Jocko Willink

Yeah, there was something that I recognized very quickly that it was, I had to learn this thing, this stuff.

Yeah, yep.

So that was my first platoon.

We go to Guam and this is 93.

There's, you know, we go and do exercises.

We work with other, you know, host nations.

Again, I'm having a good time.

You know, we're training hard.

We're partying hard.

We're doing what kind of like young SEALs do.

But, you know, there's no war going on except for there was some things that were happening in Somalia.

And so there were some guys on board ship from the East Coast and the West Coast that did some kind of operations in Somalia.

Then they went from the ship to go do these operations.

Now, SEALs back in the 90s, no one wanted to go on a ship, right?

And so I got back from that first platoon, and me and a few of my buddies, we were like, hey, we know what we did in Guam, which was nothing, and we know what the guys that were on the ships, they went to Somalia.

let's go on the ships.

And so me and a few of my buddies from that first platoon that I'd gone through buds with, and we'd done that first platoon, we volunteered to go on a shipboard deployment.

And everyone's like, what are you guys doing?

We're like, that seems to have the best chance.

So that's what we did.