481: Deeds. Not Words. With Airborne Ranger, Will Bardenwerper

This is Jocko Podcast number four eighty one with Echo Charles and me, Joco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. In January two thousand six, I stepped off a C one thirty in Talifar, Iraq. As I began my thirteen month deployment, I imagined an American public following our progress with the same concern as my family and friends. But since we're turning home. I've seen that America has changed the channel.

Young investment bankers spend their impressive bonuses on clubs in Manhattan, and s many seem uninterested in the soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Princeton graduate and former financial analyst I was once part of this world. And I like returning to it. Putting the Spartan life of Talifar and Anbar province behind me.

But even as I enjoy time with friends who have welcomed me home, my thoughts wander back to other friends. Who continue to fight. As the city parties on. Serious problems with the war in Iraq are well chronicled. But I am struck by one that does not seem to trouble the country's leadership.

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