Jocko Willink
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And that was it.
Going to Ramadi.
Yeah.
I mean, there was sustained fighting every day.
Like there was soldiers and Marines getting wounded and killed every day.
And this isn't a big area.
Ramadi is not a big city.
It's small.
IEDs were totally out of control.
So you had a pretty good idea what you were walking into.
100%.
Yeah.
Well, not 100% because there's still some things you're going to learn, but I knew what was happening.
Again, thankfully, I had done that deployment to Baghdad.
I had experience as an enlisted SEAL.
working for the Admiral, like these are all things that helped me understand.
It was like I was just a little bit ahead of the power curve.
You know what I mean?
Just enough ahead of the power curve.
You know, did you ever get rolled back in buds?