536: Ramadi: Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and The Return. w/ William "Spanky" Gibson
4/15/20263 hr 45 min
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A Marine’s journey through Ramadi, the realities of combat, and the strength required to return after devastating injury. A conversation about duty, brotherhood, and enduring hardship.
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First 90 secondsJocko Willink· Host0:00
This is Jocko Podcast number 536 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo.
Echo Charles· Co-host0:05
Good evening.
Jocko Willink· Host0:05
After the Fallujah offensive, the Americans tried to quell the insurgency in Ramadi with a combination of political maneuvers and the cooperation of tribal leaders to root out foreign Islamist fighters. But that plan has spectacularly fallen apart. The men who dared to ally themselves with the Americans quickly learned that the US military couldn't protect them. Insurgents killed 70 of Ramadi's polif- police recruits in January, and at least half a dozen high-profile tribal leaders have been assassinated since then. Ramadi has become a town where anti-American guerrillas operate openly and city bureaucrats are afraid to acknowledge their job titles for fear of being killed. The government center in downtown Ramadi comes under gunfire or mortar attacks daily. And that right there is an article titled Fear of Big Battle Panics Iraqi City. It was dated 11 June, 2006. It's from the Los Angeles Times, written by Megan K. Stack and Louise Roug. And we've heard from quite a few people on this podcast that fought in Ramadi in 2005 and 2006 and 2007, and there's one common theme that comes out of those conversations, and that is the relationships that we formed