Jocko Willink

And people report back that, yeah, man, it has an impact.

You're not just Team Alpha or Team Bravo.

You're Task Unit Bruiser.

Let's go.

So there was one task unit that was designated to go to Iraq, and that was Alpha.

And Bruiser and Charlie, one of those task units was going to go to PACOM.

meaning no war.

And so my commanding officer and master chief, they brought us all back.

They brought the head shed from each task unit back.

And they said, hey, if you want, we can take and we can split up the task units so that whoever hasn't been to Iraq, we can all put them in one task unit and they can all go to Iraq.

And then the other guys that already have been to Iraq can go to,

Paycom, which is the fair fairy, right?

Like when the fair fairy shows up to try and make everything fair.

And yeah, I was, so I had my opinion, but I went back and asked the guys, because we were just starting our land warfare.

And I said, hey, here's what they're offering.

They're offering for us to split up and guys that haven't been to Iraq can go, or we stay together and they send whoever performs the best to Iraq.

And I kind of smiled.

And they're all like, hell yeah, let's go.

So it was, you know, a little bit of a competition to see who goes to Iraq.

And, you know, we were very hardworking.