Justified, Season 6

Ty Walker:
Choo-Choo's a rock. He'd never give us up.

Avery Markham:
Not on purpose. Feds have got guys that spend their whole lives tying people in knots—

Ty Walker:
I'm not— [pauses] Choo-Choo and I were in the sandbox together.

Avery Markham:
I know.

Ty Walker:
I was in the Humvee right behind his when he got blown up. I.E.D. flipped them over, then landed on our hood. Crushed their gunner like a bug on our windshield. Choo-Choo's in the captain's seat. [laughs bitterly] We got that door open... You wouldn't think anybody could be alive in there. Medics picking splinters of the driver's bones out of his face. He lives through that? No.

Avery Markham:
One morning when I was in the Corps, we found a dead Cong who'd stepped in a punji pit in the dark. Thing about punji sticks, they're not meant to kill. A dead soldier reduces the force against you by one, but a wounded soldier slows down a whole unit. Cong used to cover their stakes with human shit, make the wounds infect. But rather than being a drag on his comrades, make them carry him back, this feller just decided to put a gun in his mouth.

Ty Walker:
One man dies so the others can live.

Avery Markham:
Anybody can run a peacetime command. Real leadership's about making the hard choices.