Jocko Willink

Why are we being told we're not, why are you telling me we can't explosively breach anymore?

And he's like,

Here's what's happening.

Here's the amount of casualties from breaches.

Here's the civilians injured by breaches.

Here's, you know, the number of breaches that are happening every night in Baghdad or the surrounding areas.

And the civilian casualties are so high that the generals are saying, don't do this anymore.

And I said, okay.

Now, boss,

if I'm going on to a target where the intel represents a higher probability of there being some kind of resistance on the target, can I breach?

And he's like, well, what do you mean?

I said, well, if I get this intel that says that they're expecting them to have bodyguards or they expect there to be IEDs, can I use explosive breaches to mitigate that risk?

And he's like, yeah, that makes sense.

And that's what we did.

And that's also when we started doing call-outs, which initially,

Guys were doing call-outs?

Yeah.

All the way back then?

Yep.

We started doing them.