This is Jocco Podcast number 72 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, I go.

Good evening.

Sir, casualties are inbound. One of the myths has been hit hard and we have casualties headed to

Fallujah's surgical. My head snapped up from my work. I quickly strapped on my nine millimeter

and headed off to Fallujah's surgical. The level two trauma and surgical facility on Camp Fallujah

servicing the casualties and medical needs of the eastern portion of Al-Awan bar province in Iraq.

I had made a habit of going to the operating rooms to see and encourage the wounded whenever I was

in the command post of two expedition, two marine expeditionary force, MF, forward at Fallujah.

My aid ban and I made our way through the maze of buildings and walls of the camp,

something told me to hurry. I quickened my pace, then began to run. I hadn't done this before,

and I'm sure my aid was wondering what was up. As we rounded the corner of the hospital,

I could see the up-armored humvees of the mid team and the Marines themselves standing near the

entrance. They had their hands on their hips and their heads were down. This is bad, I thought.

One of the Marines was lifting a set of body armor from the floor of a humvee and it was covered with

and dripping blood. I quickly cleared my weapon at the clearing barrel and stepped into the facility.

The medical personnel had become accustomed to my presence on these occasions and quickly briefed

me on the situation. Several wounded, one very seriously, and the survivors were down the corridor

in an office. I hustled down to the office and quickly got a situation report from the team leader

and others of whom was wounded and awaiting treatment. It had been a bad ambush and the Marines had

fought for their lives alongside the Iraqi troops they were advising. Then looking up at me,

with an anguish you can only find in combat, the team leader said to me in a hush tone,

we think Travis is dead. I didn't immediately connect the name, but I knew I needed to get down the

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