A few times I've been in ambushes. I remember one time we were doing a joint operation with the SEALs,

and I was in the lead vehicle, and we got attacked with RPGs and machine gun fire, but it targeted the center of the convoy.

And so being on the leading edge of the convoy, we continue to push

and following our standard operating procedures in that type of situation where we're mobile,

you continue to push through the kill zone because getting bogged down in the kill zone is obviously not advantageous.

And that's the theme of this episode of preaching to the choir.

Ambush.

You know, what happens when you get ambushed?

I remember in Special Forces training, the old timers used to tell us from Vietnam,

and we hear about the tactics that in a near ambush, especially,

one of the best tactics is to fight through and penetrate the assault line,

where the bad guys are laying down with their machine guns.

If you could penetrate through that and break

that assault, then you have a chance. Because if you're in a kill zone, then somebody has a beat

on you. You're in somebody's range fan. And it's important to understand that in an ambush, you don't panic.

You don't freeze.

You move.

You have to move.

An ambush tactically is advantageous because it's sudden.

It's violent.

It's disorienting. I remember doing offensive training operations and

tactical combat operations and setting up an ambush or three elements or assault, support,

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