Jocko Willink

And we did a lot of direct action missions, you know?

And so we did, we kind of got close a couple times to the idea of sniper overwatching.

We did it a couple times.

but it kind of left an imprint of my mind of what capability we had.

But we were primarily just a DA force and we would just roll out and hit targets.

And I mean, it's, yeah, I don't know if there's anything else I can say to make it, for me to explain how happy I was, but that to me was just the most awesome thing.

What about the pressure?

Yeah, the pressure I felt was just wanting to do a good job.

You know, not wanting to do anything, not wanting to... I wouldn't say not make any mistakes, because I was not a risk-averse person, you know?

Like, I recognized that if you roll out on an operation, things can go wrong.

And I understood that, and I understood that risk.

So, but yeah, you know, you're worried about guys getting wounded, you're worried about guys getting killed.

A little bit of a very distant idea to me.

Guys getting wounded or killed.

It could happen, I thought, but it was... Man, this is early in the war.

The IED threat was relatively small.

We would drive very aggressively at night on nods.

We got ambushed a few times, but it was like...

no factor RPGs going over the, you know, lucky RPGs going over the convoy, you know, machine gun fire going between vehicles.

Like we, we, we got, we got lucky.