Jocko Willink

What do you think?

Really?

Does my boss want?

No, no, actually, no, I don't believe my boss wants to do that.

There's gotta be something else going on.

Hey boss, what's the deal with explosive breaching?

Why are we being told we're not, why are you telling me we can't explosively breach anymore?

And he's like,

Here's what's happening.

Here's the amount of casualties from breaches.

Here's the civilians injured by breaches.

Here's, you know, the number of breaches that are happening every night in Baghdad or the surrounding areas.

And the civilian casualties are so high that the generals are saying, don't do this anymore.

And I said, okay.

Now, boss,

if I'm going on to a target where the intel represents a higher probability of there being some kind of resistance on the target, can I breach?

And he's like, well, what do you mean?

I said, well, if I get this intel that says that they're expecting them to have bodyguards or they expect there to be IEDs, can I use explosive breaches to mitigate that risk?

And he's like, yeah, that makes sense.

And that's what we did.