Jocko Willink
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I think, I want to say Blackwater actually came in with their helo.
Is that what that?
I was wondering if that's what that was.
It was.
So we went down there.
We spent the night.
Didn't do anything.
And then drove back.
But, you know, I remember thinking, hmm, that's interesting.
I'm getting this hug from my bro.
We ended up doing, towards the end of the deployment, there was a...
There was one of Sadr's, Muqtada al-Sadr was the leader of the Shiites in Iraq.
And we, coalition forces, had been targeting him for months.
Our whole deployment, he was being targeted.
But they didn't want to hit him because they didn't know what the reaction would be.
And so just before we were going home, we got tasked with hitting one of his top lieutenants.
And it was a big operation, lot of visibility on it.
And we went down and that was also, I wanna say that was in Najaf.
Yeah, that was in Najaf.
We went down, we captured this guy.