533: Vietnam '68-War, Life, Leadership, and Loss w Marine NCO Jack W. Jaunal
Jocko Podcast
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.9 • 31.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
A raw look at war through Vietnam 68: Jax’s Journal by Jack W. Jaunal. Learn to write things down before they’re gone, own your mistakes before they grow, and understand the true weight leaders carry in life and death.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocko podcast number 533 with Echo Charles and me. |
| 0:03.4 | Jocco Willink. |
| 0:04.2 | Good evening, Echo. |
| 0:04.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:06.1 | The place is staging battalion, Marine Corps base, Camp Pendleton, California. |
| 0:10.9 | Most of them are in their teens, privates first class and lance corporals. |
| 0:15.6 | Among them are the corporals and sergeants, not much older, breaking into their 20s. |
| 0:21.6 | They come in all shapes and sizes all hours of the day. |
| 0:25.5 | Most of them are young, the new breed of Marines |
| 0:29.7 | on their way to Vietnam. |
| 0:32.0 | Sprinkled among this group are the old salts, |
| 0:36.2 | Marines with many years of service on the record books |
| 0:39.8 | Many are veterans of our last war Korea for them this will be their second war for a few like me |
| 0:50.4 | It's war number three. |
| 0:58.7 | My thoughts rolled back over the years, 24 years of soldiering. |
| 1:02.6 | 25 if I counted that part-time bit in the State Guard. |
| 1:04.7 | It all began during World War II. |
| 1:09.9 | 1944 was the year and a new recruit was paid $50 a month. I was 17 years old, 5 foot 5 and 145 pounds of |
| 1:15.1 | enthusiasm. The Marine Court turned me down. Dejected, I tried them all and received the same reply, |
| 1:23.6 | sorry. Poor eyesight and a history of tuberculosis as a kid just did not help a guy at all |
| 1:30.5 | I was walking in downtown Los Angeles when I happened to see the sign American semen for American ships |
| 1:38.5 | Join the US Maritime Service that was my ticket to the war |
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