Jocko Willink

And my wife's a saint.

My wife's a saint.

You know, when you were asking me about the pressure on my first deployment to Iraq, and I told you that I didn't really feel this wasn't... The idea of someone getting wounded or killed was kind of a little bit of a distant thing in the back of my mind.

And in Ramadi,

It was front of mind.

And... when you see that many casualties happening... like, on a daily basis... there is... the odds are going to catch you.

And of course, do you hope, am I fatalistic?

Because that was my thought process, maybe.

But it was also just numbers, man.

It was just the numbers.

You just look at the numbers.

And every day, every time you leave the wire, there is a chance.

And so it's a daily basis.

And listen,

the Army and the Marine Corps are just making the most incredible sacrifices.

You see it.

You go to their memorials.

You hear it on the radio.

That's one thing that was, you know, you'd hear it on the radios.

You'd hear, hey, there's one KAA heading back to Camp Ramadi, or three wounded heading to Charlie Med.