Jocko Willink
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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...