235: Setting the Conditions for Victory. w/ Gen. John Gronski From The 2-28

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:09:51 - General John Gronski.

2:49:51 - How to stay on THE PATH.

3:08:18 - Closing Gratitude

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0:00.0	This is Jocco podcast number 235 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.
0:06.0	Good evening, Echo.
0:07.0	Good evening.
0:11.0	Kawi Mayerl.
0:15.0	One of my brothers.
0:18.0	Awesome guy.
0:19.0	Incredible seal.
0:20.0	But at one point in time, I didn't know if he would keep his leg.
0:31.0	The army, doctors, seemed neutral in their assessment.
0:37.0	And my assessment was that they actually didn't know.
0:42.0	And because they didn't know, my guess is they didn't want to get his hopes up.
0:49.0	But at the same time, they didn't want to crush his morale either.
0:59.0	Kawi is the seal that I wrote about in the opening of the book that I caught on me.
1:03.0	Leadership.
1:04.0	This is the seal that told me he wanted to stay.
1:08.0	He begged me to let him stay there in Ramadi with us.
1:15.0	He did not want to go home.
1:19.0	He wanted to stay with his platoon.
1:22.0	He wanted to stay with the task unit.
1:24.0	He wanted to stay with the soldiers and Marines that we were fighting alongside.
1:29.0	And he said,
1:31.0	I'm afraid he would have died.
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