Jocko Willink

What day it was, I don't know, but we were going to a memorial service, like almost out of the gate.

And again, what was, what left a mark was I could tell in the memorial service that this was a routine.

Like it wasn't an ad hoc thing.

Like I'm looking around and I go, this is not an ad hoc thing.

I've been in the military for, at this point, 15 years.

I know what it looks like when you throw together a ceremony last minute and you get in there and you do something.

This was not that.

I'm looking at like the setup where they have the memorial crosses.

Those things are used.

I'm looking at where the preacher's talking from.

I'm like, oh, he's delivering remarks again.

So that's the, my first memory of Ramadi was that, was going, yeah, these guys, you know, we're showing up here.

These guys from the 228 under Colonel Goronski, they've been here for 14 months.

They've taken, they've lost almost a hundred guys.

They've taken hundreds and hundreds of casualties.

And we need to do what we can to help them.

That was my attitude.

I was like, we need to help these guys as much as we possibly can.

Yeah.

We had, for some reason, we had 13 snipers.