Jocko Willink

Actually, the first time I left the wire in Baghdad, the troop SEA was a friend of mine.

Like we were E5 mobsters at team one.

And he had been there for like a month.

And so we show up and he goes, there was like a mortar attack or something.

And he was like, hey, go take your platoon and go like check these roads and this place.

And we went out, you know, we went out the wire and like check these roads and drove to here, drove to there.

And then we came back and...

He was like, you good?

And I was like, yeah, yeah.

He was like, that was just kind of a shakeout.

And I was like, good call, dude.

You know, like it was him saying, hey, like there's nothing, there's nothing gonna happen.

We're gonna, we're not sending you on a wild goose chase, but you know, go to these couple of points and check them for whatever.

So it was just a good break in of, you know, getting the guys, getting the platoon, getting the vehicles loaded up.

went out, drove around outside the wire.

That was kind of the first time leaving the wire with my nods on.

The first time we got shot at, I was in a Humvee and I'm looking at the Humvee in front of me and I'm like, I see like sparks.

And I'm like, why is someone smoking?

Like, why is someone flicking their, throwing their cigarettes out of the vehicle?

And I'm like, oh, those are bullets, aren't they?