Jocko Podcast 11: Jocko’s Retirement Speech, Leif Babin, Charlie Platoon, Task Unit Bruiser, Stories, Memories, Heroes, and Lessons Learned

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.8 • 31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 159 minutes

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0:00:20 - Jocko's Retirement Speech 0:15:31 - Intro to Leif Babin 0:19:31 - About Leif 0:29:41 - Chris Kyle and the Movie, "American Sniper" 0:51:16 - Marc Lee 1:04:25 - Ryan Job 1:29:55 - Tony Eafrati 1:53:19 - [INTERNET QUESTIONS] - Best way to become a SEAL Officer. Enlist first? Or straight Officer commission? 2:01:10 - "Tell us a story about BUDS." 2:09:46 - What is Jocko & Leif's favorite Operator specialty? 2:21:07 - How to overcome the "Hand-cuffing" boss who isn't a good leader and doesn't trust his employees? 2:25:01 - To obey or disobey a bad order? 2:33:17 - What to do if you WANT to take ownership, but not sure how. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/jocko-podcast/exclusive-content

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0:00.0	This is Jocco Podcast number 11 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.
0:10.9	And additionally today we have our first guest, Lave Babin.
0:16.0	Lave welcome to the show.
0:18.5	Thank you.
0:19.5	Glad to be here with you.
0:21.5	Now to begin this podcast today, I'm going to start at the end.
0:27.0	I'm going to start at the end of my Navy career when I retired from the SEAL teams after 20 years.
0:36.0	And this is the speech that I gave on my last day of military service, my last day in the SEAL teams,
0:42.0	and about an hour before I walked back to the trade-at building,
0:48.0	cleaned the last things out of my locker, loaded them into my car,
0:55.0	and drove away from the SEAL teams for the last time.
0:59.0	With 20 years of memories and experiences and the best times of my life,
1:05.0	and the worst times of my life, all rushing through my mind.
1:13.0	And this is the speech I gave that day.
1:21.0	During my last deployment to Iraq in 2006, one of the first things we did was a series of operations on the eastern side of Ramadi.
1:30.0	In order to execute these operations, we took a majority of the SEALs to Camp Corregidor,
1:36.0	home with the first of the 506 Band of Brothers, on the edge of the Malab district of Ramadi.
1:44.0	Camp Corregidor was like four apocalypse.
1:48.0	They received mortar fire, RPGs, and small arms fire daily.
1:54.0	The barracks were an old partially blown out building with sandbags in the windows, dirt floors, and no air conditioning.
2:02.0	There were no showers. It was hard living.
2:08.0	As far as the fighting, Charlie Company, from the first of the 506 who we were set to work with,
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