The only way to escape an ambush is, as they taught us in Ranger School, to get out of the kill zone, immediately.
Whether that's forward, backward, or through the ambush, that's the only way. Near or far ambush, the answer is still the same. The kill zone is prepared and all weapons are zeroed in on it. So, get out. Return fire if you can, run away if you can't.
That simplifies the subject as well as I've ever seen. We initiated ambushes when I led the Recon platoon, at distances typically of six, ten, twelve feet. Overpowering firpower with the initiation means fewer people are going to get away.
I was never ambushed, by God's will. Except in a LCM riverboat, and they missed with the RPGs. All shot high.
