The CRAZIEST Ambush!*

About this video

Ritland recounts a combat incident in Ramadi, Iraq, where his convoy was ambushed with RPGs and machine guns while protecting a State Department official. He describes receiving intelligence about an ambush on their planned route, taking an alternate path, and encountering insurgents anyway. Ritland details maneuvering his vehicle under fire, narrowly avoiding multiple RPG strikes, and successfully extracting his team back to base.

Key takeaways

• Ritland describes how his convoy received intelligence about a planned ambush and altered their route, only to encounter insurgents on the alternate path
• According to Ritland, an insurgent’s RPG failed to fire at close range due to the safety lever not being released, and a second RPG missed due to his reversing maneuver
• Ritland recounts that despite damage to the follow vehicle from RPG fragmentation, all personnel successfully returned to base

Episode details: published June 29, 2026 · 47.4K views · 1:23 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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