Brandon Tseng

They said, go to this thing called the Naval Academy.

And so, yeah, applied there, got in, and just kept the dream alive.

What age did that fascination start?

The Naval Academy or?

Being a SEAL.

Being a SEAL, 10 years old, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it was, I mean, yeah, it was my older brother.

He, I remember I was like 11 years old at the time.

It was winter in Seattle.

And he's like, yeah, you got to do cold weather training.

Like go sit in the snow and I'll spray you with a hose.

It skipped a generation.

So, on my mom's side, my great-grandfather was actually a doctor on a hospital ship in World War II.

I actually have a really cool picture of the Japanese surrender with Admiral Nimitz, and it's a letter.

It's signed by Admiral Nimitz saying, you know, Captain Carroll, thanks for your service.

to the country during World War II.

My grandfather was also in the Navy.

He graduated, I think, the Naval Academy in like 1949, but then like skipped a generation.

I wasn't close to my grandfather on my mom's side.