Navy SEAL Jocko Willink Breaks Down More Combat Scenes From Movies Part 2 | GQ

at this point she's not doing a very good job because she's about to get killed she's not giving up any information what she should actually do is try and craft some kind of a story that stalls or prolongs her life hey this is Jocko willing I'm sitting in my podcast studio remotely and this is the breakdown first up is Saving Private Ryan obviously this scene is d-day the military really looked to bring a lot of people that didn't have combat experience to do the invasion on d-day because they knew that they needed some fresh mindsets going in that weren't going to be absolutely horrified but even with that you can tell from this that there's a lot of fear going on because they're going into a pretty hellacious situation you can see a lot of the guys are looking very nervous they're trying to capture that on the camera you see some of the guys that are actually throwing up and they could be throwing up from being nervous that can't happen but my guess is in this case most of these guys are throwing up because they're seasick they're not used to being on the water and they're going through rough seas your body starts to adapt to the motion of the ocean when you spend a lot of time on the water in boats but even going from a large ship which these guys have been on into smaller boats people that aren't used to it they can definitely get seasick and that's probably what's going on here in a navy vessel starboard side is as you're looking forward in the vessel it's the right hand side the port side is the left hand side so he's saying the stick which is just a group of people that are on the starboard side he's just given them instructions United States military is made up of multiple different branches you have the Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps in this scene right here you see Navy boats that are bringing US Army soldiers to the shore as soon as they hit the shore they're going to be doing what the army does while they're in the water they're doing what the Navy does you have to have a good relationship between the services in order to get the job done and they certainly are showing that here five men he's talking about right there he's saying keep your dispersion is what we call it means space yourselves out don't bunch up in a group if you're all together in a tight group you become an easy target for the enemy because they don't have to shoot very accurately and they'll hit one of you if you're in a group they shoot a burst of ammunition they could take out three four or five guys that are in that group what that sergeant is telling them is to keep your distance from each other so you make yourselves harder targets most of times we need to do some kind of an amphibious operation coming over the beach you're gonna get wet there's a chance that you could possibly stay dry but it's a pretty small chance it's one of the things that makes coming over the beach and amphibious operations so hard not only does it make you cold but it affects your gear your radios your weapons everything gets affected especially by saltwater it's a real challenge and it's something you have to contend with because it's gonna happen one of the things that makes Saving Private Ryan so realistic is that it doesn't shy away from showing the horrific graphic nature of war war is absolutely violence it's killing and it's death maiming human beings and it shows that really without any mercy in this opening scene this is actually a nightmare scenario coming across an open area which starts with the water and then goes onto the beach and you're facing elevated machine-gun positions from the enemy they're shooting down at you from a totally protected position so what are you doing a situation like that how do you face that well what you have to do and it's very counterintuitive is you have to move forward as a leader or as just one of these troops that's out there trying to survive this situation you might think I just want to stay here and hide I did I don't want to move but what you have to do is move and what that also means is if you are with one of your friends and they get hit you might not be able to help them and the best thing you can possibly do for them is to continue to advance that's what makes this scene so hard to watch guys are having to at that moment make a decision between staying with their friend and dying together or moving forward to try and accomplish the mission it's a horrible situation to be in the Navy had units that would go in to the beach and clear out obstacles it also go and try and clear out obstacles that were in the water on the beach before the invasion even starts the predecessors to the SEAL Teams were those guys on underwater demolition units and if you really want to get specific about it in the Battle of Tarawa over in the Pacific there was a operation that took place where the Marine Corps was taking that island and they hit a bunch of underwater reefs with the boats and the boats got held up on those reefs and so the Marines had to get out and they had to go across about 600 yards of water before they got to the beach and they took massive casualties it was a horrendous scene in the US military the Navy and the Marine Corps realized that we needed to have someone that could figure out what was under the water as they got close to the beach and if there was obstacles there than to get rid of them and so they formed up the Navy combat demolition units and those were the guys that eventually became the underwater demolition teams and those are the guys that eventually became the SEAL Teams the most important things about the US military and any good military organization is that they use something called decentralized command there's not some senior person at the top of the rank structure making every single decision for the people on the frontlines the people on the frontlines understand what it is that they're supposed to get done and then they go and do it by any means that they see fit so sometimes there might be a little conflict but as you can see Tom Hanks's character they have a little bit of a discussion but it lasts two sentences and then they move on and go and try and achieve the objective that's decentralized command and you see it in action there this scene depicts the incredible bravery that these soldiers had to storm forward facing a high percentage chance of them being killed or gravely wounded this is one of those epic battle scenes that again reflects the courage of the frontline soldiers next up we have Apocalypse Now [Music] the premise of this movie is that there's a guy Colonel Kurtz that has gone native gone rogue and the US military decides that he needs to be taken out and so they send a Special Forces soldier along with a bunch of Navy patrol boat personnel up to go and kill them this is a movie having someone go completely rogue like that is pretty unrealistic it would get picked up on and they'd be taken out of that situation and put into some place where they could recover and get a grip on reality again one of the things that was unique about Vietnam was the river system that were flowed throughout the country in the Mekong Delta in other areas you know they had what we called the brown water Navy the predecessor to the Special Boat teams which we now have was guys driving small boats that could push up into these enemy controlled areas and conduct operations and that's pretty much what is taking place in Apocalypse Now they've got a chief petty officer in charge of this vessel a chief petty officer in the Navy is a very proud rank they say in the Navy that Chiefs run the Navy Navy Chiefs are very experienced tactically they understand what the job is and they do what they need to do to get the job done [Music] you might be wondering well these guys are out on patrol they seem to be joking around they seem to be carefree you got to remember that anyone in the military SEALs included we're just people and people have lives and they've got girlfriends back home and they've got other things going on and they want to laugh and have a good time you know this would be obviously tactically unsound to light off a purple smoke and give your position away to the enemy and actually obscure the vision of the people that are on the boat that's a little bit unrealistic but for the fact that they are sort of relaxed because there's no actual combat taking place that can happen now depending on where you are you need to use caution and it certainly seems that in this scene they've allowed a little bit too much slack and they're about to get a rude awakening it's an ambush what you see kind of looks like fireworks and I think in fact they probably are fireworks I think what they're trying to simulate is tracer fire bullets that leave glowing red or glowing green in the air when they shoot it's a little unrealistic because you can tell that they don't have a lot of velocity when tracer rounds are coming at you they're moving a lot faster than these but I think that's just the limitations of special effects for this scene and then what you see is the reaction from the boat which is a pretty standard reaction what they do is as quickly as possible return a heavy volume of fire from their machine guns and try and move the boat out of the kill zone which is the area of the ambush where if you stay there you're gonna die as far as the weapons that they're using they're pretty standard vietnam-era weapons they've got some m60 machine guns they've got a dual mounted 50 caliber machine gun and they've got m16s that's what they used in Vietnam for sure the Vietnam War from the SEAL team perspective is those are the guys that really establish the reputation of the SEAL Teams by the operations that they conducted they just did an outstanding job taking the fight to the enemy in a very unconventional way the seals that raised me in the SEAL Teams some of them were the old Vietnam guys and that was an honor to be able to learn from them next GI Jane the premise of this movie is that there is a female that is going through SEAL training that has not happened before it looks like what they are attempting to portray is some kind of seer training which is survival evasion resistance and escape and it's training in case you're ever captured by the enemy in a time of war they start with being woken up with water being thrown honor when you go to sere school you're definitely going to experience all kinds of little minor aggravations just being in a seal platoon you're gonna get woken up by your buddies with water being thrown on you so that's something that everyone's going to experience they're trying to torment you mentally for two reasons one to make sure that you can kind of deal with the mental frustration of people bothering you and two because it's funny what is your father's name simple question lieutenant no reason not to answer unless you want to bleed what is your father's name dad they're showing her in a situation where she's being tied up as if she was a prisoner of war that's what they're trying to simulate and then you know they're gonna try and mimic what they think the prisoner of war might experience you know in sere school you're gonna be hungry you're gonna get slapped around you're gonna asked a bunch of questions in order to try and prepare you for those situations should they unfold why didn't you go yeah you wounded lieutenant was it too heavy it looks like the Master Chief is really being pretty brutal with a beatdown to the young lieutenant and I think it's just a lot of Hollywood activities going on there are limitations to what they can do to the students that are going through it but it's best for the training if people don't know what to expect when they get there so I actually don't want to talk too much in detail about it because it's an experience that hits people different ways the training is based on lessons learned from guys that were captured in Korea and Vietnam and what they learned from those horrible environments I'll just say that this movie doesn't seem very realistic go easy on women at this point it seems like they've got a little crazy sometimes they portray things a different way but you know the the SEAL Teams is a rough place to be beating a seal platoon or out of SEAL team or in the military in general it's a it's a harsh environment harsh things happen you might think that there's a technique to get through something like waterboarding but the bottom line is there's no technique for not being able to breathe you can breath hold for a little while maybe two minutes maybe three minutes but eventually you're gonna need air and you're gonna pass out it's just another method of making you uncomfortable and trying to get you used to being uncomfortable and they're also trying to show you that you have limitations eventually what you have to do is give some information so you can survive and that's acceptable and you do your best to resist and not give away information that could cost the lives of fellow service members but you also want to survive and so that's a tough bridge to gap one of the things that happened in previous wars is people felt like if they had broken that they were less of a man for breaking everyone has a breaking point and you need to understand how to contend with that psychologically you got some Toby at this point she's not doing a very good job because she's about to get killed she's not giving up any information what she should actually do is try and craft some kind of a story that stalls or prolongs her life the goal is to give enough information that you survive but not enough information that the enemy can actually act and if you're giving a little bit of information they think they can get more out of you then you can stay alive a little bit longer and hopefully make it out NASA chief seek life elsewhere [Music] [Applause] in the SEAL Teams you go through a lot of different schools and you pass a lot of different tests when you get done with one test what you do is you go on to the next one you finish that achievement and you move on there's no big celebration of making it through some block of training you just carry on and do your job Navy SEALs describe your method of entry came through a skylight and you had contact in the hallway one concurrently when you get done' with a mission you want to review how the mission went from a tactical perspective and see if there are any lessons learned no one's gonna remember every little thing that they did but hopefully when you take all the information from all the different individuals you can paint a pretty good picture of what happened and once you get done with that then you do a intelligence debrief to make sure you've gathered good information and that information will then get disseminated through the intelligence community so that they can put all the pieces of intelligence together to get broader knowledge of the enemy there are actions that the objective area under the room in this third position would love to run when you go into a room obviously you all can't go into the room at the exact same moment so the first person goes in that's the number one person the second person that goes in is the number two person the third person that goes in is the number three person it goes right on down the line so that's all it is there's no rocket science there and then he did a normal room entry and swept from left to right so pilot had serious internal injuries i stabilized him prepared to move that's good at the fan the primary LZ was aborted I covered their movement to the secondary the primary LZ is the primary landing zone if you're taking down a target or you're conducting an operation when you leave you're gonna go get picked up somewhere the first place you plan to go get picked up by helicopters is called the primary landing zone and if that one is fouled for whatever reason there's enemy there or there's some problem with it then you'll move on to the secondary and then if that one's got a problem you'll move on to the tertiary so in this particular scene they tried to go to the primary landing zone LZ and there was a problem with it so they apparently moved to the secondary you engage hustles I'm vaporize hostiles when you're in the military you follow the rules of engagement and rules of engagement do shift depending on the situation the rules of engagement definitely allow you to defend yourself and the mission if you shoot your weapon and somebody that's acting in a hostile manner it's really no factor oh by the way thanks for the hot tip on 100 we in Canada you're soft targets make sure wonder why they call it and tell us when he's describing a soft target that's generally a description of a target that you think is gonna be pretty easy to take down meaning there's not gonna be a lot of resistance whereas a hard target would you'd be expecting resistance and maybe some fortified positions regardless soft target or hard target you got to prepare for some kind of a worst-case scenario you gotta have contingencies to handle on any target even if you go in thinking it's gonna be soft it could go hard you have to anticipate that it could that was just the breakdown from GQ thanks for watching

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Published: Tue May 26 2020

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These are great. Jocko should do whole movies just explaing war films to echo. Echo could then explain roadhouse to Jocko

[u/Infantry1stLt]

@11:05

[u/RogerPackinrod]

I like how he seems to be so pissed off that he's doing these.

[u/Icanus]

How can you not cover hell week while talking about GI Jane? :(

[u/killer_by_design]

His first one was so great..I love this series of videos but fuck me are his so much more insightful.