474: Building More United Communities. With Force Recon Marine, Jake Harriman

This is Jocko Podcast number 474 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. It is early morning April 2003. The fog is lifting along Highway 7 in southern Iraq.

A small car blazes up the road. Jake Harriman, the platoon commander, fires a warning shot. The driver of the car immediately bolts from it, frantically waving his hands and starts sprinting towards Harriman's position. Harriman's face and those of his men are as drawn and depleted as the vast rock desert that surrounds them. Taking the man for yet another suicide bomber, they train their sights on him.

As they do, another vehicle, a black truck, roars up, weapons shredding the man's car like Sonny Corleone's Lincoln Continental and The Godfather. The man screams and turns back. Harriman orders his men to open fire on the truck. The six Fedayin members of Saddam's brutal special forces have no chance against the overwhelming American firepower. But it's too late.

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