Jocko Willink

The fact that I was even having those thoughts, you know, part of it was me trying to truly figure out what happened, but part of it was like, oh yeah, this is you trying to look for someone to blame.

There's no one to blame.

You're in charge.

So, you know, I, the guys in the troop, the guys in the task unit, like these guys, I'm not a hard person to figure out.

I'm not,

maneuvering in some way.

I am who I am.

And those guys knew that.

And so I think I would have lost a lot of respect.

I think I did what they probably expected I was going to do.

Maybe some of them were pleasantly surprised, but I think most of them knew me.

I think I would have been a

We would have been very out of character if I had gone in there and blamed someone else.

That's not how it works.

You know, again, this goes back to that platoon commander I had.

You know, that guy, he was responsible for everything.

When we screwed something up, even when we screwed something up, even when, one time one of my friends got in trouble, like on Liberty, and he wasn't even there.

He wasn't even there.

And he's like, yeah, you know, I should have seen this coming.

I was like, check.