Jocko Willink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah.
So, well, the Gulf War, the original Gulf War, the buildup for the Gulf War was starting and that's where I was thought I'd be going.
Yeah.
I was pretty, pretty stoked about that.
Right on.
because Panama had happened in 89.
And that was another thing that made me think, wait a second, these guys are out fighting and dying for our country and I'm not doing that.
This is embarrassing.
So how do I get in?
Who are those guys?
And how do I go join them?
Yeah, I mean, I was...
really stoked when I got to boot camp, you know, because again, for me, it was like blank slate.
Here we go.
I had one buddy that rode on the bus with me, uh, who was, he looked at me and he goes, are you going seals?
And I said, yeah.
And he said, me too.
And so we just, we just hit it off real quick.
And he had been through college already.
He had, he had knowledge, you know, um, he understood more than I did.