486: Warfare: The Missions, The Men, and The Movie. W/ Elliott Miller and Joe Hildebrand.
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This is Jocko podcast number 486 with me, Jocko Willink. In October of 2006, Task Unit Bruiser was turning over with our replacements from SEAL Team 5. And Leif had been at Team 5 and had just deployed with Team 5, and Tony had been at Team 5, and, you know, it's the team, so we kind of know some of their boys and their task unit. But it was definitely going to be a different type of turnover because it had been a different type of deployment. And the guys from Team Five had been back in San Diego reading the after action reports for months.
And they had read about what had been happening in Ramadi, the enemy contacts, the gunfights, the killing, the casualties, the enemy casualties, and of course the the friendlies killed in action and wounded in action. And these guys from Team Five had Many of them gone to the funerals and memorial services for our guys from Task in a bruiser. And when they showed up, of course, we wanted to stay longer. We wanted to keep fighting, but that's not the way it works.
And we spent, I don't know, a couple weeks downloading as much information as we could to them, trying to give them a good turnover. And and I remember the first kind of full muster when all the guys, because guys come guys show up in theater in in bits and pieces in many cases. So it was like the first full muster of the Team 5 task unit. And I was we were kind of giving the official turnover brief and I was talking about the op tempo and I was talking about the relationships with the Army and the Marine Corps and how important those were and I was talking about the strategic impact of the battle.
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