This is Jocco podcast number 241 with echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, echo. Good evening.

I was the number one man on the door in my train, which meant I would be the first man into the room.

Missions often included debates as to who would get to go first.

All these guys were fearless and like to train hop to the front of the stack, the most dangerous place to be first into a room.

Seals loved to fight. We all want to be the first into the fight, and every seal is willing to accept the greater risk, especially for his buddies' sake.

I had no apprehension about the possibility of my own death. My concern was for my platoon mates. While I can't speak for everyone, their actions this night proved they all felt the same way.

Clarky and I looked at each other. He smiled back at me.

We had practiced this maneuver a thousand times, and it successfully done it on hundreds of missions just like this one.

There was no rush of adrenaline or anxiety. We were composed, relaxed, and professional.

We would simultaneously breach our respective doors and go to work clearing the rooms of enemy fighters and other potential threats.

We launched on the signal a mutual wave of our rifle barrels. I breached the door to my room. It swung open to the right.

I followed the door in as it opened, looked down the right wall, and saw it was clear.

As I pivoted off my right foot to move down the left wall, I had the sensation that my body was being slammed with a dozen sledgehammers.

My entire body was now in the room, and the men behind me in my room clearing train were attempting to follow me in.

The room was small, 12 feet by 12 feet. My night vision goggles illuminated the darkness, and I saw in clear view four of our targets aiming at me.

All of them armed with automatic weapons, and all of them firing at me.

That right there is an excerpt from a book called Perfectly Wounded by a retired seal named Mike Day.

I knew Mike when he was a young seal. He was maybe 10 classes ahead of me going through basic seal training.

He started his career at Seal Team 3. I started my Seal Career next door. I don't know, 50 meters away, 100 meters away over at Seal Team 1.

We crossed paths on what was my first appointment. We'd see each other around from time to time.

He was always very cool to me. From what I could tell, always cool to everyone. Nice guy. No ego, no attitude.

And on the day that Mike writes about in that book, those insurgents that were shooting at him, they hit their mark.

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