In this chapter, the author describes a scenario where he was the commanding officer responsible for overseeing a military operation. He arrived at a situation where another officer was bombarding a house full of enemy militants. He was about to call in an airstrike to level the subject building when the author identified some inconsistencies within his own troops movements that directed him to investigate further. He approached the house and discovered that it was his own men in the house. The scenario prompting the bombardment of the house was friendly fire between his squad and a friendly Iraqi soldier. He dismissed the men from the house, who were taken away in a friendly armored vehicle. As a result of the incident, an internal investigation was filed. In the author’s own investigation of the incident in preparation for a presentation, he had difficulty assigning blame on any of the people at play. He decides the blame is on him. Before sharing the report with his squad, he goes around the room asking who’s fault it was. After a period of silence, each member volunteers that it was them who failed, and provided an explanation as to why they thought this. In each case, the author denies that it was them, and asks again. Afterwards, he tells them that it was his fault. He then vows that he would never allow something like this to happen again.