Jocko Willink

This is happening for a reason.

This is because we're a bunch of mutineers that got our last boss fired and they're sending this guy down because he's going to crush us and like get us in line.

And so when he shows up, this guy, I'm expecting, you know, a six foot five, 270 pound beast.

And this guy shows up and he's like five,

eight and maybe 150 pounds.

And he looks like he's about, he's like the oldest guy I've ever seen in the SEAL teams, which was probably like, you know, 37 or something like that.

Gray, graying hair and all the whole nine yards.

And he walked into our platoon space and I'm like, who is this freaking, this guy's supposed to be the legend?

He walks into our platoon space and he says something along the lines of like, hey, I'm sorry to hear about your last platoon commander.

but I'm not worried about it.

I'm just looking forward to working with you guys."

And right there, like the fact that he didn't come in and say, you know, I'm taking over, I'm in charge as a new sheriff in town.

He said, I'm looking forward to working with you guys.

And I realized, oh, this guy is different.

And then that afternoon he's taking out the garbage, you know, sweeping up the platoon space.

He's taking out the garbage.

I'm like, whoa.

That's a new, that's not just a new guy's job.

That's like a new guy that's in trouble's job.

And then a couple of days later, we had our first training mission and he put me and my running mate in charge of the mission, which was awesome and crazy.