Jocko Willink

What about the pressure?

Yeah, the pressure I felt was just wanting to do a good job.

You know, not wanting to do anything, not wanting to... I wouldn't say not make any mistakes, because I was not a risk-averse person, you know?

Like, I recognized that if you roll out on an operation, things can go wrong.

And I understood that, and I understood that risk.

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.