Andy Stumpf

And I had to.

Would you let your kids squirrel suit?

Do I have the right to stop them?

No.

Knowing the risk.

I mean, I would do everything I could to prepare them as much as possible.

And by that, I mean, scare the absolute dog shit out of them with the reality and confront them with the actual reality of it, show them how long it would actually take, what they would need to do, what they would need to sacrifice in order to be able to get at that level.

But then if they wanted to make that choice,

I don't feel like I have the right to stand in between them and that desire.

I tell you what, I learned some stuff.

Hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

People think that being a SEAL is hard, and it is.

But a lot of that is truncated with, hey, we're going to go overseas for this short period of time and time away.

And it can be physiologically and psychologically challenging.

But once you're in that community, I didn't encounter anything.

The military never asked me to do anything that got me to a place where I was judging or asking myself

what type of person I was, or if I was a good enough person to be able to continue going forward with anybody other than just myself.

Like those questions I wasn't asking myself in the military.

At the lowest points of a nearly two year divorce process that was very contentious.

And quite frankly, the reason I don't go into details is I have built a larger or a platform and my ex-wife doesn't have one, and that's the fairest way to be about it.