Jocko Willink

I'm talking the Iraqi soldiers with the U.S.

Army, but primarily the Iraqi soldiers in the lead are going to enter every building

Holy shit.

In an area.

It's a clearance operation.

Okay.

Meet with the people, see if they have weapons, talk to them about, get atmospherics, and then go to the next building, and go to the next building, and go to the next building.

So as they do this, they know that they're going to get attacked.

So in order to interdict the attacks...

And they also know that once you clear a street of IEDs in a matter of hours, they come out and we called it reseeding the IEDs, which is, it happens so much that they have a term for it, it's reseeding the IEDs.

So they know that if we clear a road and get rid of the IEDs, the enemy will come back in and put IEDs.

So when we put together this plan,

I have a group of SEALs that are going to go with the Iraqi soldiers to help them and do C2 for their clearance operation.

And then I have two elements of SEALs that are gonna go out and one of them is gonna overwatch one of these long access roads and the other one's gonna overwatch a shorter access road, but also the Ramadi soccer stadium, which is a staging area for the enemy.

And then I am going to be with the company commander

who's an awesome guy, Joe Claiborne, crazy Joe Claiborne.

I'm going to be with him because he's helping C2 and the Iraqi soldiers with elements of his company.

There's a lot going on, man.

Yeah, no kidding.

So we launch pre-dawn, and this is another thing, pre-dawn operation,