Jocko Willink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, two guys.
Didn't know them.
Met them.
And two guys from the Naval Academy, neither one of them got selected out of the Naval Academy.
They both had fought their way back from the fleet to get to the SEAL teams.
Both of them from Texas.
Both of them surfed.
Neither one of them had much experience at all.
But they were, dude, they just, they wanted to be good.
They wanted to be good team guys.
And they wanted to, they wanted to fight.
They wanted to fight for God and country.
And they were tough.
They listened.
Yeah.
Yeah, they couldn't ask for better guys to work with, you know, for the two platoon commanders.
And, you know, it's funny because Leif will tell the story about when I met those guys and how, A, I didn't smile to him and I wasn't nice to him.
And, B, Seth thought I was going to fire him.
And I hated him.
And...