533: Vietnam '68-War, Life, Leadership, and Loss w Marine NCO Jack W. Jaunal

This is Jocko Podcast number 533 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. The place is staging battalion, Marine Corps base, Camp Pendleton, California. Most of them are in their teens, privates, privates first class and Lance Corporals.

Among them are the corporals and sergeants, not much older, breaking into their twenties. They come in all shapes and sizes, all hours of the day. Most of them are young, the new breed of Marines, on their way to Vietnam. Sprinkled among this group are the old salts, Marines with many years of service on their record books.

Many are veterans of our last war, Korea. For them, this will be their second war. For a few, like me, it's war number three. My thoughts rolled back over the years, twenty-four years of soldiering. Twenty five if I counted that part time bit in the State Guard.

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