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218: Pinned Down, Shot In The Head, Still Winning. With Ike Eisenbach

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.8 β€’ 31.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:08:40 – Charles Robert "Ike" Eisenbach. Silver Star. Vietnam.

2:17:39 – Ike's son, Matt Eisenbach.

2:28:17 – Final thoughts.

2:29:47 – How to stay on THE PATH.

2:47:50 – Closing gratitude.

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0:00.0

This is Jocco podcast number 218 with Echo Charles and me,

0:04.9

Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

0:07.6

In the Marine Corps in Vietnam, first and second lieutenants made up about 65%

0:20.5

of the Marine officers killed in action. Now if you add captains, Marine Corps

0:28.6

captains, O3s onto that, you get to about 85% of all marine officers killed in

0:35.3

Vietnam were in these relatively junior ranking officers. These were the

0:43.7

POTUNE and company commanders. And if you go to 1968, 1968 was the year with

0:52.0

the highest number of Americans killed in action in Vietnam. 16,899.

1:02.8

That's over 1400 per month. 1400 per month killed in action. Now to put that

1:15.5

in perspective a little bit during the heaviest fighting when I was in Iraq,

1:21.0

which was in 2006, there was 823 Americans killed. Now obviously every single

1:37.3

loss is a tragedy. But during the Vietnam War, the tragedy was 20X.

1:50.7

That number 20X more people killed in 1968 in Vietnam than there were in Iraq in

2:01.4

2006. That is just a it's just a different level. Now in total in Vietnam,

2:12.1

there were 14,836 Marines killed. 1387 of those were officers. So that's

2:22.6

basically 10% of the Marines killed were officers and as I already said, 85% of

2:32.2

more of these junior officers. Now if you just run that mouth out a little bit,

2:37.8

there's generally around going to be one officer in an infantry pituit.

2:45.1

There's going to be around 40 guys, which means that these officers make up for

2:51.0

about 2.5% of Marines. And then again, just by my estimation, just some rough

3:01.0

math, that means that these young Marine officers were about four times more

3:08.4

likely to be killed than the enlisted guys. And you if you think about that,

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