This is Jocco Podcast number 107 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

So the Battle of Idrang Valley was over for now and we just spent two podcasts talking

about it.

The thing is that you forget sometimes about the military is that the machine rolls on.

The machine rolls on.

There's work to do and it doesn't matter what you've been through or what you experienced

or how many men or friends or leaders you lost.

The machine is going to roll on.

There's still work to do at least.

It's going to try and roll on.

That means normal things are going to continue to happen, meaning that people are going to

get reassigned, people are going to leave the army, people are going to retire, people

are going to transfer.

You don't stay together.

You don't stay together with these guys that you just went through whatever you went

through with.

As much as you might feel like a family, with that group of guys, you're not going to

get treated like a family in the military.

It's the machine is going to roll on.

And with that in mind, to close out the book, we were soldiers once and young, that again

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