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SEAL Team 6 Operator Gets Ambushed 🤯

Shawn Ryan Show

A SEAL Team 6 operator recounts a dangerous ambush during what was supposed to be an easy final mission before returning to the States. The team found themselves trapped on a rooftop, taking fire from multiple directions including a PKM machine gun 300 yards away.

Summary

The speaker describes a combat situation that occurred during what was intended to be their final, easy mission before returning to the United States. The team had climbed onto a flat mud roof of a building, which the operator later acknowledges was a tactical mistake. The situation quickly deteriorated when they came under heavy fire from multiple positions - a PKM machine gun mounted on a car approximately 300 yards away, and additional gunfire from a house behind their position. The operator describes being pinned down on the rooftop in difficult conditions, struggling to identify targets due to a bright light positioned behind the enemy car. During the engagement, he successfully hit one enemy fighter in the shoulder, though he notes seeing the enemy wearing flip-flops, suggesting they may have been irregular fighters rather than uniformed soldiers. The operator mentions carrying armor-piercing rounds specifically for situations where enemies take cover behind vehicles, and describes working his fire from an initial miss 20 yards in front of the target car up to the vehicle itself to neutralize the threat.

Key Insights

  • The operator admits that climbing onto the flat mud roof was a tactical mistake that put the team in a vulnerable position
  • The team was ambushed from multiple directions, including a PKM machine gun 300 yards away on a car and gunfire from a house behind them
  • The operator had difficulty identifying targets due to a bright light positioned behind the enemy vehicle with the PKM gunner
  • The operator successfully hit an enemy fighter in the shoulder and observed the enemies were wearing flip-flops rather than military gear
  • The operator carried armor-piercing rounds specifically for engaging enemies who take cover behind vehicles, working his fire from an initial miss to the target

Topics

military combatSEAL Team 6 operationstactical ambushrooftop engagementenemy fire

Transcript

[0:00] This was like our last stop before we went back to the States. It was going to be super easy, right? We climb a building. It's a flat mud roof. A stupid idea to climb this building. We're laying there. Then we start getting lit up by a building that come to find out was 300 yards away. We start getting lit up from a PKM on top of a freaking car. Then a guy comes out of a house behind us and starts lighting us up and we're like, "What the?" And we're on a roof like sucking mud. I couldn't really pick out what was going on cuz there's a big light behind the car where the…

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