Jocko Willink

It all just boiled back to working for that platoon commander that made life in a platoon awesome.

And I thought if I can make platoon awesome, if I can make life awesome for 16 guys in a single platoon, I'm going to do it.

And yeah, that was it.

That was it.

I went to officer candidate school in 1998.

Yep.

Early 1998, I went to officer candidate school and you know, that was, you know, you're pretty much, we had, we had a decent number of prior enlisted guys in my class, but most, most of them, I'd say 70% of them were kids out of college going to OCS.

And so, you know, I show up there, I'm a SEAL and the drill instructors, the Marine Corps drill instructors down at OCS and, uh,

Great, great interaction with the Marine Corps drill instructors.

You know, I became the class president, which seemed pretty obvious, I guess.

But most of the class presidents are only class president for like three days in the first few weeks because they're just firing them.

But I became class president and I just stayed.

So I was a class president and then went through OCS, you know, folding underwear.

Literally with a ruler.

They have a ruler.

No shit.

Yeah.

So, you know, graduated from OCS and then went to Team 2.

Yeah, you know, leadership was a cool leadership challenge, going to OCS and being the class president.

You make things happen and...