Last Friday (Dec. 6), Emma Stone and Bill Murray surprised troops stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam in Hawaii.
During the battle, however, North Korean troops were able to surprise US troops on Hill 303 and capture them.
President Obama decided to surprise the troops in Iraq, and visit them at Camp Victory.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin April 7, 2009 President Obama decided to surprise the troops in Iraq, and visit them at Camp Victory.
If General Washington were trying his nighttime river crossing this year to surprise enemy troops in Trenton, the bold plan, along with the boats, would quickly run aground, because the drought has dropped the Delaware River by several feet.
Meanwhile, Steward's detachment would advance onto Staten Island, and Stirling's forces would then push to Richmond, in the center of Staten Island, where they would surprise enemy troops.
Residents who said they had witnessed the attack in Mayfaa reported that the militants had surprised the troops in their barracks at dawn in dense fog.
To many on the outside, the audacious assault recalled the first of Russia's wars in Chechnya, in the mid-1990's, when guerrillas twice surprised Russian troops with mass hostage-takings on the embattled province's borders.
Prime Minister Tony Blair surprised British troops stationed in southern Iraq on Sunday, paying them a quick postholiday visit to survey their progress and extol them as "the new pioneers of soldiering in the 21st century".
They developed shadow governments, used an underground system to finance their insurgency — collecting donations and even taxes — and repeatedly surprised American troops with guerrilla attacks, killing a few men at a time and leaving the rest in a constant, exhausting state of vigilance.
