Jocko Willink
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And he ended up, you know, as a Master Chief in the SEAL teams, but just a great dude.
You know, he wrestled in college, just a great guy.
So, you know, went to boot camp, and then, again, I was super, you know, just so...
open-minded to like what was coming and happy about being there and just stoked to go to buds and then showing up at buds it was like the best thing ever yeah man did you i mean i'm did you have did you meet an actual seal at all before you no shit nope so you showed up saw one in boot camp
And I just saw one in bootcamp.
And I think it was a guy that I met later who was getting reprocessed.
He had been out of the SEAL teams for a while and then he'd come in back in and I kind of recognized him.
Cause you know, I saw one SEAL when I was in bootcamp and I recognized him later and I talked to him.
He was just a super chill guy, but in my mind, you know, he's this SEAL.
So you think he's, you know, the coolest thing in the world.
Yeah.
Damn.
But no, I never knew.
I mean, I would say not really.
I wasn't really intimidated, but I definitely didn't know much about what was going on.
When I showed up, there was a poster in medical.
They had a Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster in medical, but they'd crossed out Texas Chainsaw Massacres and they replaced it, said Bud's Pool Comp.
And they put like a snorkel or whatever, a mask on the kid.
And I didn't even know what Pool Comp was.
I didn't know anything about it.