Brandon Tseng

It's like, to avoid ever having to experience that again, I better be number one.

I better be the best.

That way no one can ever tell me no again.

So that was my mentality going onto the ship.

Got my surface, we deployed.

I gave up 30 days of leave right after I graduated.

I was the first person Naval Academy class of 2008, graduated May 23rd.

I boarded my ship.

Phuket Thailand on May 27th and was in the Arabian Gulf conducting amphibious operations in like mid June and learned a ton learned like best leaders like learned the best leadership lessons actually in in the fleet was a hard job

but you know, I'm very thankful for like, it's funny how things work out in life.

I'm like, I'm forever grateful for getting to experience that year and a half on a ship.

Um, and like, just, you know, yeah, the, the, the, the resilience it built in me and like the mentality, uh, that it built in me, um, whatever, like, yeah, it's just funny how things work out.

Yeah.

So put it in an application.

Um,

you know, best day of my life up to that point.

I remember in a parking lot, right out, you know, right on the pier, right next to the USS Pearl Harbor.

And I get a phone call from the detailer.

Her name was Margaret, the officer detailer.

Like she's a legend in the SEAL teams, like was the detailer.