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274: Being the Best. Can You Handle The Cost of Going Against The Grain? Is it Worth It? Tony Herbert, "Soldier"

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4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:04:20 - Tony Herbert, "Soldier"

2:31:09 - Final thoughts.

2:48:27 - How to stay on THE PATH.

2:59:12 - Closing Gratitude.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jockel Podcast number 274 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

0:05.7

Good evening, I go.

0:07.0

Good evening.

0:08.0

All right, so the last podcast 273 we were with Anthony Herbert, Tony Herbert, also known

0:15.1

as, and we started off his journey from a kid growing up in Pennsylvania.

0:21.2

So if you haven't listened to podcast 273, go listen to that right now.

0:26.8

We tried to join the Marines at 14, 14 years old, credit.

0:33.0

Eventually, join the Army at 17, off to the Korean War, went from private to master sergeant,

0:40.2

all kinds of heroic actions, suffered all kinds of wounds, shot, hit with frag, white

0:47.1

phosphorus burns, and also bayonetted multiple times, including one bayonet stab that broke

0:54.8

off in his chest.

1:00.2

He in the Korean War served as a platoon leader, even though he was just a young and listed

1:04.4

guy.

1:06.5

And eventually at the end of that podcast and at the end of that part of his life, he

1:11.2

was pulled off the battlefield.

1:13.2

One of the most decorated soldiers of the war sent on a morale.

1:16.5

It was basically a morale tour.

1:19.9

And first we got flown back to the White House, met President Truman, and then basically

1:25.7

went to London and Antwerp and Brussels and the Hague and all the other European allies

1:30.6

that were fighting alongside America in the Korean War.

1:34.6

Along the way, he met Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

1:39.1

She encouraged him to go to college.

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