Jocko Willink

The, you know, the Commodore visited.

that SOCOM commander visited.

You know, General Brown, SOCOM commander.

He came to see us in Ramadi.

We got 35 SEALs, bro.

He's in charge of all of the world of special operations.

He came to Ramadi to see what we were doing, to talk to the conventionals, make sure that they were getting what we needed.

So there was a lot of eyes on what we were doing.

And part of that was because of the amount of people we were killing.

And part of it was because they were very risky operations.

Yeah.

Yep.

And again, it wasn't just me and Special Operations.

General McFarland was feeling the same thing.

And again, just like General McFarland had a great relationship with the MEF commander, I had a great relationship with my commanding officer.

And so when I explained to him what was happening, you know, we started probably a few weeks, like three weeks into these sniper overwatches that we were doing.

This was early in deployment.

And we'd killed, I don't know how many, probably, I don't know, 10, 15 something, mostly IED emplacers.

And...

I talked to my headquarters and they're like, hey, you know, you're killing these IED emplacers, but the IEDs haven't gone down yet.