466: Some Lessons Are Learned By Getting Smacked In The Face. With Lt. James Lechner
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This is Jonko Podcast number four sixty six with Echo Charles and me, Jonko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. And also joining us once again is retired. Army Lieutenant Colonel Jim Lechner, who was a Ranger. in the battle detailed in the book and movie Blackhawk Down, who wrote about his own experiences in a book called With my shield, an army ranger in Somalia, which we covered on our last podcast, number four sixty five. If you haven't listened to that podcast, go back and check that one out.
Jim Lechner fought in that battle. Led in that battle. Called in. fire support during that battle, was eventually wounded. pretty severely in that battle, but that was not the end of his career through the incredible work of our
military medical system. His leg was saved and he carried on with his career. And I eventually served alongside him in the Battle of Ramadi. In two thousand six.
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