This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode six with Darrell Cooper and me, Jocco Willink.

So

I'm

coming home

leaving this place of

turmoil and chaos that has escalated throughout my deployment in

2003-2004 and on my way home

actually was before I left my commanding officer who I've referenced a bit

who I was friends with. You know he told me that his last mission as the commander of

Seal Team 7 was going to be to make me the admiral's aid and the reason that he wanted to do it was

a good reason. Primarily because I was a platoon commander that was coming off the battlefield in Iraq.

There was for a six month deployment and so I was sort of the most combat experienced

lieutenant in the Navy that was available for that type of ability. So it was a good move.

Let's get the boss, let's get the admiral, some guys that are a guy that's fresh off the battlefield

that's done a bunch of missions that can talk to him and explain to him what's happening and

give him the support that he needs. And it was you know it's a move that he wanted to take care of me

too because when you're the admiral's aid you know you develop a relationship with the admiral and

you meet every single other Seal Admiral and every single Seal Captain and every single Seal Commander.

And so you know you build a bunch of really good relationships. You get to know people in the

community and you get to see what the community's like. So I imagine there was an element of yeah he

wants to help you out in your career but also next time you go back to Iraq he wants you to

recharge more than a platoon. Yeah I'd say maybe but I don't I don't think that was really what it was.

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