Jocko Willink

You had to tell me what was what.

Had to tell me the truth about stuff.

So I would say about halfway through the workup, they said, all right, you guys, Bruiser's going.

And look, Bruiser's going to Iraq.

We're like, yeah.

So we were planning to go to Baghdad and work with the ICTF, which is the Iraqi Counterterror Force.

I went on ADVON, as a matter of fact.

And I went and did some ops with those guys and saw what they were doing and started the turnover with their task unit commander.

And that was like kind of...

a very, looked like it was gonna be an awesome deployment.

Like those guys had a good force that they were working with.

They had a good op tempo.

They just had good stuff going on.

So it looked like that's where we were going.

And when we, when I got home from that PDSS, they wanted to align all of, because the East and West Coast were both in Iraq at the same time.

And yet the West Coast had

Western Iraq, except for they had an element in Baghdad.

And then the East Coast had Eastern Iraq, except for they had an element in Ramadi.

And you can already see this doesn't make much sense, right?

So as the two commanding officers were getting ready to deploy, they talked about it and were like, wait a second, why do we have our forces kind of disjointed?