Jocko Willink

No one cares what grade you got in high school.

They just, this is what you got to do.

And so, yeah, my parents were stoked.

My dad did say, he said, you're not going to like it.

And I said, why not?

And he said, because you don't like authority and you don't listen to anyone else.

And of course, since I knew everything,

I looked at him, I said, hey, you know, dad, it's not like that in the SEAL teams.

It's a team and there's no bosses.

You do everything together, so.

That's how ignorant I was.

But yeah, you know, pretty ignorant going into the military, you know, not growing up around it.

My dad got kicked out of ROTC, as a matter of fact.

Oh, no kidding.

My grandfather was in the Army.

He was a 20-year Army guy, but I didn't know him very well.

He died when I was about 10.

So didn't have a lot of military information and just thought that the SEAL team sounded...

Yeah.

So, well, the Gulf War, the original Gulf War, the buildup for the Gulf War was starting and that's where I was thought I'd be going.