The Utilitarian Calculus of Jockey's Mission

Jocko's boss advised him not to go out on a mission if you think you might lose someone. Jocko was doing the utilitarian calculus is this worth doing and his response was basically sir it doesn't matter what the mission is no mission will be worth me losing any man over now that would seem to cause him to be impotent in the face of doing anything while he was in Iraq fighting terrorists and fighting warlords. The measure of the mission is not whether or not it's possible but rather whether we do the job which quite right so this isn't now other people will come along and say oh yes but reallyreally you can do the utilitarian calculus from the god die perspective.