Jocko Willink
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Podcast Appearances
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...