Jocko Willink

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.

God's a frog, man.

But it was still a little bit distant to me that someone could get wounded or killed.

It was there, but not

we really dominated the battle space.

Like coalition forces dominated the battle space.

And so I didn't have that much of that kind of pressure in my head.

These guys are my bros, and these guys are my friends, and...

When I took over that platoon, we were the first, like the first, maybe the first or second thing we did was a nighttime OTB in San Diego, pilot recovery, training operation.

So I had done three shipboard deployments, man.

I know how to do over the beach.

And we go over the beach and one of our boats like,