566: Leading Through Chaos. Lessons From the Battle of Ramadi with The 1st of The 506th Band Of Brother. With General Ron Clark

This is Jonko Podcast number five sixty six. With Echo Charles and me, Jonko Willing. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. Terrorist infested Ramadi. in the wild west of Iraq is for US troops the meanest place in the country. There's no better place to observe American troops and the fledgling Iraqi army in combat. They packed me off to Camp Corregidor in Eastern Ramadi.

with the first battalion five hundred and sixth infantry regiment. Hundred and first Airborne Division. The five o six official motto is Curahee. Cherokee for stands alone.

But they're better known as the Band of Brothers. The sheer scale of violence in Romadi is astounding, wrote AP's Todd Pittman after spending time with several units there. One recent coalition tally of significant acts. Roadside bombs, attacks, exchanges of fire indicated that out of forty three significant acts reported in Iraq on a single day. twenty seven of those occurred in Ramadi.

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