Jocko Willink

And I said, hey, sir, the average insurgency, according to the counterinsurgency manual, last seven years.

It's been three weeks.

Can I get some more time to work?

And he's like, yeah, check.

But yeah, I mean, well, you know what it's like.

You know what it was like for a SEAL rotation at the time.

You know, you went to Iraq, right?

There's not a lot of...

direct enemy contact and there's not a lot of killing most of the time you're doing da's they don't want to fight do they get killed sometimes yes but most of the time they don't really want to fight so they surrender and you capture the capture kill part is mostly capture for me on my first deployment was almost all capture killed very few well now you're in this

where there's enemy that are, like I said, like going to a salt lick.

They are maneuvering through the streets, and we're in... locations with tactical advantage that we selected, with long access down multiple roads.

You're gonna start killing a lot of enemy fighters.

And it was abnormal.

It was abnormal.

And so, you know, the scrutiny came, but I welcomed it.

It's no factor.

You know, we had to have guys sign a shooter statement for everybody that we killed.

There was like a sworn shooter statement.

And at first, guys were like, well, why do we got to do this?

It's like, hey, because in five years or 10 years or 15 years or 20 years, someone's going to come back and say, this person died here.