Jocko Willink

That's why.

So I get back and I open up my,

my uh field computer and needless to say i had some emails and some some texts you know the webby texts to explain that hey stand down uh investigation is commencing as as to what happened i'm like yeah roger that so

we consolidate and we go back over to Western Ramadi, Camp Ramadi, Camp Mark, what we end up calling Camp Mark Lee.

And now I'm getting ready to debrief, and my skipper sends me an email like, hey, we'll be out there tomorrow.

Be ready to debrief.

And now I'm trying, so now one Iraqi soldier's dead, multiple Iraqi soldiers wounded, and one of my guys wounded, blue on blue.

Dude, it's a freaking nightmare.

It's a nightmare.

So I spend the next however many hours trying to figure out who is to blame for this.

My assumption is someone's getting fired, right?

Because you can't have a blue on blue and no one gets fired.

My assumption is someone's getting fired.

So it's kind of the question is who's getting fired.

So I go down the list of like,

the element leader that was in charge of the Iraqi soldiers, guess what he didn't do?

He didn't keep control of those soldiers and let them go down and leave the limit of advance.

The radio man that was in charge of that element that moved positions didn't tell me or anyone else where he's going.

He just did it.

Shooter shot a guy without doing a good PID.