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brief
in
No Easy Day
(Edited)

Flat-screens that were used in briefings hung on one wall.
p. 38.6

briefings = instances of giving summaries of important information
During the flight over, I had a chance to sit down with the communications tech and brief him.
p. 91.2

brief = give a summary of important information to
We were gathered up for a mission brief at the operations center.
p. 108.7

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
The captain started to organize a foot patrol, while we went back to brief the guys waiting in the outpost's weight room.
p. 125.7

brief = give a summary of important information to
We were briefed weekly on any existing or expected threats worldwide.
p. 144.7

briefed = given a summary of important information
The brief usually ended with the latest information and missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
p. 144.9

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
With us all crowded inside the room, Mike sat down at the table and started the briefing.
p. 147.4

briefing = giving a summary of important information
I found the mock-up of Bin Laden's compound just outside the doors to the main briefing room.
p. 160.2

briefing = for giving summaries of important information
The day before, the CIA had briefed my teammates on the "Road to Abbottabad," essentially how they found Bin Laden.
p. 163.3

briefed = given a summary of important information (to)
While we waited for the others to arrive from breakfast, I started to read the briefings.
p. 163.5

briefings = summaries of important information
The rest of the brief Jay and Mike spent going over the load plan.
p. 168.3

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
The mission briefing took about an hour, and when we were done, Mike and Jay left.
p. 168.5

briefing = summary of important information
A narrator reading off a script started the hour-and-a-half-long brief on Operation Neptune Spear.
p. 176.8

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
Finally, each assault team leader got up and briefed their individual tasks.
p. 176.9

briefed = given a summary of important information about
After the brief, we loaded up into the helicopters and took off for one final run-through.
p. 177.7

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
I missed the first day's brief, where Jen laid out how they tracked him to Abbottabad.
p. 182.8
The SEALs already on their scheduled deployment in Jalalabad got briefed on the plan during our flight over.
p. 186.9 *

briefed = given a summary of important information
They heard rumors something was spinning up, but no one knew any details until the brief.
p. 187.1

brief = meeting to give a summary of important information
We went into a briefing room near the operations center and I undid the padlocks.
p. 187.5

briefing = for giving summaries of important information
We had daily briefings.
p. 191.3

briefings = summaries of important information
Our daily briefs were held in a long, narrow room with wooden handmade benches running down the middle like a church.
p. 194.5

briefs = gives a summary of important information
Today's briefing was standing room only.
p. 194.6

briefing = meeting to give a summary of important information
They were studying it intently before the briefing.
p. 194.8
A portion of the briefing was about what to do if the mission went drastically wrong and the Pakistani authorities somehow apprehended us.
p. 194.9
At the end of the brief, the commanding officer of DEVGRU came walking in.
p. 195.9
The officer briefing us faded into the background as the commander got to the front.
p. 196.2

briefing = giving a summary of important information (to)
No more briefs.
p. 196.9

briefs = summaries of important information
"Just get the guys on the ground," Admiral McRaven had reiterated during one of our final briefs.
p. 218.1

briefs = meetings to give summaries of important information
The CIA had briefed us on what type of digital voice recorder they thought Bin Laden used and had even showed us one that was similar during our training.
p. 247.5

briefed = given a summary to
From the briefs leading up to the mission, I remembered it was supposed to take only ten minutes to reach the FARP site.
p. 257.1

briefs = meetings to give summaries of important information
The head shed was still over at the airfield briefing Admiral McRaven.
p. 277.2

briefing = giving a summary of important information (to)

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In the team room, the guys made us introduce ourselves and give them a brief bio.
p. 39.4 *

brief = of short duration

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(1) (brief as in: briefed her)
to give a summary of important information to someone
(2) (brief as in: legal brief)
a summary of important facts -- especially an opinion of a legal case
(3) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).

brief in No Easy Day (Edited)

brief
in
No Easy Day
(Edited)