Jocko Willink

Oh, bring everything back downstairs.

Another two or three hours.

Later, they say, oh, you're gonna use helicopters.

Now we gotta break all, so we're getting whipped around the whole time.

And this is, by the way, someone just saying, oh, why don't they use the helicopters?

Oh, okay, cool, I'll tell them.

And they think it's just like this, but it's not.

So I always remembered

what it was like.

I also always remember when I was in STT, SEAL Tactical Training, we had to walk in every position in the platoon.

So sometimes you'd be point man, sometimes you'd be the PL, sometimes you'd be the radio man, sometimes you'd be a machine gunner.

And I remember, luckily or unluckily for me, we did a long patrol.

And I was rear security.

And I had no idea where we were.

I had no idea where we were going.

I had no idea where we were going to stop again.

If we got contacted, I might as well have just like started running around like a chicken with my head cut off because I didn't know where the rally ports were.

I didn't even know where the target was.

And I hated that feeling.

And I always said to myself, I am going to make sure that I keep the guys informed of what is happening.