534: Soldiers, SEALs, and Ramadi. Leading In The Most Challenging Combat Environment. With Company Commander, Jason Pelletier
4/1/20263 hr 25 min
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A U.S. Army infantry officer forged by a brutal childhood and hardened in the Battle of Ramadi, Jason Pelletier shares how his unit fought, adapted, and passed on hard-earned lessons that helped keep SEALs and soldiers alive in one of Iraq’s most violent cities.
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First 90 secondsJocko Willink· Host0:00
This is Jocko Podcast number 534 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo.
Jason Pelletier· Guest0:05
Good evening.
Jocko Willink· Host0:05
365 dawns carved us a hollow until we became strangers wearing familiar faces to the families we left behind. Dawn by dawn until the ground we held lived within us as much as we lived within it. A different kind of becoming. Survival evolved instinct into intelligence. We learned to hear threat in the absence of children's laughter, to taste menace in a sea of glances. We felt danger in the wrongness of an afternoon shadow. We were students of each other's breaking points. We had trust. When everything went sideways, we could remain steady. Our faithful judgment the last thing standing when solutions failed. By the end, we carried the city with us, every building a reminder of families caught between our mission and our enemy. Every intersection, the memory of a friend gone. Every smell, a moment shared with death. The terrible alchemy of the experience making us unbreakable,