CZ Lopez

All right, this is the price of admission to be an honorable member of this particular club.

And if you fall short, you're going to be in this particular bucket.

And that is not shaming.

That is just making you aware that you're not doing enough.

So do not expect the same rewards that this group is going to get.

All right.

Unless you decide to start getting with the program and be more proactive.

And that's what the mantra is really all about.

It's about being proactive, you know, owning, having the courage to move forward, even at the price of failure in order to learn.

And when I got assigned as my first duty as a senior enlisted leader outside of pararescue at the first special operations wing, that's when I decided to write the 20 Silver Bullets.

And that was to motivate the masses.

I mean, you're talking the cooks, the administrative people, the financial people, the maintainer of aircraft, you know, the people that dealt with multiple area affairs.

I mean, you name it.

It didn't matter whether they held a gun in combat or a pencil.

So I saw the need to make sure that we created a culture of war fighting, because at the end of the day, the mission of the wing was to answer the call when the chips fell.

And that became pretty evident upon the first two weeks of assignment at the first Special Operations Wing.

When we got the call from President Obama to go ahead and rescue a hostage, Jessica Buchanan, who also, like you, ended up putting a quick blurb on the book.

on the preface of the book.

And we got the call to go out and rescue her.

And we ended up rounding up about 130 people from the first special operations wing on a Saturday, deployed to Somalia, got the hostages and brought them back.