Jocko Willink

So it's a pretty sneaky little operation.

You know, the mine clearance vehicle goes by.

It stops to clear a mine, but then some SEALs get out of the back and go set up an overwatch position.

Very cool.

So they're in position.

The one by the soccer stadium is in position.

The other group...

gets in their spot, and the building that they had selected was not the way it looked like it was gonna look on paper, or the way it looked on the overhead imagery, they didn't have a good view of this long axis road that was gonna be utilized for the clearance, which was bad because it was gonna get cleared, and then it would be hours before the ops started, and now we'd have possible IEDs getting reseated.

That's a problem, didn't want that to happen.

So that element decided to move.

And now there's a lot of time compression.

The sun's starting to come up and we're like, as they realize the sun's coming up, they're like, oh, we don't have good visibility of the road that we need.

That's their commander's intent is to watch this road.

They can't see the road.

They decide to move.

As they move, they go into a building that is just outside the limit of advance.

And I'm sorry for civilians that I'm talking in military jargon, but there's a point where the clearance operation was supposed to stop.

And so they're on the other side of, it's a road.

It's like, okay, the clearance operation, they will not go past this road.

So now as things start to develop, I've got my guys, my sniper element over by the soccer stadium, they're starting to engage enemy.