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And I actually knew that it wasn't because I knew that Laith didn't have any Iraqis with him.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
So I knew it was one of our guys.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And Laith gets back to Cop Falcon.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
He calls me up, and he told me what happened.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
He said, we have one KIA.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And I said, who?
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And he said, Charlie 1-4.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
so got their guys together you know and came back to base and um you know i mentioned general brown had come came to visit he came to visit on august 2nd just that was just when the scheduled visit was
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And he came to the flight line for the Angel flight.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And earlier that morning, one of the Marine elements that we worked with from 3-8, there was a 4th Platoon, I think it was Lima Company, and Tony and Leif, and those guys had done a bunch of operations with them and gotten to know them.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And their assistant platoon commander, or their platoon commander,
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
you know, he was kind of bro-ing out friends with Tony because Tony's Tony, you know?
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And, you know, it's weird.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
I heard this story from both guys at a later time, but when Tony gets up there and he sees the platoon commander from 4th Platoon, and he's like, dang, they must've heard about Mark.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And the platoon commander told me later that he saw Tony and he said, dang, they must've heard about Joe.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
Because that morning, Joe Thompson from 3-8, he was killed.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And that was a shortfall for the SEAL teams out of the 90s.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
You know, you think you do an operation and when the operation's over, it's over.
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#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
And if you lose a guy, well, it doesn't really, I mean, it matters, but the operation's over.
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But we never really thought about that.