Coleman Ruiz

And then they select down – I don't want to, again, overdo it, but it's probably –

I don't know, maybe 50 or 60 qualified guys.

They select you down to 16.

And so to answer your question about when I got interested was when I knew I didn't wanna go in the Marine Corps, I never ever had the top gun fever thing.

I wasn't interested in flying

I just wasn't interested in anything else but something super physical.

And that seemed like the best, the next best thing.

And because I grew up in New Orleans and spent a lot of time in the water, that wasn't intimidating.

That screens a lot of people out, obviously.

Yeah, and got selected in the group of 16 and was at Bud's after graduation, you know, a couple of months after graduation.

Yeah, this was, as you know, this was very anecdotal, but it lined up.

When I was back there in 05 as an instructor, Andrew, I feel like we're not scientists, right?

But I feel like we tried every correlating data pool that we could pull from pull-ups to run times to you name it, to regions of the country that people grow up near water.

At least back then, nothing correlated.

And so I was a first phase OIC, officer in charge.

And so our team in first phase, we can talk about what that is in detail if you want to, but first phase is in charge of Hell Week.

You know, Hell Week's in the first two months of training.

And a couple of the guys said, all this bullshit about this can get you through, that can get you through, I bet.

that every single person we talk to out here on the grinder has one of these three things.

They were a varsity athlete in high school or college, their parents are divorced, or they got suspended from school.