Jocko Willink

That's all we did.

That's what we did.

Because there wasn't anything else.

And once I had a family, I had to at least take a little bit of time.

But even then, my family was second to my platoon, to my task unit, to the teams.

I would love to tell you that I'm embarrassed to admit that or that that's not the right thing, but when you're in the SEAL teams, I think that is the thing.

It's the fucking way it is, man.

That's the way it is.

And, you know, God bless my wife who was just like a saint, but she handled the family stuff and I handled the war stuff.

Were you married at this time?

Yep.

So going to Ramadi, I had three kids at that time.

Well, no, one, uh, three, three.

So my daughter was born, my oldest daughter was born the day before I went on the strike deployment in, at team two.

She was born and I left, never changed a diaper.

And then while I was in college, I had two more kids because I was home.

And then, um,

And yeah, I mean, I was in the SEAL teams, man.

We go on deployment.

We go to war.