Jocko Willink

That is so important.

It gets dropped all the time because you get focused on like, well, hold on, how much longer to the next?

This is the platoon commander talking.

He's only talking to the point man.

And so now when he stops talking to the rest of the platoon, they lose track of what's happening.

And it's just a cluster.

And so even as an enlisted guy, I realized that

you have to make a concerted effort to explain to the guys what is happening.

And if you fail to do that, they'll have no idea and you won't know that they don't know.

And that's a disaster.

So now when you move me up into this officer position, now I'm saying, oh yeah, I bet the platoon has no idea why they're having the helos move to this position or why they're being told they have to stand down from this operation because they don't.

They don't get told, oh, the charge d'affaires in this country just said that we can't do it, and here's the risk that they aren't willing to take.

They just hear, hey, it's a kink bird.

And they go, oh, so we just spent four hours doing this, and now it's just nothing.

But they don't understand why.

And so it's incumbent upon the leadership to make sure that everyone in the chain of command understands not just what we're doing, but why we're doing it, and why these changes happen.

Because as you know, these changes happen all the time.

They happen all the time.

And so, yes, I think that one of the things that I had the capability of doing is I was bilingual.

I talked E5, and eventually I learned how to speak officer as well.