Jocko Willink

And everybody...

You know, whether it was they wanted to blame the Iraqis, whether they wanted to take ownership themselves, everybody was chiming in on whose fault it was.

And then I said, no, it wasn't your fault.

It wasn't your fault.

It wasn't your fault.

There's only one person to blame and that person's me.

And that is the truth.

That is the truth.

When you are in charge of a team and something goes wrong, it is your fault.

And then I said, and here's some things that we're gonna do to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

And I started talking about time and space deconfliction.

I started talking about how we were gonna overly signal.

We went through some protocols, but that was it.

And, you know, my boss, who I already had a great relationship with, and the Master Chief, who's a great, you know, legendary Master Chief, he, you know, those guys,

my, my relationship and trust with them went up in both directions because they understood what they understood what had happened.

They understood that I understood.

And I think, you know, if they would have, they, they would, they would have been in their rights to say, Hey, Jocko, you're done.

Or they could have fired anyone in that long chain of command.

I would have, uh,

I would have protested with my own job if they would have tried to fire someone else besides me.