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290: Sea Stories and Tales of Terror, with Admiral William McRaven

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The Importance of Being a Task Unit Commander

When I left the XO back then the executive officers a lot of times would go do and be the task unit commander for a deployed You know steel platoon on an amphibious ready group. So we kind of immediately got tasked to head out to the Gulf Had a chance to interdict do some maritime interdiction operations, which were a lot of fun considering that Those were kind of the first of their kind that's the big mesh back there. We took Felaka Island Which it was actually very interesting again a good lesson for me. The island had been bombed for like a hundred straight days Were 1200 Iraqi officers are officers enlisted on the Felaka Island because it was a key position before you

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