Jocko Willink

Just, it was awesome.

It was great.

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...