This is Jocko podcast number 516 with Echo Charles and me Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

You may notice that things have changed since you left. Family may have grown older. Friends may have moved and familiar places may look unfamiliar. That's as it should be. After all, you've changed too.

Civilian life with its own duties and pleasures now offers the chance for a new beginning built on the foundation of your service and sacrifice.

And that right there is an excerpt from a military pamphlet that was issued by the War department and the navy department in august of

1945 and the pamphlet is called going back to civilian life and it's a very when you look through

the entire manual it's actually a very positive spin on coming home from an absolutely brutal war

and that paragraph right there is about all

they have to say about what the transition is going to be like from like a mental perspective,

a psychological perspective. Because the rest of the pamphlet is just, you know, talking about your

military records and your taxes and your family allowances and allotments and wearing your

uniform and when you can and when you can and how to how to

get good insurance and the change of beneficiaries and getting a government job and other

just kind of like mundane administrative information that you probably didn't care much

about when you were coming home from Iwo Jima but the rest of it was up to you.

And again, if you think about 1945 for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines of the greatest generation, they took advantage of every opportunity.

And they did adjust well.

And they built America into what it is today.

And it's not to say that veterans in struggle then, as they sometimes struggle now,

but there are a great many examples of service members who come home from war or come home from

their standard military service doing whatever their country asked them to do, who then carry on

successfully with their next mission in the

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