Jocko Willink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Ramadi is not a big city.
It's small.
IEDs were totally out of control.
So you had a pretty good idea what you were walking into.
100%.
Yeah.
Well, not 100% because there's still some things you're going to learn, but I knew what was happening.
Again, thankfully, I had done that deployment to Baghdad.
I had experience as an enlisted SEAL.
working for the Admiral, like these are all things that helped me understand.
It was like I was just a little bit ahead of the power curve.
You know what I mean?
Just enough ahead of the power curve.
You know, did you ever get rolled back in buds?
Yes.
I didn't get rolled back in buds, but you could tell the guys that got rolled back, they were like, okay, like pool comp, they know what's coming.
They're just a little bit ahead.
And that's how I felt like I was going into Ramadi.
I had enough to know, like, okay, I know what's coming.
And I told, you know, once the task unit was on the ground, I'm like, this is going to be a historical deployment.