Jocko Willink
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And I'm like, he can go do this thing.
And so he's putting together the plan.
And there's like a lot of stuff to organize.
And he came to me and he's like, hey bro, he's like, I don't know if we're gonna be ready for this.
And I'm like, bro, you're gonna be fine.
You're totally good to go.
You got this.
And he was like, you know, he trusted me, man.
And I trusted him.
That's why I was going.
But he looked at me like with that kind of like, like,
okay, if you say so type thing, and he went out and did it, you know, and it's all good to go.
So we ran some missions like that.
And then what happened was when I met the Colonel, Colonel Gronski, this is before the 1180 showed up, because you're asking about the first missions that we did.
So I had put, Tony Ifrati had taken a little sniper element
with some Marines and him and some SEALs and a couple Iraqi soldiers out to this area where the Marines had been IED'd and lost Marines in early April.
And so Tony went out there, there in Overwatch for 48 hours or something like that, 24 hours, 36 hours, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
I go to meet the brigade commanders.
And as I'm going to meet the brigade commander, I'm walking through his talk.
Like this is out of a movie.