561: The Art Of Command. Action, Initiative, and Judgement.

This is Jonko podcast number 561 with Echo Charles and me, Jonko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So General Melvin Zeiss was born May of 1916 in Fall River, Massachusetts, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1937. He spent some time in the reserves after doing the ROTC program, got his commission, and then he was brought into active duty.

Guess what? World War II. WWII immediately volunteered for a parachute trooper unit, um, assigned to the f the the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. Also spent time at the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment, as we know, very fond of the of the Parachute Infantry regiments, of course.

He fought in Italy, southern France, Battle of Bulges, and then the Korean War, he served as a military advisor to a Turkish brigade brigade. And then in Vietnam he was the commanding commanding general of the 101st, also the commanding general of the 24th Corps in Vietnam. So this guy had a bunch of very high-ranking um military leadership positions, but started off on the front in a bunch of time in combat. He eventually was promoted to the four-star general, appointed to the commander Allied Land Forces Southeastern Europe, which is

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