This is Jocko Podcast number 527 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

When I arrived at headquarters early that Friday morning, the closest parking lot was already crowded.

By the time we held our first formation, every lot was full and trucks lined the sides of the road.

As I made my rounds that weekend, I saw soldiers sleeping outside in the rain while they practiced field craft,

repairing vehicles with scavenged parts, and building logistics plans for our deployment.

There were plumbers turned medics, electricians turned mortarmen, financial advisors turned staff planners,

all putting their life on hold for three days to train to fight and win our nation's wars

all doing it without pay all doing it without hot meals all doing it without complaint or

expectation of recognition all doing it because it's their job because not doing it

would let someone down because letting someone

down later might mean someone dies and that right there is an excerpt from an article

by Nathan Frye who is a US Army infantry officer's a ranger, a battalion commander currently of the

1372 or sorry the 3172 infantry, which is Mountain of the Vermont National Guard, which is

a relative, I guess, of the 1172 Task Force Sabre,

the amazing unit that we fought alongside in Ramadi,

whose lessons that we learned from them kept many seals alive.

And Nathan is a veteran of multiple combat deployments,

mountain guide in an entrepreneur.

And it's an honor to have him with us here tonight

to share his experiences

and lessons learned Nathan thanks for joining us thanks for having what I'm missing that

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