Jocko Willink

And that master chief came in and said, he said, don't be late.

Don't forget anything.

And keep your mouth shut and your ears open.

That's really good advice.

Don't be late.

Don't be late.

and keep your mouth shut and your ears open.

And that's the way it was, you know?

That's the way it was.

Keep your mouth shut, keep your ears open, and try and absorb everything that's going on.

And again, this is 1991, man.

Like the Gulf War that I thought I was gonna be in, that they were reporting that there was gonna be 30 or 40,000 casualties was over in 72 hours.

I missed the whole thing.

So this is just a peacetime organization.

And even with that, it was pretty intimidating to walk into.

You know, back then we didn't get our trident or anything.

You know, we just, you just graduated and you still had a lot of hurdles to overcome.

I was always pretty paranoid.

You know, you asked like when I failed something, I was very paranoid about failing, not wanting to fail.

And so even going to, knowing that I was going to SEAL Team One, knowing I graduated BUDZ, it felt good, but it didn't feel like I had completed the journey at all.