Jocko Willink

I knew that I was at the limited advance.

Like I knew what had happened.

And in talking to that Anglico guy was like, yeah, the Iraqis pushed down here.

And I was like, oh.

So we finished the clearance, you know, because that's what you do.

Like there's still a mission going on.

We finished the clearance.

And as we finished the clearance, we then, we're now like some elements stay out there, but the bulk of the clearance force is now going back to base.

I go back to base and myself and the company commander go to the same battalion commander that he had just told he wanted SEALs with us on all of his operations.

And this battalion commander is one of the best guys.

But seriously, one of the best leaders I've ever met.

And he looked at me, and he looked at Joe, and he's like, what happened out there?

And there was a giant battle map, like literally wallpaper.

And I just walked through with him.

I was like, hey, sir, I had an element here, I had an element here.

My element moved to here.

This Iraqi element pushed down.

He goes, they went past, they limited advance.

My guys didn't know who they were, engaged them.

They called the QRF.