Jocko Willink

And I actually knew that it wasn't because I knew that Laith didn't have any Iraqis with him.

So I knew it was one of our guys.

And Laith gets back to Cop Falcon.

He calls me up, and he told me what happened.

He said, we have one KIA.

And I said, who?

And he said, Charlie 1-4.

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

And he came to the flight line for the Angel flight.

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.

And their assistant platoon commander, or their platoon commander,

you know, he was kind of bro-ing out friends with Tony because Tony's Tony, you know?

And, you know, it's weird.

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.

And the platoon commander told me later that he saw Tony and he said, dang, they must've heard about Joe.

Because that morning, Joe Thompson from 3-8, he was killed.

And that was a shortfall for the SEAL teams out of the 90s.

You know, you think you do an operation and when the operation's over, it's over.

And if you lose a guy, well, it doesn't really, I mean, it matters, but the operation's over.

But we never really thought about that.