282: Never Say Die-Approach to Problems, Initiative, Total Self-reliance, Flexibility, and Improvisation. The Light Infantry.

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:11:47:02 - Learning from the Light Infantry so we can take advantage.

1:33:30 - Final thoughts and take-aways.

1:35:38 - Support, and How to stay on THE PATH.

1:59:07 - Closing Gratitude.

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0:00.0	This is Jockel Podcast number 282 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Echo.
0:07.0	A 44-year-old Watten Man was among those involved in a three-day fight recently as part of Operation
0:16.3	Adelboro in Vietnam. He is Charles F. Wittis, who is stationed at Fort Sill until June with
0:25.3	the 4th Battalion, 30th Infantry, and now serves as a Platoon Sergeant in Vietnam with company
0:32.3	A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, a 24-year Army veteran's wife, Florence,
0:42.8	and children Pat, David, Sharon Gary, and Wanda reside in Loughton. A married daughter
0:50.4	lives in Lichfield, Minnesota. Operation Adelboro was not the first time Sergeant Wittis has seen action.
1:00.0	As he served with the 1st Infantry Division during World War II, and saw action in North Africa,
1:06.0	Sicily, the Normandy, invasion, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
1:14.2	So he had some combat experience. He also served in Korea with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance
1:23.6	Platoon of the 19th Infantry Regiment 24th Infantry Division. Operation Adelboro has been
1:29.3	described as the biggest U.S. action of the Vietnam War. The 43-day operation involved some 25,000
1:36.5	American soldiers in the jungles of Tainin Province, northwest of Saigon. It cracked open
1:43.7	on the toughest and oldest of Viet Cong strongholds. The campaign ended last Saturday with a claimed
1:50.4	bag of more than 1,100 Communist regulars killed and nearly 2,400 tons of rice captured
1:58.3	plus hordes of other supplies. I don't think that the fighting out there was as bad as in itself
2:07.0	as either World War II or Korea, but this was much more confusing. In Korea, you at least had lines.
2:13.8	Over here, they were all around you. Sergeant Widis said,
2:18.5	at first I thought we'd run into a platoon on patrol, but when the fighting continued,
2:24.5	I knew we'd run into a much stronger force. I don't really have time to think about what was
2:29.5	going on. My time was spent getting wounded out and getting the ammo to the men. Those assaults
2:36.9	were the first I'd seen since Korea. They were just the same type that we called Bonzi attacks.
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