Jocko Willink

You're freezing the whole time.

And you take a, you know, a lead line and a slate So you take a lead line and you dip it in the water And it's got little markings on it To show you how deep the water is And then you have this slate on your arm Where you're writing down how deep the water is And you do this whole Your whole platoon is doing it at the same time And it's just a gut check And we get done that night

And then you have to take all the slates With all the information on them And you bring them back to the ship And then the cartographers Which are the guys in the platoon That take all that information They build a chart to give to the Marine Corps And we go through all that And then that day, early morning We then go out and mark the beach lanes So we swim across the beach again And we set up the beach lanes And we mark them for the Marines And the Marines come in and land And so now it's like 48 hours of continuous operations Freezing cold, gut check

And we get done and get a few hours into the beach landing, and the Marine Corps decides that they didn't like their landing.

And so they said, you know, we missed our timeline.

We didn't bring the vehicles in the right direction.

Whatever the problems they had, we're doing it again.

We're reloading the ships, and we're doing it again.

which is like mammoth and ballsy for the Marine Corps colonel to say like, hey, I didn't like it.

We're doing it again.

This is massive.

So we reload on the ships and we start the whole thing again.

And we go out to do the hydrographic reconnaissance.

And we're in our little boat pool.

You know, we launch from the big ships.

We go on the Zodiacs.

We get to the point.

It's been all night.

And we're getting ready to get in the water.

And we're in our little boat pool.