Jocko Podcast 181 w/ John Stryker Meyer: On The Ground in Vietnam. Mayem and Bravery. 

t sam thank you for your service and welcome home

T Sam you should reach out to Jocko. Would love to hear the stories!

@@fish4kbcf Well BWB, I am somewhat chagrined by the fact that many of my memories of 70-72 when I was in the 20th SOS, are quite tenuous. I don't know that I would have a lot to comment on.

@@Tsamokie Either way, we're grateful & thankful to you

@@mq9893 Thanks qh.

Sad but true.

100% right rofl I have been online since it started hardcore early World of warcraft player and pretty much learned at a early age that everything and everyone on the internet is a troll but this comment section doesn't feel like the internet lol so let me fuck that up... FUCK YOU FUCK AMERICA! lol

Facts lol

I noticed that myself. While other comments sections on other channels are soap boxes for the stupid, this place doesn't suffer those fools.

Yea, it’s out of deep dn respect and fear of Alphas, used be you gv civil respect, to everyone, now takes “trained killers”, lol, our treasured American Heroes, to get that respect, most of net is rudeness crude, nice change... I’m grateful for these Podcasts..

I like that aspect as well...in these podcasts as well as the one with the Frenchman. id like to know more about the locals that helped them. Both on the ground and in the air

I know some big guys and some little guys, the Khmer I know have 3 loads of heart. Much respect.

@BitchesKnowAbout MuhPatriarchy +1 i was going to say the same thing

Call me a people snob, but detonating a hand grenade in a crowd of people who kicked your ass in a card game does not constitute ‘interacting with natives’ but murdering innocent people. Lol? Really? It really occurred, and real people died! No F-ing LoL about it.

@@roymoore3156 dude, what crawled out of your ass and pissed in your cereal? Chill the fuck out.

Na vila vila tá todo mundo Segue o cara fala uma letra distorcida sobre a minha vida Vila Azul ela fica apoiando na Vila Azul ela cara falou um monte de besteira lá monte de m**** e o povo não acredita no escuta que o povo que ele tá falando que eu não entendo tudo errado na Venezuela O povo tá tudo certo lá cara tudo

His laughs the best

@CryinBranston The book was very good. Due to time constraints Jocko skips over a lot of information. There is so much more to read about.

@CryinBranston I've read everything I can get my hands on about MACV SOG. "Across The Fence" would be a good start.

@CryinBranston Yes - available on Amazon.

Perfect example of don’t judge a book by is cover

His average day was more ridiculously fuked than most people ever see deployed.

He sure does look like a history teacher; and sounds just as unassuming as our economics teacher. Mr. McMurray was vietnam era marine; if it wasn't for some kid asking if he had a picture of the younger him; we would've never known.

I worked with and played rugby with a guy like John. Great laugh and easy going but I knew he was tough as nails and an extremely high pain threshold. He was a Sergeant in the Dutch Commando and fought communist cannibals in the jungles of Dutch New Guinea in the 70's. He never said much but one comment I remember was "We never took any of them prisoner and they never took any of us prisoner". It took a few minutes for me to understand what he meant.

!Meyer""HOOAH""Meyer! there's you a Hooah Sandwich!

cant kill em either.... how any SOG man American or Local is amazing considering their mission and the US not helping and denying you exist.... woof

M M Except they had the best air support pretty much always available and SOG had an over 100% causality rate

J W such a nice, funny, and happy dude. But probably has stacked more bodies than half the active military today.

J W combined

@@kyleadams1102 indeed

The one to signal the helo with his tracers after the failed smoke, had me rolling on the floor.

Oh yeah check john L plaster as well

I agree and well said. 👍

His writings are exquisite. Very unassuming badass.

Chee bo ha

__. & i

These SOG podcasts have been by far my favorites I listen to them over and over again

Tilt got his sog podcast now

Very astute observation. Good day sir.

Im so grateful for these guys. I was army 11B and never got deployed.

@@davidsuggs7623 11C1P here, completely agree. Crazy.

Brandon Stone Stone pog or grunt, you signed your name on the dotted line. You’re a brother of mine

I couldnt imgaine what my life would have been like if I had not been to Helmand and seen action. I want more than life itself to go back!

Dont we all?

🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤙

Check

That or getting new equipment and then another new guy right after

Get some

"Where surrounded " " good we know where they are" "Chesty Puller"

I loved it

😂😂

This aged like Milk 🥛 with the Rob O'Neill, Marcus Luttrell and Jocko stuff coming to light ....

Thank you!! I was trying to remember which podcast that was!

lots of people make up stuff in battle, but Dick Thompson watching the shiny, new rope turn red with his blood on the way down to the canopy....THAT HAPPENED!!!

My buddy Ray Waters was awarded a medal for valor out side of combat, he was jumping out of an aircraft into with a war correspondent who's shoot didn't open, so ray grabbed the guy before he pulled his own shoot. He broke both of his legs on impact but the guy who's life he save walked away with a few scrapes and bruises.

@@johnathanblackwell9960 cool story bro...tell it again.

Dick Thompson was the "Bright Light!!".

you ever get any info from the historians of the unit ?

Sorry to hear that. It’s so sad the number of young man we have lost to war. And just as amazing are the teenagers or just becoming young men that have shown such bravery. I look back on the ages of many of the brave man that Fought to settle our country and become forefathers to our nation and it is just unbelievable. Pray for a day that we no longer have to send our children in the battle but can sit down across the table from each other and communicate and compromise to avoid the scars of battle. Too many wars are fought for elitist, politicians, bureaucrats that do not deserve the lives that our young man and women are willing to give for their corruption.

reminds me of Peter's laugh on Family Guy.

I would also like to spend an evening with Tilt, as long as he talked I would buy the beer...

Im with ya id rather meet a real hero

And you won't find them at the Vatican or the white house these days

I've been around Governors, A former President, and the Pope, and I've gotta tell you there was nothing epic about any of them. They were a bunch of fools who needed larger fools to take care of them and liked doing anything they were told. This sounds like hatred for hate's sake, but it's not. I'm just saying at the end of the day no matter what was debated or decided, no matter how much technology we have, no matter how much money changes hands, life is still only about survival.

I’d would’ve shit my pants waking up to that

I honestly can't fucking believe it

All of these stories are amazing.

Yeah very positive and I get the feeling if he was 30 years younger he be doing the same kine of thing today.

Roger Hayden has been my long-standing favorite but this guy ties it up. Love the old guys!

Unreal humility and appreciation....loved hearing how fond he was of his S Vietnamese teammates

@@CrusteanParliament yes Roger Hayden was hilarious!! When he referred to his 9 and a half horse power boat motor as 9 and a whore I died laughing. 'You know what i mean.' Lol

@@davidpierce9949 shut up

“Covey would make a gun run with his CAR-15” “...I don’t even know what to say to that”

i just learned mysef cux of the same thing but they got multiple dd214

As did I

Amen.

Emily Joe -I agree. Have both him and John on the show so they can remember stuff together. My high school had a “USO Show” where WW2 vets would come in and tell stories and answer questions. Some of the best moments were when vets from different parts of the war reminded each other of events long forgotten. You could see this flood of memories (both good and tough) come over them as another vet told a simple story. I’d like to see that happen with those two.

What was his name?

It was either Capt Tuan or Capt Thinh, the King B pilot. Lives in Arizona these days.

@@Trixta024 John Stryker Myer. IE Jason borne

@@stevensimpson7068 No, he’s talking about Captain Tuong

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😊😊😊😊😊😊

Right in the feels

Right in the guts

Agreed what dickless Jack would thumbs down!!

Charlie

Wilfredo Mercado that’s sad about your father. My dad was there partially in 67. He said he was on the rock half the time and VN the other half. He said that he was an advisor in the Corps and would have to take a combat command in order to get promoted. He figured he used up all his luck on Iwo , ww2, and Chosen reservoir , Korea, as well a good friend on the generals staff shipped out and was killed 2 wks after arriving in VN. Again sorry for your loss.

What? Shot in the cock?

You "missed me" with that comment. Terrible aim. Figures.

Think about the fact that they were proving the concept in real time. They set the rules, and procedures for today's tac air coordination. WILD.

@@BANDERSJR yeah, that's a good point...never thought of it objectively in that way. Might've done a bit of modification in the way of extraction protocol since then though lol - not everybody is a badass to Tilt's level, getting pulled out of the shit on strings, sometimes upside down..😅

Makes me proud to be from Jersey

3rd Brigade LRRP Phantom Force 1968

Glad I'm not the only one who listened to it more than once hah

I can't stop listening to them! Now we have 4 long episodes too, awesome.

I wonder how the whole ( thow shall not kill ) thing worked out for him

@@videosYOUenjoy the actual ancient Hebrew translation is thou shall not commit murder. Big deference.

@@videosYOUenjoy well same god ordered Israelites to take jericho and kill everyone inside women and children. So That commandment wasnt clearly for the war.

@@videosYOUenjoy-Murder is the actual translation, not kill.

papalou7171 you hit the nail on the head.

It sickens me to know that these warriors and the absolute best of our nation are ever used just to grow certain people's bank accounts. Just a waste of our most honorable.

@@HiVoltish Blame the French for Vietnam on that one brother.

@ thats cause they told the truth and it was unfavorable for sog

@Anthony Swiss communism is a working class party. Thats why the elite have indoctrinated you to think its evil.

How about you do the American thing and step up

Yoshimurha they’re called SJW Liberal Snowflakes who can’t understand or appreciate bravery and honor.

Soybois and turds.

Agreed. Top 3 of all time

You earn the MoH not win it

​@@xJakeShiesty Thanks Captain.

I liked what he said in #180 “Sometimes you gotta laugh to stop from crying”. An interesting way to say - stay positive.

David Bradley 😹😹😹😹

Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen 🙏

In my eyes there there just as good as the world war 2 guys.

Yeah I've heard many vets say during interviews that you can leave the war, but the war never leaves you!

I read all of his books. The stories are just absolutely insane.

Who's cutting onions in here ffs.

Yes indeed, The”Johns home” moment was a definite “Who’s cutting onions in here”moment !