474: Building More United Communities. With Force Recon Marine, Jake Harriman

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Jake graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy and served seven and a half years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander in both the Infantry and Force Recon. Following his service, Jake enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. While at Stanford, he founded Nuru International to eradicate extreme poverty in the world’s most unstable, vulnerable regions to help end violent extremism. Jake played a vital role in drafting, introducing, and passing groundbreaking new legislation called the Global Fragility Act of 2019 that equips America with new authorities and resources to prevent conflict and stabilize some of the most fragile regions of the world.

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0:00.0	This is Jocko podcast number 474 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.
0:05.2	Good evening, Echow.
0:06.0	Good evening.
0:07.7	It is early morning April 2003.
0:11.5	The fog is lifting along Highway 7 in southern Iraq.
0:14.7	A small car blazes up the road.
0:17.6	Jake Harriman, the platoon commander, fires a warning shot.
0:22.4	The driver of the car immediately bolts from it, frantically waving his hands and starts sprinting towards Harriman's position.
0:28.7	Harriman's face and those of his men are as drawn and depleted as the vast rock desert
0:33.7	that surrounds them. Taking the man for yet another suicide bomber they train
0:38.9	their sights on him as they do another vehicle a black truck roars out up weapons
0:46.1	shredding the man's car like sunny Corleone's Lincoln Continental and the godfather
0:52.0	the man screams and turns back herman orders his men to open fire on the truck
1:00.0	the six fedeine members of saddam's brutal special forces have no chance against the overwhelming
1:06.8	american firepower but it's too late at the car the man who is trying to flee across
1:15.9	American lines sobs uncontrollably there's blood everywhere in the passenger seat his
1:24.6	wife is dead shot through the head in the backseat their six-year-old
1:29.3	daughter bleeds from the stomach her baby sister is already dead a mangled bloody
1:36.7	stump where her arm once was a few feet from the car, Harriman stops running.
1:47.1	The Marine Corps officer and the Iraqi father embrace and begin crying.
1:54.9	There are no words.
1:58.4	There never will be any words.
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