This is Jockel Podcast number one 66 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, Echo. Good evening. And we are rolling straight into part three,

podcast number three of the psychology for the fighting man. What you should know

about yourself and others. So if you haven't listened to the previous two podcasts,

they're about this same book and there's so much information that we split it up because it was going long.

And this part, these couple sections here are really what I was originally going to cover,

but then I figured I'd cover it all. And next thing, you know, this turn to three podcasts series.

Cool. And this section is called the soldier's personal adjustment. And here we go back to the book.

In a demo, in a democratic civilian army, millions of men are suddenly abruptly thrown into a new way of life.

It is in many ways a tough life. Men used to going their own ways, choosing their own jobs,

associates, neckties, times for going to bed. Now have to follow military orders about all these things.

Men accustomed to a comfortable litter of belongings around them find the bare neatness of police barracks hard to get used to.

Those used to steam heat, warm shower baths, and breakfast eggs cooked just three and a half minutes at home.

Maybe pretty uncomfortable when they have to put up with a bed on the ground and cold water for shaves.

There is more over no privacy in the army. If a man over sleeps and his corporal dumps him out of his bunk, the whole company knows about it.

If he looks at his girl's photograph a lot, they know that too.

The business of living in a goldfish bowl and having to take rousing from his fellow soldiers is about the hardest thing for a sensitive recruit to get used to.

That's a fact. So here we go. These are all just welcome to the military.

You're not going to get to eat what you want to eat. You're not going to get to sleep when you want to sleep.

You're not going to get to keep what you want to keep. Think about it. Those are personal freedoms that everybody cherishes. They're all gone.

Even your privacy. When you get to when I went to Navy boot camp, you go in the bathrooms. There's just stalls. There's no, I'm sorry, there's just toilets. There's no stalls.

You just sit down next to everyone else and do your business. The privacy is gone.

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