Jocko Willink

Being in the SEAL platoon was just as good as it gets, Pat.

Yeah, that's a different level of frustration, right?

Where if your country is at war and you joined the teams to go to war,

you're not going yeah there's going to be that's going to that's going to be angst right that's going to be problematic for sure and but when there's nothing going on just i didn't i didn't know enough to be frustrated about it yeah we're having a good time i mean i think that would come in too i mean is is i mean i think that attitude comes in as well when you you

First deployment was to Guam.

And this is where I got introduced to jiu-jitsu.

How did that happen?

We show up in Guam, and this is after our workup, so we're there, and we're sitting in our platoon hut one morning, and this master chief comes in, this old master chief.

He had to be at least 39 years old or something like that, but he looked like an old man, an old lanky old guy.

And he says, who wants to learn how to fight?

And I'm like, I don't know what this old guy thinks he's going to teach me, but me and a few other guys, new guys, we raised our hands and all right.

So we went to the Navy base, had like a judo training mat.

And he told us to meet him there at a certain time.

And this guy's name was Steve Bailey.

He was an awesome master chief in the SEAL teams.

And he was a Muay Thai fighter.

And he had been training jujitsu with the Gracies in Torrance in the late 80s.

So he was like...

what right now would be considered like a mid-level white belt in jujitsu.

And he just lined us up and just tapped us all out over and over again.