Jocko Willink

The SEALs that are pushing through, they're starting to experience resistance and they're starting to engage with my little element starting to engage.

So there's a lot of enemy fighters out there.

and at some point one of the iraqi elements which i don't know why they did this or i did not know no one knew that they were going to do this they had decided that they were going to set their own cordon around the area that was being cleared so

By themselves, they ran from where the clearance was taking place all the way to the limit of advance road, and they went across it to enter the building and set up an overwatch position for themselves.

That's where my guys were.

So one of my guys, and again, there's so many little details that go into this, but we had seen, they give us Intel pictures, and the Intel pictures have body armor and helmets and AK-47s and chocolate chip camis that the enemy has.

So we know that the enemy can be wearing body armor, chocolate chip camis, helmets, and we know they carry AK-47s.

So one of my guys is in that Overwatch, and...

They're looking out the bottom floor and they see a guy with an AK-47.

Again, it's like not quite nods time.

It's the worst time of day, dude.

And the guy sees a guy with an AK-47 maneuvering through the courtyard, which they had zip tied the courtyard shut.

So this guy had actively entered the courtyard and was now maneuvering.

And my guy shot him.

Obviously, looking back, this was one of those Iraqi soldiers that had run up there.

So now him and his Iraqi soldiers, and there was a small Marine element that had gone with us, an Anglico element.

and gone with these guys because the job of the Anglico is to keep track of the frontline trace of where friendly forces are.

So they see these Iraqi soldiers run off and they followed them because they're freaking awesome Marines and they're doing their job.

So now they get up to where this guy is, where the small element is, and they're like, what's going on?

They're like, hey, you know, broken English, the whole nine yards.