Jocko Willink

We're with, you know, a carrier air group, which is an awesome, like, projection of power, unbeatable projection of power.

But we're a little cog in that machine and helping the platoon understand what we're doing, why we're doing it was beneficial.

Yeah.

There are, you know, it's with prior enlisted officers,

Some of the best officers I ever worked for or worked with were prior enlisted officers.

Some of the worst officers I worked with were prior enlisted officers.

So I think it's more of an educational thing and more of an understanding that explaining to people that, hey man, this communication that goes up and down the chain of command, it needs to happen, it's a real thing.

And when your platoon is complaining about something, you should listen to what they have to say because they're doing it for a reason.

And, of course, if you're asking me if they should take more prior enlisted guys and make them into officers, absolutely.

That's awesome.

I wish they would do that all the time.

It's a great move.

It was a strike deployment.

It wasn't a mark, but it was cool.

We did VBSS overseas.

Again, this was like when doing VBSS was as real as it gets.

Get to lock and load your weapon and board a ship and get control of the ship.

And it's...

as good as you could hope for, you know?

We took down a big Russian ship, which was at the time, it was like on CNN.