Jocko Willink

And then we came back and...

He was like, you good?

And I was like, yeah, yeah.

He was like, that was just kind of a shakeout.

And I was like, good call, dude.

You know, like it was him saying, hey, like there's nothing, there's nothing gonna happen.

We're gonna, we're not sending you on a wild goose chase, but you know, go to these couple of points and check them for whatever.

So it was just a good break in of, you know, getting the guys, getting the platoon, getting the vehicles loaded up.

went out, drove around outside the wire.

That was kind of the first time leaving the wire with my nods on.

The first time we got shot at, I was in a Humvee and I'm looking at the Humvee in front of me and I'm like, I see like sparks.

And I'm like, why is someone smoking?

Like, why is someone flicking their, throwing their cigarettes out of the vehicle?

And I'm like, oh, those are bullets, aren't they?

And sure enough, one of the guys, one of the guys got caught in like a ricochet in the head.

Totally good to go.

It like entered his, went through his skin and then like kind of wrapped around his skull.

But he was fine.

You know, we still took him to Charlie Med, but, and then, you know, we, that was kind of like the first time and we got, you know,

That deployment was relatively chill.