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

—with their substantial firepower. Additional forces from the battalion
were brought in to reinforce Team Bulldog in this effort.
Through dozens of dangerous combat operations, we had built an
excellent working relationship with the U.S. Soldiers and tankers of
Team Bulldog. Bulldog’s company commander was one of the finest
combat leaders I have known. He and his Soldiers were exceptional
warriors. Our SEALs had tremendous respect and admiration for their
courage and fighting spirit as they lived everyday under constant attack,
right in the heart of dangerous enemy territory. Our SEAL elements
worked out of COP Falcon and from there pushed even deeper into
enemy territory. When we were ferociously attacked by insurgents,
which was often, the company commander personally mounted up in his
tank, rallied his troops, and brought the thunder with the main guns of
Team Bulldog’s M1A2 Abrams tanks to bear on our behalf. He and his
Bulldog Soldiers were an outstanding group, eager to close with and
destroy the enemy, and we loved them for it.
On this particular cordon and search operation, our SEALs from
Charlie Platoon and Task Unit Bruiser would provide sniper overwatch,
while our SEAL combat advisors would manage a platoon of Iraqi
soldiers participating in the clearance on the ground. Jocko teamed up
with the Army battalion’s operations officer, who would help manage
the clearance, while Jocko would provide command and control as well
as coordination of our SEAL elements supporting the operation.
In planning, we decided to set up two separate SEAL sniper
overwatch positions several hundred meters apart to cover the U.S. Army
and Iraqi Army cordon and search teams as they entered buildings block
by block across the sector. The first SEAL sniper overwatch position,
OP1, led by Charlie Platoon’s assistant officer-in-charge, would take