Jocko Willink

a very, looked like it was gonna be an awesome deployment.

Like those guys had a good force that they were working with.

They had a good op tempo.

They just had good stuff going on.

So it looked like that's where we were going.

And when we, when I got home from that PDSS, they wanted to align all of, because the East and West Coast were both in Iraq at the same time.

And yet the West Coast had

Western Iraq, except for they had an element in Baghdad.

And then the East Coast had Eastern Iraq, except for they had an element in Ramadi.

And you can already see this doesn't make much sense, right?

So as the two commanding officers were getting ready to deploy, they talked about it and were like, wait a second, why do we have our forces kind of disjointed?

West Coast, you take Western Iraq.

That's like Fallujah, Habbaniya, Ramadi.

East Coast, you take Baghdad, which includes the ICTF and then the other stations that they had.

And it makes sense.

There's no two ways about it.

And when I heard that, I wasn't on leave, but my guys were on leave, pre-deployment leave.

We were that ready to go to Baghdad.

And my skipper called me to the office and said, hey, what do you think about going to Ramadi?

And I was like, I knew exactly what was going on in Ramadi.