553: Becoming Brothers Through Battle, Death, and Honor in Ramadi. With Miguel "Pitbull" Santana.
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This is Joco Podcast number five fifty three with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Our four months in Talifar were a necessary brutal baptism by fire. We learn to read the dust. Respond to the ambush, and trust the discipline forged in the face of constant danger. But Talafar.
Ramadi. Was the crucible. I remember the briefing was the fault line. Our orders changed. We are going to Ramady.
The moment before and after which Nothing would be quite the same. We sat with fragments of the mission, unaware of how thoroughly the months ahead would hollow us out and rebuild us, or how deeply they would forge the ties between us. The order came down. Say nothing to your families until the movement was complete.
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