how often would guys take shots in their body armor or helmet all the time this happened all the time and uh when we were in that urban combat in all sustained combat day after day after day both for for us and charlie platoon and in our sister platoon delta platoon that was operating on the other side of the city it was just did this happen regularly i mean we had guys uh you know on patrol with a camelback you know and you know the camelbak’s got is a water bladder on the back you wear the backpack it’s got the little hose tube that you can you can drink water on on the move guys no no water is backpack realize later round went through it i mean you’re talking inches away you know from his back we had multiple guys shot in the plates uh front plate back plate um and got one one of our guys peeking up over the rooftop during a big gunfight bam takes takes uh all of a sudden he felt like somebody punched him in the face and uh kind of falls back down below the roof and kind of gets up wondering what’s happening and takes off his helmet looks his helmet realizes he’s been shot in his night vision mount uh which meant that that round came in directly you know at his face hit his hit his night vision mounted ricocheted up had it hit just you know millimeters lower it would have taken his head off so that happened all the time and and i i i’m sure jocko you remember this many times i would we would come back from up park our homies i’d walk in the door i was gonna check him with jocko let him know you know what what what happened out there what’s going on you know what’s what’s happening you know uh now you know are there other ops we need to get reloaded for things to think about walking in his office and first thing i would generally say was god is a frog man god’s a frog man he’s looking out for us i don’t know how we made it out of that without losing guys or you know this was so many close calls uh and it was just a constant thing all the time wear your body armor wear your helmet yeah we we always had guys on our and you’ve talked about this in the podcast before but my first appointment we would have guys that would wear body armor that was like like six inches by six minimalistic bodies tiny little body armor nobody uh you know and and in ramadi getting those kind of gunfights everyone was like hey can we get a little bigger place some guys wanted to cut their helmets into half shells before we got there after we got there it was like no no i’m not cutting my own yeah some of the artists get a little more some of the army guys they would have the full they look like almost like knights the crotch protector the cross protector the collars the arm sleeves the side sappy plates they they were covered up good on them because they were uh you know taking real risks out there so yeah but you know jody medic and i when he was on here we had a little conversation about body armor they didn’t open expected to be in a certain spot they weren’t there they didn’t have body armor helmets on and he you know he’s sitting here saying i wish that would have had him so wear your body armor wear your helmet all the time
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