Our firefighters have been engaged in a firefight of epic proportions, trying to save every structure possible".
Engaged in a firefight with our troops?
"A few suicide bombers attacked the Safi Landmark hotel, and there is still a firefight between them and our security forces going on," said Gen. Sayed Ghafar, the chief of the Criminal Investigations Department for the police in Kabul, the capital.
I quickly established FM communications with company fire support, and learned that Company A was engaged in a firefight three clicks west of our location.
Our talk, which was more like a ninety-minute firefight, put some ideas in my head that I've been pondering ever since.
It took us three hours to make it two miles--in the dark, with our night-vision on and we could hear the firefight going all the time as we walked.
The fact that we did not find ourselves confronted with civilian casualties, or embroiled in an extended firefight, was a testament to the meticulous planning and professionalism of our Special Forces, but it also depended on some luck.
The risks in that case were immense; the likelihood of capture, although our preference, was remote given the certainty of resistance; the fact that we did not find ourselves confronted with civilian casualties, or embroiled in an extended firefight, was a testament to the meticulous planning and professionalism of our Special Forces – but also depended on some luck.
Three days later, all of us in the metropolitan region woke up in lockdown, asked to stay in our houses as police searched for Dzhokhar after he escaped an early morning firefight and hid nearby.
A second officer then got into a firefight with the shooter, who now "is deceased, from the actions that our officer took".
