Jocko Willink

When I was an officer, it's like, okay, I got to make sure that the plan is good.

Make sure we have contingencies.

Like there was other things I was going to be in charge of, but I'm still just a part of the machine that's going to take care of this.

And if one part of the machine fails, the whole machine fails.

So...

It was fine, you know?

And, you know, Team 2 was great.

I had a bunch of good guys there, and... And... Yeah.

And there was...

Like, you hear about the differences between the East Coast and the West Coast, and they were team guys.

You know, they were team guys that lived in Virginia as opposed to team guys that lived in San Diego and a bunch of great dudes.

And I ended up almost immediately deploying to Germany.

The chief of my second platoon was the master chief in Germany.

And they had been calling back for ops support.

They wanted a JO to go over to Germany to help with ops support.

And he told me this later, they were in like a morning meeting and they said, yeah, we finally got ops support coming from the beach.

And they go, who is it?

And they go, it's Ensign Willink.

And the ops officer's like, what are you talking about?

They're sending us an ensign?