Jocko Willink

Yeah, it was definitely, you know, it was perfect place for me to be.

because I cared about the guys more than anything.

And I just had a bunch of experience with this exact thing that everyone was going to do.

So, you know, that's what I did.

And when you asked me about why I ended up retiring, so I showed up there and I was probably at like 17 years or something like that.

And, you know, I was just, okay, this is what we're doing next, do this for a while.

And then I started,

There's one thing that I didn't like when I came home from deployment.

When I was gone on that deployment to Ramadi, when I left on my first, sorry, my first deployment to Iraq, when I left, my son couldn't crawl.

When I got home, he could crawl and he could walk.

So I was like, hmm, that sucks.

In Ramadi, which was, and I also, you know, of course you miss all the holidays, whatever.

But then I, when I got home from Ramadi, he could swim.

I remember asking my wife, like, who taught him how to swim?

And she's like, oh, it was, you know, one of the lifeguards down at the base.

And I'm like, dude, I'm a frog man.

And someone else taught my son how to swim.

That sucks.

So that was like a little deposit in the back of my head.

And, you know, it was a trade at, and just, you know, we're gone all the time at trade at.