Jocko Willink

You should probably do something else with that.

And I never really did that and never really encouraged anyone to get an education.

You know, when someone came to me about getting an education, I'd say, do you want to go to sniper school?

Do you want to go to breacher school?

You know, we got you.

And so I was very, very focused on the teams.

And, you know,

That's just the way I was.

And I recognized when I retired that there is something after the teams.

And so I wish I would have paid a little bit more attention to that, especially for the guys that I was responsible for.

And I didn't do a great job of that.

No, and again, look, as far as their personal life, if a guy was having problems with his marriage or problems with his kids or something like that, I would do whatever I could to help him out with that.

But I'm saying as far as planning life outside of the teams, I just didn't think much about it.

And even if a guy was having a problem with his wife or with his kids, my focus would be, okay, how can we get that fixed?

so you can go on deployments, so you can get back to being in a platoon, which is what everybody wants to be doing anyways, most of the time.

Gotcha.

But where'd you grow up?

I grew up in a small town in New England on a dirt road.

And both my parents were schoolteachers.

Pretty normal.