This is Jocko Podcast number 479 with Echo Charles and me, Jocker Willink. Good evening, Ego.

Good evening.

For extraordinary heroism and an outstanding performance of duty in action against the enemy in Afghanistan from October 2001 to March 2002, during its six-month existence, Task Force K-Barr was the driving force behind myriad combat missions conducted

in combined joint operations area Afghanistan.

These precedent-setting and extremely high-risk missions included search and rescue,

non-compliant boardings of high-interest vessels, special reconnaissance, sensitive site exploitation,

direct action missions, apprehension of military and political detainees, destruction of multiple

cave and tunnel complexes, identification and destruction of several known al-Qaeda training

camps, explosions of thousands of pounds of enemy ordinance, and successful

coordination of unconventional warfare operations for Afghanistan.

The sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines, and coalition partners of combined joint special

operations task force South Task Force Kbar set an unprecedented 100% mission success rate across a broad spectrum of special operations missions while operating under extremely difficult and constantly dangerous conditions.

They established benchmark standards of professionalism, tenacity, courage, tactical brilliance, and professional

excellence while demonstrating superb esprit of core and maintaining the highest measure of combat

readiness.

By their outstanding courage, resourcefulness, and aggressive fighting spirit in combat against

a well-equipped,

well-trained, and treacherous terrorist enemy, the officers and enlisted personnel of combined

joint special operations task force K-bar reflected great credit upon themselves and upheld

the highest traditions of the United States Armed Forces.

And that right there is an excerpt from the Presidential Unit Citation for Task Force,

K-Barr, which represented some of the first troops on the ground in Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

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