Jocko Willink

know i thought that this may be this this could be getting towards the end of my operational career uh there were some couple other options that may play out or not but at this point you know just for me that this is a just just an awesome opportunity you know an awesome opportunity and i love the seal teams and

to be a troop commander tasking a commander for me was just it was awesome i was again i guess i find myself uh struggling for words when it for me to be able to describe

the things that I've had in my life, like being a platoon commander in Iraq when there's one platoon in Iraq.

Like, this is just, this is like if you played football your whole life and you get to go to the Super Bowl, you know?

Or you get, you know, you are in a rock band and you get to play Madison Square Garden.

That's what it was for me.

This is the only thing I ever dreamed of doing, the only thing I wanted to do was be in the teams, and now I'm in the teams.

And now I'm getting to be in charge of some team guys.

And...

Yeah, it was awesome from the word go, you know?

Showed up and like I stole a lot of stuff from Colonel David Hackworth and one of the key components that I stole from David Hackworth was he would rename

the units that he would take over.

So when he was in Korea, he took over Fox Company, he changed it to Fighter Company.

When he was in Vietnam, he was in charge of the 439th, which was called the Hard Luck Battalion, and he changed it to the Hardcore Battalion.

And he did that, even with each of his subordinate elements, he would change their name to something cool.

And so when I took over, Task Unit Bravo was the original Alpha Bravo Charlie, and I took over for Task Unit Bravo, and the first thing I did was change the name to Bruiser.

And it's totally unofficial.

And I just went with it.

And that's what we got.

Where'd you come up with Bruiser?