Word: ambusher
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...captivity. Of those, she says she has no recollection. Otherwise, she is organized, thorough, precise. Perfect qualities for a supply clerk. And she is pale, skinny, with thin, straight legs that look as if they would be easy to snap. Hardly ideal for surviving the most deadly ambush of the war: 11 of the 32 soldiers with her died that day, six were captured, eight wounded. She's the only one in her wrecked humvee who survived...
...whole weapons qualification again to make sure that we knew how to operate a weapon, but also we did a lot of training with gas masks. In a sense we were ready, but we weren't ready for an ambush attack...
...security crisis in Iraq involves a lot more than simply the death throes of Baathism. Forty U.S. soldiers have been killed in the past 10 days, and each day brings not only an average of 30-35 ambush attacks on coalition troops, but also some new terror outrage or an audacious attack showing the insurgents' growing reach. Wednesday's tally, for example, included eight mortar shells lobbed into the most secure square mile in Baghdad, where the Coalition Provisional Authority is headquartered, and also a truck bombing in Nasiriyah that killed 17 Italian policemen and nine of the Iraqis they...
Saving finesses the controversial details of the rescue, embellished in early accounts. Lynch doesn't empty her rifle when her unit is captured (but the ambush scene is chaotic enough that you might believe she did), nor are the soldiers who rescue her met by Iraqi troops (but the movie tries to gin up suspense anyway). Sigh. It would have been a far less dull picture had the meddling truth...
...company commander Captain Ryan Worthan fans his men out into the scrub pines and along the wadis, to stalk the enemy. In one wadi, Sergeant Christopher McGurk sees footprints and the remains of a fire. He makes a decision that, in the end, probably saves 20 lives: sensing an ambush, he orders his men to advance parallel to the footprints along a nearby hill. Had they remained in the wadi, they would have blundered straight into the enemy's gunsights...