512: Into the Delta. Charlie Platoon, SEAL Missions in Vietnam. With Hal Kuykendal and Tom Boyhan

This is Jocko Podcast number 512 with me, Jocko Willink. One of the few daytime operations we went on took place on Dung Island. We got information that the VC were operating a factory that built junks. We went there to blow the thing up. Mike Thornton was driving the Boston whaler, and as usual, we wanted to get in there quietly.

We were in this little bitty canal that went right down alongside the junk factory. We were running on a single engine to make less noise, but it was really hard to drive the whaler when you didn't have enough speed. They just didn't go where you wanted them to. We kept running into the brush, and finally, since we were making so much racket, we decided to gas it. and get on down there.

We gassed it and we were just going balls to the walls. I saw the VC at the junk factory and they were not running for cover. They were just looking up the canal like they heard something and they were thinking, what in the hell is that? They were shocked when they saw us and started running everywhere. But before we got out of there, we ended up in a big gunfight.

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