm in the middle of this ambush , and I think to myself, this is a pretty bad ambush . I've become a bit of an involuntary connoisseur over the years, and I actually used to teach ambushing at the tactics school
He says you can apply the same idea to a city. And I think circling back to that Afghan ambush , that's what we need to be looking at going forward, not remote rural mountainous environments where you don't
loss when your friend is killed in an ambush the feeling of guilt when one of your soldiers under your command is
Bryan have you guys ever ever been in an ambush with small arms fire the I assume the laugh means a
They laid deadly traps for their enemies and ambushed them using underground tunnels.
But often I suspect parents feel a bit ambushed , like they don't have the right answer to give.
And so, the night ambushes that would happen, it was really difficult. The guys didn't have night-vision equipment.
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. The other device that we have is called AmbushCam.
and see what you guys are most interested in talking about. I began writing the book in September of 2009 after getting ambushed in Afghanistan. It's not the first, or in fact, the last time that I've been ambushed in Afghanistan, but this particular one was interesting.
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. This is the first place we're deploying them widely with the trail guards and ambush cams and night vision googles, with the idea of not making any more orphans.
in the afternoon. You're going to be driving down the valley. And in fact, Afghan families have ambush spots like families in the Chesapeake Bay have fishing spots or families out here. They don't have to go through the full complex planning process that an infantry small unit does when it decides to do an ambush .
Because they have three or four of them already picked out. In fact, I was in another ambush earlier in my career in Afghanistan where we actually found old 303 ammunition from British rifles that went out of service in the 19th century up in these firing positions on either side of the road, so they'd obviously
On New Year's day of 2005 I was on a foot patrol that was ambushed by improvised explosive device.
you're in that Valley the enemy knows exactly how you're planning to get out because there's only one way out uh so these guys are trying to get back home for the night and they get ambushed 150 uh Taliban in this big group dug in around the hills firing down on top of them uh a staff sergeant called Christian longsworth gets killed pretty
mammals, so theyíre probably more scavengers here than they are ambush predators. So we really do find that they move very slowly. You have to be careful, of course, because
around the site where the Ambush happens and all these guys rush home get their AK-47 and they come back and they join in the firefight and they're actually firing and pinning down these Americans and sticking them in the Ambush site so that it's hard for them to get out and after the firefight we went out and we talked to a lot of these guys on the ground and we say we didn't think you
and things, and blowing up bridges, ambushing German convoys, and liberating a whole part of France.
And then others were a little more exciting than that, and they were actual ambushes .
your nostrils. And then the third step is you will just be ambushed by all of these random thoughts.
And the CIA gave us training because a lot of us were sent to war zones and places where we could be ambushed .
That's something that keeps people alive in combat because that's how you notice that slight rustling in the brush that might mean there's an ambush .
I mean, my friend, Brendan, from Second Platoon said to me at one point, we were on an ambush , we were sort of sitting on this hillside
And in fact, Afghan families have ambush spots like families in the Chesapeake Bay have fishing spots or families out here. They don't have to go through the full complex planning process that an infantry small unit does when it decides to do an ambush . They basically say hey, Abdul.
when I was captain. So I'm like, if these were my students on the battle course, I would have failed them for their ambush plan. It was just very badly put together.
And in what DOD considered a very fast deployment, three years later these heavily armored vehicles known as MRAPVs, mine resistant ambush protected vehicles, were sent out in the country.
"They almost killed me." "Well, I guess they didn't." Lolo shakes his head and swears again, this time without anger. Despite the ambush , he's
But I like to know that somebody said it, if you see what I mean, because you never know when you're going to be ambushed .