This is Jocco Podcast number 247 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, echo.

Good evening.

Are you old enough to have a draft card? He says.

Yes, yes I'm old enough. I'm 18. We have to have one.

Well, do you have one?

Yeah, I say with a full mouth. Sorry about that.

Spitting hash browns across the table.

Then you're old enough to enlist and get your duty out of the way.

You sure you're old enough? You don't look 18. Kind of skinny too.

I don't know if you'd make it through the most basic of training.

He riley smiles. I'm 18 and can prove it.

You want to see the card?

Testily reaching for my wallet, spitting a mouthful of eggs on the table.

Hey, don't go sideways, I'm a boy.

This is a friendly conversation. Not a food fight, the sergeant laughs.

The only thing I want you to hand me is your bill for this meal, my treat.

You're trying real hard to get me to enlist.

Smiling, I hand him the bill. You a recruiter? Yes, I'm a recruiter.

I'm Staff Sergeant King. What's your name?

Lynn. Lynn Black.

Well, Lynn Black. If you volunteer, you get your choice of assignments

and which country you want to serve in. How does that sound?

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