This is Jocko podcast number 439 with echo Charles and me jocko willink good evening echo good evening

I felt like I had no life in Ramadi I cannot describe the horror we lived in. Those were very bitter days. Those days we lived in hell.

We looked like ghosts out of a cemetery. We were very tired. We had lots of complaints to take to coalition forces, but we were afraid.

Some days we wished to be dead just to be rested.

On the streets, they accused Americans of being killers.

People welcomed Al-Qaeda into their homes as a custom,

but they killed families, raped wives wives and took over.

If one of them killed 60 people he was called a mirror.

They killed doctors and leaders. They killed doctors and leaders.

They killed doctors and said that it was because they treated Americans.

The doctors fled the country.

They killed Mulaws and said that it was because they liked Americans.

Soon there were no men left to kill, so they started killing women and children.

They killed women and said that was because their husbands were policemen.

They killed children and said it was because their fathers were policemen.

Fear made me very cautious.

Sometimes if a door opened an entire family was killed, old people, women and children.

I had four huge locks on my front door.

It looked like a protected holy place.

I would only open the door for family. I was afraid of the

coalition forces and the insurgents. I used to leave the house at 6 a.m.

before 7 a.m. there was a Coalition Forces curfew after 7 a.m.

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