Jocko Willink

Now I learned the officer language, and now it was learning, I don't know what to call the next level up of officer language, but it's like- Flag officer language.

Flag officer language.

Because for that year, I was in the Pentagon.

I was, you know, and you'd be, it's weird when you're an aide.

It's kind of like you don't exist, but you do.

And I don't mean that in a bad way.

My boss was a great guy.

He was, you know, just a great guy, nice guy, cared about me a lot.

But like when you're in a room with a four-star general, like the aides are kind of these sub-humans in the back, but you're listening to everything, you're seeing everything.

And so it was a very educational experience as to what's happening at those levels.

You know, you're going to meetings at the Pentagon, JSOC, like just really educational.

Yeah.

And, you know, for us in the SEAL teams,

We don't realize often how much visibility we have, especially back then.

Look, I guess now it's pretty obvious we have a lot of visibility.

But back then, you know, you wouldn't think that an E-5 in a SEAL platoon doing something dumb on Liberty would get a phone call to the Admiral from...

the vice CNO or the CNO or the sec nav, like these things are a big deal.

And so that's what I learned.

I learned the amount of scrutiny that we're under.

The SEAL Team Five guys, they had someone in that platoon