516: The Fat Electrician & Veteran With a Sign Talk Military Service, Life, and Putting Out Word.

This is Jocko Podcast number 516 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. You may notice that things have changed since you left. Family may have grown older, friends may have moved, and familiar places may look unfamiliar.

That's as it should be. After all, you've changed too. Civilian life. with its own duties and pleasures, now offers the chance for a new beginning built on the foundation of your service and sacrifice. And that right there is an excerpt from a military pamphlet that was issued by the War Department and the Navy Department in August of 1945.

And the pamphlet is called Going Back to Civilian Life. And it's a very when you look through the entire manual, it's actually a very positive spin on coming home from an absolutely brutal war. And that paragraph right there is about all they have to say about the what the transition is going to be like from a like a mental perspective, a psychological perspective. Because the rest of the pamphlet is just, you know, talking about your military records and your taxes and your family allowances and allotments and wearing your uniform and when you can and when you can't and how to how to get good insurance and the change of beneficiaries and getting a government job and other just kind of like mundane administrative information that you probably didn't care much about when you were coming home from Iwo Jima.

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