Jocko Willink

But the local populace began to turn against the insurgents, which was the goal.

And as this happened, we started seeing, you know, intel would come in that there's enemy fighters in this area, or there's a enemy fighter in this area, or there's a group of ID makers over here.

So we started pushing when I say we like coalition forces, we started really pushing and taking it to the enemy.

Um,

We had started really pushing some good operations and eliminating a lot of bad guys.

And we were getting towards the end of deployment.

And you know, again, man, I'm just talking about my guys, but there are so many stories, you know?

there was so much loss there and so much heroism there.

You're hearing one person.

I've had a bunch of guys on my podcast that were everybody from brigade commander, company commanders, battalion commanders, and gunners and medics to tell their little tiny part of the story, their little tiny part of the story, you know, um, the brigade reconnaissance element, uh,

Dan Pinion, he was like the sergeant major.

And they had the heaviest casualties of any group, any company-sized element.

He has a guy named Marquis Quick that jumped on a grenade to save some of his other teammates.

And it kind of just happened and almost got overlooked.

And they're trying to get him the Medal of Honor now.

But that's one... And I didn't know about that.

I didn't know about that until he came on my podcast and told me about it.

And I didn't know about it.

So my point in saying all this, man, is I'm giving you like a little fraction of my view.

And I had 40 SEALs in Ramadi.