Jocko Willink

It felt like, okay, now you got to get through SEAL Tactical Training and you got to get through your board with the team.

So I didn't have some, you know, elevated feeling of, I made it.

I never really got that feeling in my 20 years.

Other than a couple Vietnam guys, there was, relatively speaking, almost no experience.

Almost no combat experience.

No shit.

Yep.

And so it was kind of weird because the way we trained

you were training for something that no one really understood.

And as much as like the Vietnam guys passed down as much as they could, but it still was like, you didn't really know

what it was you were training for.

And that made us train very, very hard because it seemed like combat was this unfathomable, tough thing.

And so we better train as hard as we possibly could.

And we thought, we hoped and prayed that we would get to do one mission.

You know, that was the...

the hope and the prayer was maybe we'll get to do one, what we used to call a real world mission.

Yeah.

You know, real world mission.

We would hope and pray that we would get to do some real world mission.

We trained as hard as we possibly could.