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

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The Importance of Situational Awareness

I was proud I was a fleet commander for a couple of days because General Petraeus Chopped the change of operational control chopped the fleet assets to me Even though I was actually in Afghanistan and of course what people have trouble understanding is My situational awareness by the time this is go my situational awareness in Afghanistan was almost as good in terms of the bigger picture. We weren't always successful and we had some some ops that went south on us But I wouldn't change anything about the way we had set up the organization to Empower the guys, you know at that level to make the decisions and take the actions Yeah, whoever you happen to be You take you take the tackling of this and and you'll

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