Jocko Willink
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And when you go out the gate, you go out the gate and there it is.
You're in it.
You're in Ramadi.
And, you know, there was people killed on Ramadi, you know, from mortars and rocket strikes and stuff like that.
So it was all around you.
How big was Ramadi?
I never made it out there.
Probably like four miles across.
That's it?
Yep.
350,000 people, roughly speaking, of civilians.
Yeah, Camp Ramadi was a pretty big base, because it was a former Iraqi army base.
It was a pretty big base, and we had our little annex to that base, right on the Euphrates River, as frogmen should be.
And within, once the whole task unit showed up,
Like the night the task unit showed up, there was like a coordinated attack on various bases, ours being one of them.
And like every guy in our task unit, the first night that they showed up in Ramadi was on the roof of our building, just getting after it.
No shit.
Yeah.
So that was kind of a good welcome to Ramadi as well.
Wow.