Jocko Willink

So we're planning this operation and it's weird.

So now we're talking about what is the head shed doing?

Like, so in Ramadi, the leadership had figured or made a decision that they didn't want any battalion-sized operations conducted in Ramadi.

But this clearance was gonna take that whole battalion plus to get it done.

And they run it up the chain of command.

Hey, we want to do this battalion sweep of this area.

And it comes back, hey, no battalion-sized operations.

And so they said, okay.

So we took and broke up this battalion-sized operation into like multiple smaller operations that were company plus sized operations.

It's a little bit of a shell game is what I'm getting at.

But...

It was the mandate that had come down and the commanding officer of the battalion said, okay, that's the mandate we got to meet.

Here's how we can maneuver around that and still accomplish the mission.

So that's what we ended up doing.

And this is, you know, you're talking about the first major operation.

So this is the first major operation that we're doing.

We're planning to sweep a certain section of the city first thing in the morning.

Then we're going to reset, do another section of the city, then do another section.

What do you mean by sweep?

Are you talking about like ground reconnaissance, hyper overwatch?