This is Jocco Podcast number 158 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Wylink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

There was blood all over the floor and smoke in the air.

I heard shots fired outside, but I wasn't quite sure who was shooting or what they were shooting at.

I moved down the hallway, confirming that all the rooms had been cleared.

I soon found the source of the blood.

I wounded Iraqi civilian on whom I sealed hospital corpsman.

A highly trained combat medic was working to apply medical care.

And that's just a short little opening from chapter 2 of the book, The Decademy Leadership,

that I wrote with my brother, Laf Babin.

And in that chapter, I go on to explain how during this operation in Fallujah, Iraq,

we went on to detain multiple suspected terrorists that night.

And I don't go into much detail about that.

And I don't talk about the people that we captured.

I think we took, I think we took about 13 people off target military aged males.

We were probably looking for two or three. We couldn't figure out or confirm who they were.

So we brought all the military aged males off target.

And so we end up at this detention facility and we're turning these individuals over.

And I'm sitting there kind of just looking at them, sizing them up.

This is one of the earliest operations I had done in my life.

It was the first big operation I did in Iraq.

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