Jocko Willink interviews Admiral Thomas "The Hulk" Richards

This one is titled "Shut Up And Return Fire" and opens with the words "As the SEALs inserted into a rice paddy..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtBPYO3euHA&t=14042s

I haven't seen this one yet, but will note it. My wife (of all surprises) and I have been watching all of the SOG related podcasts that Jocko Willink has done interviewing John Stryker Meyer or interviewing other SOG veterans with Meyer being present. All great.

Tom

I really enjoyed watching those. What gave me a real thrill was finding out that John Stryker Myer was a rabble-rousing student newspaper editor after he came back from S-E Asia. As a student newspaper editor, I stirred things up too - I wasn't invited back for the student association centenary celebrations etc. So at least we have one thing in common.

I was really surprised that Tilt said he had not cut his hair in a year and dressed the way he did for a job interview. He must have looked like a hippie. Between Jocko’s interviews of and with Tilt, and Tilt’s own SOG Cast series, he had no use for their naive and/or evil anti-military views. I can’t understand why he would want to wear their “uniform.”

Tom

Interesting point - I was just a kid in those days, but my memory, growing up near a campus, is that you sort of had to have long hair to fit in in the early '70s.

I graduated from undergraduate in 1967. Things were pretty sane yet there at that time. No one was protesting ROTC or anything else I was aware of. But then I was not living on campus. I lived at home. In those olden days, before the ridiculous idea of student loans, tuition costs were very reasonable, even at many or most private colleges and universities. Living expenses were the problem.

How different to day.

I was in law school from Fall of 67 until Spring of 70. The law school was in the corner of the campus, almost separate and apart. In those days, most male law school students (all but two of my class were male) usually wore suits or sport coats with ties to class!!! But I did see hippie looking kids in the rest of the university. The hippies took over the university in the spring of '70 and classes were cancelled. We got a grade of satisfactory for each class.

Tom

Garryowen wrote:
I was in law school from Fall of 67 until Spring of 70. The law school was in the corner of the campus, almost separate and apart. In those days, most male law school students (all but two of my class were male) usually wore suits or sport coats with ties to class!!!  But I did see hippie looking kids in the rest of the university. The hippies took over the university in the spring of '70 and classes were cancelled. We got a grade of satisfactory for each class.

Tom

Suits or sport coats with ties! Wow - tell me at least that they had loud ties and brightly coloured suits

It was probably the same with the law students in Christchurch, where I grew up - I wasn't actually on campus at the time, but I did live nearby. The hippie movement was very active in Christchurch, so there were a lot of long-haired students. Christchurch was also the home of the PYM (Progressive Youth Movement) - loosely put, the NZ equivalent of the Weather Underground. They conducted the usual marches and disrupted ANZAC Day services, in addition to fire-bombing the US Information Office in Christchurch on two occasions, for which some of them went to prison.

Wow. You had some rough customers!

Thinking more, I believe we did have one guy in our class who was mildly hippie in his appearance. Most of those guys ended up in the public defender's office.

Tom