Coleman Ruiz

Like it was time to, you know, take my shot.

It's a little risky because it's hard to make it through, you know, Green Team and stuff at the Special Mission Unit.

It's a nine-month advanced training program.

You're 10 years into your career.

You're not 22 anymore.

You can say you want to try out and you do a pre-screener.

Okay.

So the command training staff, I'll call it the command for purposes of this conversation because I'm familiar with that term for us.

The command training staff comes out, they put you through all this stuff.

Some of it's psychological, some of it's physiological.

I don't think we did a blood test, but they checked.

The trainers checked everything on me, which I thought this is actually a description of why the unit's tier one.

I was...

Even in the pre-screening, it was the first time, the way I joke about it is like, I really felt like I was doing what was in the brochure.

Like it was real varsity stuff, you know?

That was no therapy, but I sat down with a psychologist because they put us through the battery, the Neo PIR, the Raven, stuff like that.

How much do you drink?

And you say, two beers a week.

And you're lying.

Everyone's lying.