This is Jockel Podcast number 410 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, I go. Good evening.

Vice Admiral David F. Emerson was born in September of 1926. He enlisted in the Navy in

1944 where he served in the Pacific theater.

Then after the war, the 1946 he was appointed as a midshipman at the US Naval Academy.

Graduated in 1950 and became a naval aviator.

He once again went to war. This time is a pilot in the Korean conflict.

And after the Korean War, stayed in the Navy, kept flying, went into combat a third time during the

Vietnam War. So that's three wars. During his career, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished

Service Medal, two legions of merit with the combat distinguishing device,

meritorious service medal and the combat action ribbon. In between wars, he held a bunch of

different jobs in the Navy's commanding officer, educated along the way, awarded a master of arts

and government and graduated from the Naval War College, had a wife of three daughters.

I did some research about this guy. Couldn't find a ton. I wanted to find out what he did as an

enlisted guy in World War II, find out what his job was, couldn't find it. But I did find,

and this got me on the trail of him. I read a document a long time ago

from a lecture that he gave in 1963 about the principles of war. He gave it at the Naval War

College to the Command and Staff Department. And the notes of this lecture, I think back in the

day when they'd give a lecture, they would have the notes and like it was part of their plan to

publish them. Maybe it's like you know how you can some some podcasts they have you can order

the notes or you can pay for the notes or something like that. I think that they used to kind of

do that with lectures. So I got the notes they're out there from this lecture and I think it's a good

examination of course not only the principles of war, but the principles of life and the principles

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