Coleman Ruiz

But the shit that happens to you out in the field for real does not follow any pattern.

And so if you are a complete, you know, non-suspended from school rule follower, I'm not saying you won't be successful.

I'm sure plenty of people are.

But in our line of work, if you ask people, most of them had a weird streak as they were coming up.

Like they have a little bit of a side eye when somebody tells them this is how stuff is.

Like maybe it's like that.

But you don't know that.

And where it really became clear for me, Andrew, was like at every stage in your development, you're still looking for what right looks like.

And when I was a I'm now a Naval Academy graduate, not that that means anything special, but I'm smart enough.

I'm now in my 20s.

I'm at Bud's and.

I have this recollection later.

People are always telling stories about the teams.

And when you're a new student at Bud's, you kind of believe everything the instructors tell you because it's pretty impressive shit.

And then you find out later when I checked into SEAL Team 3 and you actually start to understand the arc of the job.

It's like all these guys were telling –

training stories.

Those weren't real combat stories.

They never said that that was a story from training.

And so my point is like,