Jocko Willink

And, you know, it's just devastating, man.

It's devastating.

Because, again, Mark, you know, we didn't, it seemed like Ryan was going to live, you know, and we didn't really know he was going to be blind yet, but it seemed like he would live.

And, but Mark, you know, this is, again, just a terrible, indescribable loss.

And when you talk to the Army guys, too, it hit all them.

Because

we were getting after it, you know?

And like I told you earlier, when something happened there on the radio, like everyone would kind of hear it.

You might not hear it directly, but if you're in my platoon and you hear reports,

And if I'm an army guy and you're my platoon sergeant and I hear, oh, we just got mortared an hour ago.

And then I hear on my radio, hey, SEALs just took out, or it's like TU ramped engaged three mortar men with mortar tubes with three rounds of 300 wind mag resulting in three EKAA.

Bro, I'm going right over you.

I'm like, hey, the SEALs just whacked those dudes.

And that happened a lot.

And-

You know, we had been very lucky and we had been very lucky for months.

And so talking to the army guys, you know, when, when Mark got killed, it was like the invincibility was shattered, but the war does continue.

And so we stood down for like a day.

Then the, did the memorial service the next day.

And then we got our gear back on.