Jocko Willink

And I say for some reason, because that wasn't normal.

You know, both the platoon chiefs were snipers.

We just had, we were overloaded with snipers, which was a real blessing.

And that seeing, remember I talked about being in Baghdad and we did a couple operations where I kind of caught a glimpse of what we could do with snipers, like a little, a little glimpse.

And when I saw what was happening there, I thought to myself, oh,

I think I have an idea of what we can do here.

And the turnover with the guys from team two, great bunch of dudes.

It was like, there was areas where, and same thing with what the coalition forces were telling us.

The 228 was like, hey, this area here, you can't go there.

It's not passable areas.

There are too many IEDs to go down there, period.

So it was, we knew, I knew, I knew it was gonna be a fight, because it was all around us.

We lived, it's another weird thing.

It was like growing up watching war movies, it was usually like, good guys are over here,

Bad guys are over there.

You go over to fight the bad guys.

Like, okay, World War I was trench warfare.

Even the trenches seemed like they were a little bit far apart.

And Ramadi was like, oh, the other side of this wall right here, there's bad guys.

It's like the other side of that wall, there's bad guys.