Jocko Willink

Yeah, it was an honor, and it was the boys, you know?

When you asked me if I kind of knew what was happening in my first deployment, like I was in Baghdad, we were doing DAs, and I was like, yeah, I knew.

And on this deployment, I really knew.

Like, every day.

I knew that every day this was gonna be, this was the highlight of my life.

This was the most thing, this was the most, this was the highlight of my life.

I knew it every single day.

I knew every time I went out, every time I saw the boys off, I knew that this was the most important thing I would do in my life, was this.

And, you know, one thing that I leaned on, because, you know,

there's the whole political aspect of this thing of like, oh, why were we there?

Um, what was it worth?

All that kind of thing.

And one of the things that the brigade commander said to me, uh, as I was leaving and, you know, he, we had a four minute, uh,

brigade meeting, of a 30-minute brigade meeting, he spent three minutes talking to me and, you know, kind of saying, hey, this group of SEALs is leaving us.

The task unit bruiser guys are gone.

And, you know, he presented me with this like wooden tank that they had made, like a little cool little sculpture of a wooden tank, which by the way, the guy that was in charge of getting those tanks made was one of the brigade staff who was killed in combat.

But he said, he said, your guys kept hundreds of my soldiers and Marines alive.

And when I got home and I talked to

Mark's mom.

I talked to Mikey's mom.