This is Jaco podcast number 89 with echo Charles and me Jaco Willink. Good evening echo. Good evening. I

Was sitting in my tactical operation center in Ramadi

Alone I

was staring at a document on my computer and I had to keep wiping tears from my face as I read it

The document had been submitted to me by the Delta Platoon commander

There was an award recommendation

for Michael Montsor and the award was the Medal of Honor for Mikey

He had been sitting on an outcropping of a roof in South Ramadi on an Overwatch and a grenade

Which had been thrown from an unseen location to actually hit him in the chest and fell to the ground in front of him

And he could have jumped away from the grenade and he could have saved himself

But if you had done that his teammates that were positioned next to him they would have been exposed to that blast

So instead of moving away from the grenade Mikey jumped on the grenade

He smothered it and he absorbed its lethal explosion thereby saving our teammates

And at the same time he was able to get the same amount of information

And he was able to get the same information from the grenade

And he was able to get the same information from the grenade

And he was able to get the same information from the grenade

The morning that had happened September 29th 2006

was the first of the 2006 outstanding officer and leader that I respected and admired

And this element from Delta Platoon had been in the field receiving fire and returning fire most in the morning

Which was nothing new or nothing unusual but it had escalated and I knew that there had been trouble and when the Colonel called me

He told me that there had been a bad fight

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