@@Spiffo12 just report them as spam, RU-vid is kind of good with taking down spam if you flag it Edit: and voila! I hate these fake bots, Lex Fridman's channel comments is crawling with these losers too
Jocko. Gets up early. Works out. Fathers. Surfs. Trains. Teaches. Podcasts. And somehow finds time to read these giant books to prep. Bro, I don't know how he does it. Crams 60 hours into a 24hr day. Unbelievable work ethic.
My grandpa ben was a Lt col in Vietnam, flew the hu-16 albatross in combat search and rescue missions. Awarded the distinguished flying cross for one certain mission in the gulf of Tonkin. My uncle was one of you guys, a SEAL in nam. Graduated buds in 65, served two tours with seal team 2. Both men are gone from this world, so I no longer get to hear them talk. Listening to these interviews with the older crew, really makes it feel as if im listening to my relatives once again. Thank you Jocko. And thank you Matt.
Was it the fake gulf of tonkin incident which tricked the people into halfway supporting this war of aggression and greed that pushed heroin worldwide and killed 60,000 men, and millions of innocent people??
Roman Shibilski how people like you cannot see the gulf of Tonkin was a false flag is disturbing, the pentagon admitted it , look it up unless your too scared of reality
I love how Jocko is noticeably humble when speaking to his elder war vets. He definitely seems a little less intense when speaking to them as opposed to echo or vets younger than him!
A lot of that is also that the younger guys, Jocko tends to personally know prior to the episodes. The older vets tend to come on shortly after an introduction.
I was a Marine grunt in Viet Nam and the one thing I admired about the Army was their helicopter pilots. They didn't require their pilots to be officers like the Marines and Navy did. As a consequence, their pilots were as young and crazy as the grunts in the field. Most of them were crazy brave.
Jocko! I am so happy I found you. My wife tells me I might have left the Army - but the Army never left me. *I can see here, I am not alone in that.* The Colonel is a real Gem of a Soldier! I was a gunship Flight Lieutenant with the Rhodesian Army 3 Air Supply Cal Sign: "3 Airmobil" in 1972. A gunship is an incredibly complex and dangerous machine. The environment can suddenly become an adreniline-fuelled, gut-wrenching horror show. I have seen you on several shows. And now I found THIS! While watching you on Lewis Howes' channel. As an old Soldier - I have a great interest in listening to other old Soldiers' stories. *"Carry On! Soldier!" Semper Fi!* Thank you. Of course I am now SUBSCRIBED!
Great idea...I would love to hear Mr. Durrant's story and I am extremely curious about any dialouge Mike would have had that day between himself, Shugart and Gordon.
Good evening Echo. Good evening Mr President. I'm gonna drop this in every Jocko comment section until he announces his candidacy or i get sent to a labor camp by Jiao Bai Ben. Whichever comes first.
I find myself addicted to your channel. Thank you for what you're doing here. I am not a service member nor a veteran but have massive respect for our military. I serve as a board member of a charity (Bombshell Betty's Calendar for Charity) built to help our local veterans. Thank you again for your service and for this podcast.
We Veterans Thank You and others like you who reach out to us from an obvious place of Love. We are the recipients of tons of PC Lip Service which has become a joke for the most part however when we encounter people like you that our genuine we recognize and appreciate it more than you know.🤘🏼
Hey Jocko and Echo - love the podcasts and have for sometime now from the UK - always select you when I have my admin days on Mondays - thank you - though I was concerned when you chuckled when Matt told you of his smacked butt re his Dad for lying as a kid - be careful as RU-vid are likely to take you off air and that would be a disaster - mild humour at the worlds madness - Regards Phil
Thank you for having the author on your podcast. I listened to the podcast then bought the books out of curiosity knowing my dad flew in Lam Song 719. Within 20 pages (the Lam Song 719 book) his name was mentioned. Your podcast influenced me to chat with my dad about what I read. He’s talked about it a bit but I never imagined he did some of the things mentioned in the books. I can’t fathom what these young men (not so young now) went through in combat. I would love to hear more stories from these guys. Again, thank you for keeping this podcast going.
Once again, Jocko, I am listening at 3:40:00 in and I will listen through the support section as I do every time. Echo, this is your time so keep getting after it. The more Jocko podcast the better!
Chopper pilots are a special kind of crazy. My brother enlisted in the Army two days before I got home from the first gulf war, drove trucks hauling tanks around Kuwait and Iraq until 2005, then he went Warrant and learned to fly Blackhawks. Apparently getting shot at in a HET wasn't sporty enough for him, he wanted everyone to shoot at him. Two tours in Afghanistan usually flying the birds with all the guns, then a few years as an instructor at Riley. He flies civilian medevac now. He is definitely a special kind of crazy. I joined the USAF, they worked me so hard in the airlift it made me overly muscular and huge in the first gulf war, then they punished me for my size until I got out. Makes me think I should have been a Marine or joined the Army, because I wanted to fly too.
That's ridiculous my dad was in the USAF as well but he was in during Vietnam the AF were on my dad's back about dropping weight constantly through his 4 year's he served they put him on a weight loss plan my dad told them to shove it up there ass and to choke on it!! Lmao!!! There is nothing quite like a Vietnam vet!! Got to love those guy's thanks for you're service Sir. I appreciate you and you're muscles you had developed busting you're ass day in and day out so we can live and have the opportunities only afforded to us because you guy's fought and fight for are freedom everyday thanks man!!!😎👍🇺🇸
Shipping to OCS soon for the Marines on an aviation contract, when I first thought about joining all I wanted to fly was jets but after listening to the Seawolves and this podcast, all I’m thinking about are helicopters! Thanks for such an incredible podcast, valuable lessons as always!
This is such a great "interview" talk I listened all the way through even though I didn't have the time to do that. Keep it up Jocko. Love listening to real stories.
No leader is to be disturbed because family members are worried, the death of a person or fir civilian news. All G7 and G20 operations are in my wKing hours, not theirs. If they dont like it, you can advise them war does not have a clock and I acceot their immediate discharge, without comment or memory. They will receieve a reference which reflects their attendence recird, achievements and joint reference from their peers. No further public comment will be made and that includes positive comments. Mission completers will recieve commendations and more.
Body checks for deceased, those who have committed suicide at 12.30pm every day by opening door, looking, locking door and leaving. A second officer will ve called if anyone is found deceased and civilian forces called to recover body with the explaination of death by misadventure.
Hang in there, we have all been thru it with at least one love of hour life, it stings, it heals, you move on. Have a warriors mentality and you will be fine
Anybody who needs more Jocko can go check him out on Jordan Peterson's podcast. Two of the greatest minds out there sitting down for 2 and half hours. Just dropped today👍
Love these fantastic men and their extraordinary experiences that they get to share with the world on your channel, so never to be forgotten about and to get the honor and respect they all deserve. I salute everything you are doing with this podcast and the great men and women that bless our ears with their honorable history in the armed services.
How good is the Internet. How good are podcasts. How good is JWPC. I'm a former army medic (Iraq 1991) and listening/watching JWPC guests, commentary, stories and sincerity of the shared experiences contributes to the brotherhood. It makes my day. Thank you.
I cant believe these giants are amongst us. These men are the standard to try and attain. It should be easy with the amenities we enjoy today but never the less most of us fall short of these great men. Thankyou for your service. All the men and women in the armed forces you enable us civilians to enjoy our easy lives. I hope we dont squander your hard work and sacrifice.
My uncle served during Vietnam and retired early days of the Iraq/ Afghan war. He finished up in the air force reserves, but still served his country proudly. I'm 45 yrs old, and it did not dawn on me how important it was for him to do that until I started watching Vietnam guys on Jocko podcast. Great info Jocko
This man is amazing! I listen to Jocko every day at work. The way you look at things resonates with me. It's like I'm hearing the best version of myself speak. Out of respect for you I'd like to get a trident tattoo "not the exact seal design different but still a trident" on my Forearm out of respect for you and the other men I hear on this podcast. Would that be disrespectful. I don't want to steal valor or anything like that. In your other podcast about the guy training the first Ranger school in Korea saved me from making a costly mistake. He had to inspect the climbing rope, if the red thread wasn't visible it meant the rope was defective. he wrote a report failed the rope but was ordered to use it anyway. The rope broke it resulted in a mans death. I'm a mechanic I own my own shop. I was torqueing head studs on a very expensive truck while listening to this story. I got out of sequence on the bolt torque, they are one use only torque to yield bolts. I knew what the right this to do was. I waited until the next day and got new bolts and a new head gasket from the dealer out of my own pocket. If you do something wrong and you let it slide bad things happen. It wasn't life and death but my shop is my life. that truck is important to it's owner. what if the head gasket failed and they were sitting on the side of the road and got hit. that would be on me. Id be no better than the guy at the Huey factory who put the wrong bolts in the Huey pitch socket in this guys story his friends died when the one MM bolts pulled out of the housing. It makes me sick because I'm a mechanic, I know how those bolts would have felt on my torque wrench you can feel the threads are to loose you would know. that's inexcusable and lazy and not how I roll.
My dad's first cousin was a warrant officer huey pilot in Vietnam. He flew alot of SOG missions as part of the 170th Attack Helicopter Company out of Plieku. He was killed April 15, 1970 when his huey was shot down dropping Pathfinders and ARVN troops onto LZ Orange at the battle of Dak Seang Special Forces Camp. Turns out the LZ was an NVA Division headquarters with reinforced concrete bunkers who caught his huey, the second one in (like the Col. said, they let the 1st bird in to trap extra troops on the ground then let the 2nd one have it), in a crossfire and shot it down. Al was hit with several machine gun rounds while exiting the crashed chopper after crashing uninjured. He was helped to the side of a hill where they waited while other 170th pilots and several SOG members tried to rescue him, the other crew members, and the pathfinders. He eventually bled to death waiting for help. Unfortunately several aircraft were shot down trying to get to them, including a jolly green giant SAR chopper; and an SOG medic and several indigenous members of the SOG bright light team were killed in one of the choppers that tried to get them off the LZ. Talk about brave men stuck in a horrible situation. I have nothing but the utmost respect for these pilots and crew men and all they did for their fellow brothers in arms. Never Forget. God bless them all. 🚁🇺🇸 P.s here is a link to the whole story, worth the read...it's unbelievable all the courage shown in one morning and afternoon out of a decade plus engagement. www.macvsog.cc/dak_seang_15_apr_70.htm
I am old enough to remember "Chicken Man" on the radio back when Vietnam was still going and I had fighter jets flying treetop level over our farm, sonic booms every few days..
I’ve learned so much about The Vietnam Conflict just from your podcast. In the 80’s, it was completely breezed over in Social Studies/History class. Thank you!
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2 things other than great episode lol. Live the Vietnam era podcast l! I’m living about 15 miles from Ft Rucker and I’m trying to build a collection of veterans who trained at Rucker. Also my dad was a combat vet marine and his father was a msgt and he somehow ran into my grandad-his father - got in a gun battle
My dad remembers flying with a “chicken man” my father served with Dco 2/12 Cav and was at LZ Grant and LZ Buttons and also in Quon Loi during the same time as Matt Jackson
I always got along with the old-timers better than my peers. When I was a kid growing up, many of the dads were Vietnam vets. Some told their stories, others were quiet, and some others who were my mentors, were still making new stories every day! That's how I learned how powerful or mind can make our bodies. They were machines, and while we were young, we were almost invincible machines too.
This is like the 3rd time I've listened to this one. One question I can answer about becoming a door gunner. Correct is that on a second tour you could volunteer for door gunner. On a 3rd tour you go to riverine or recondo school and try your luck with LRRP
I knew when he was talking about apocalypse now when he said movies he didn't like... and then it was haha.. I always liked that movie but not as a realistic depiction of the Vietnam War so I understand from his perspective
In the USAF helicopter Crew Chiefs don't fly with their ship, usually rated commissioned officer the acft commander, the right seat had an enlisted flight engineer who was performance qualified, the gunners were trained aircrew. Now if the ship was going point A to B the crew chief flew with his ship. In the 90's most flying Crew Chiefs or Flight Mechanics fixed wing lost their flight pay because the CSAF thought Crew Chiefs had no inflight duties why pay them to fly and told them to stop wearing their flight suits so duty pax wouldn't ask them questions in a emergency.
Just here to say Thank You whole heartedly for all the men and women that have fought a war that many of us are too afraid to fight❤ Proudly salute you all. Love you. May God shine the light upon our warriors always. May the families of our fallen heroes be at peace and know their soldier will forever be a treasure to us All❤ 🙏
Family will be told explicitly, they have no legal powers over the leaders property, will, rights or consent, ever. They will be thoroughly checked if anyone claims to be family, even on pain of death. The stolen property will be collected by armed officers and named Shogun of Busido, and boight to the home address of leader. The person (suspected parent/foster carer) will be kept under reasonable duress whilst the jayana, bo staff, nin chukus and all other property is recovered. Once completed, an officer will please return the Jersy rings to the original ownervand ex fiance as a means of termination (pp Big Tit) and friendship (op Hearne Bay). The cat Thunder will be collected and boight to the house to be loved. If fit will be following on to usa.
One of my first jobs after High School was as a member of a framing crew building houses. Another crewman was a young man named Stanley. He was about twenty-eight or so, thin, blond, tallish, good-natured but kind-of reserved. He had an air about him of not being all-the-way there and often had a faraway look in his eye. He'd been a Warrant-officer helicopter pilot during the war and had mentioned having been shot down four times during his tour. I remember reading decades ago that we lost approximately fourteen-thousand rotary-wing aircraft during the war. I have no idea as to the accuracy of that figure, but being on a chopper was an extremely dangerous assignment. I've had a number of friends and acquaintances who were helicopter crewman during Vietnam, and most of them had interesting pucker-factor stories to tell. God bless them, and Stanley. Welcome home, and I hope you found some peace and are doing well. He'd be in his early 70's by now. Your sacrifice is acknowledged and very much appreciated.
The American men of the Vietnam war will soon be all gone. I love the fact that Jocko has given them a chance before they are all gone to sit down and tell their stories. What those men went through was living hell, the Iraq and Afghan war, while extremely long war and many battles the Vietnam men did not have any of the comfort that came with Iraq. They were hard men, our Vietnam vets probably averaged 150-160lbs, they were smaller but harder. Extreme fighting men. They did not have body Armor, night vision, Hum-vees for transport. What amazing fighting men
All family will be able to write to GCHQ and that will be assessed for authenticity, facts extracted and message handed to me. Any emotionsl content will be ignored. Staff funerals will be attended as will their families be met, commendations and speech given. JZ zillarts family will have a representative of the same person who will with dignity read any commentry, present cultural attitudes. All family members will be welcome at Jz Zillarts funeral, but banned from the Mass. They will not be allowed to agitate grieving team.
Interviews will be commencing as we progress. Your showingbup is herein a live opportunity to be interviewed for the opportunity you want in your history. Competency is only ever discussed at interview. It is assumed you are chosen fir being faithful and true. We use spiritual welfare, and we do not use demonology of any kind, unless smiting using tech and spirituality. Marti Donnelly will be leading morale, an ass in combat.
As a "machinist" and I use that sparingly knowing how much of a machinist The Old Man was& how much I am not.... I will say this. Two millimeters seems to be nothing to many people. Hell... most people probably have vision problems that limit them to not even have the ability to see or know what 2millimeters is. BUT when it comes to threads, that's a world of strength that simple can't hold. Any machinist would know 2mil. Any good mechanic would also know how a 2mil difference bolt feels sloppy beyond belief. Unfortunately this is where "FOLLOWING THE BOOK" comes into play and Unfortunately cost men lives. Sadly enough. It happens every day in this world.
I treat you with all human and spiritual dignity. It is expected you do the same. I expect other commanders to put you first for safety and wrlfare in the face of all adversity. I expect all leaders to ensure that they are the selfless and instill trust into anyone who requires a ckear parh to exemplary leading. Honesty, it should not be questionnable. Do not question your leadership in operation. Post operation do question them.
All those who went to Vietnam thank you! My grandfather did 5 tours over there and was part of Macvsog crew chief and gunner ch-3e helicopters 64-14222
