502: Crazy Horse: Courage, Loss, and the Fight in Iraq. With Pilot, Dan McClinton

This is Jocko Podcast No. 502 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. By the end of February, the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade had participated in 32 separate engagements with the enemy that month.

We had lost two aircraft, with many others damaged as well. Worst of all, we had lost four fine officers men who were sons, brothers, and fathers, men whose loss we mourn to this day. We came away from that month changed. There were lessons learned, things that we probably should have seen before, but either pride or stubbornness didn't allow us to. But we mourned, learned, and moved on.

It was all we could do. It may sound cliche or corny, but we owed it to them to keep going. It is what they would have done. And that right there is an excerpt from a book called Crazy Horse, a Flying Apache Attack Helicopters with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq, 2006 to 2007. And it was written by Daniel M.

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