Jocko Willink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, once we left his office and talked to the training cadre and figured more about the guy's reputation and talked to the guy himself.
And he realized like two or three days later, he fired him.
And so big win for the E5 mafia.
We're all fired up that we get this guy fired and we proceed.
And now we get our new assignment for our new platoon commander.
We find out who our new platoon commander is gonna be.
And our new platoon commander is a legendary SEAL who I had never met him, but I had heard his name.
Everybody kind of heard his name.
He had been a prior enlisted senior chief.
So he went up all the way to senior chief.
He was at UDT.
He was a plank owner at Damn Neck.
He was at SDV.
He was at a boat team.
He was at Team One.
He had done everything in his career.
Everything you could possibly fucking want as a leader.
He had combat experience from Grenada.
So everything that you could want as a leader, he comes in.
And...