Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

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happens. I made all kinds of mistakes when I led SEALs. Often, my subordinate leadership would pick ...

Bruiser SEALs take the high ground, South-Central Ramadi. Charlie Platoon’s point man and lead sniper, Chris ...

CHAPTER 4 Check the Ego Jocko Willink CAMP CORREGIDOR, RAMADI, IRAQ: WELCOME TO RAMADI Enemy tracer rounds wer ...

personnel were on the rooftop shooting back. Some SEALs had brought their M4 rifles, others M79 40mm gren ...

the most dangerous place in Iraq, accounting for the majority of U.S. casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom ...

sudden barrage of accurate, devastating machine gun fire from multiple directions, which hammered the American ...

concussion, but the enemy could not get close enough to U.S. forces, protected behind sandbags and concret ...

and efficient, always watching, analyzing, and looking for weaknesses to exploit. If U.S. forces were to win i ...

a mark. We had figured out how to position ourselves on the high ground where we could do the most damag ...

For our relatively small group of about thirty-six SEALs, the number of enemy fighters killed on a daily b ...

colonel, an extremely smart, charismatic, and professional officer who set the standard for military leaders. ...

elsewhere, the SEALs at Camp Corregidor cropped their hair short, shaved every day, and even ...

wire,” I told my SEAL platoon commander bluntly. Our enemies were the insurgents lurking in the city of Ram ...

the local populace or with the foreign military units they are working with. In some cases, such an ...

coordinate plans and be ready to support each other. Here the constant threat from a large-scale enemy att ...

battlespace, such lack of coordination could well mean a death sentence. The SEAL platoon comma ...

attributed directly to a problem with ego. Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and ...

Jocko and I had spoken to Gary by phone several times over the past few months and helped him solve some ...