This is an addendum to Jocko Podcast 434 which was called war crimes, murder and leadership with

Echo Charles and me Jocka Willing.

Good evening, echo.

So after that podcast came out, number 434, if you haven't listened to it, please go listen to that first

and come back to this.

But after it came out, I had some people point out some things to me

that they'd seen or heard on the interwebs. Some of them I'd glanced at, but I checked them out a little more in-depth and normally I don't worry too much about stuff like this or I don't talk very much about these kind of sort of thoughtless and flipping comments and

you know bits of information out there on the interwebs but there was actually some really revolting and

outrageous things being said about me being said about my task unit tasking

to bruiser, accusations of war crimes and reckless behavior and getting Americans

killed and it was disgusting to listen to to read through and a wretched

insult to all my guys who served and sacrificed and especially to those guys who aren't here to defend themselves.

And there were some very specific... here to defend themselves.

And there were some very specific things that were said.

And if you know anything about the military or war,

they might have seemed a little bit unlikely but if someone is not familiar with the military not familiar with war or rules of engagement or chain of command and

the myriad of other things that you learn over a career in the military,

then people might believe some of these things.

And even people that were in the military sort of spent time in the

military and so some of the vocabulary seemed familiar. Some of the things they said seemed like oh it seemed that could be possible and

so that could lead people to believe some of these things well one of these

things was a supposed letter that was allegedly written by a marine officer from

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