Jocko Willink

We honestly, there was, after that one, it was like,

We were so used to the city, you know?

My first deployment to Iraq, we went all over the place.

We went all the way from Najaf down south, all the way to Hadith up north.

We went east of Baghdad, west of Baghdad.

We went out to Ramadi.

I was all over the place.

This whole deployment, I only left Ramadi one time.

to like go to Balad for one meeting, the first three days, four days of deployment.

And I was back in Ramadi the whole time.

So we knew what was going on.

And so we continued to push and you know, the guys,

Every one of those guys, night after night, day after day, jocked up, getting in a Humvee, driving past the damn vehicle graveyard that had 75 or 100 destroyed vehicles in it from IEDs, out again, out again, out again.

The Army, the Marine Corps, and us.

That's the way it was.

Well, we were, we continued to push operations.

We continued to eliminate enemy fighters.

We saw the beginning of

the Anbar Awakening, which was an incredible process that took place.

And again, General McFarland and I talked about it for a long time on the podcast I did with him.