Jocko Willink

Holy shit.

I did not know that.

We started doing call-outs.

And it was like we were figuring out how to do it.

Okay, what are we going to do?

Because from my perspective now, all right, so I'm not going to explosively breach this door.

So we're not going to really have the element of surprise that we want, because when we're sitting there with a sledgehammer, or even a lockpick, anything's going to make noise.

We're going to alert them that we're there.

So now we've got guys in the stack or waiting outside this building.

They're not behind cover.

This is a problem.

How can we mitigate that risk?

Well, since we have to wake them up to breach the door anyways with a freaking sledgehammer, let's just get a little safe distance, set up our vehicles, and...

wake them up and say, hey, you got to come out.

And that's exactly what we started doing.

And then, so what we ended up with was a good variety of tactics of sometimes we'll do a call out.

Sometimes we just mechanically breach the door and sometimes we explosively breach the door.

But all those things were a result of me talking to my boss and then talking to the guys and saying, guys, here's why we can't breach.

This is bullshit.

Oh, okay.