Jocko Willink

And when you're in a leadership position and you're having a hard time interacting with other people, that's not going to be good.

At the time, the officer community, if you went from enlisted to officer, they made you switch coasts.

Gotcha.

And I wanted to go to the East Coast because I hadn't been out there.

I'd spent all my time on the West Coast.

And so, and Team 2, I came from Team 1.

Team 1 was the traditional team on the West Coast.

And the East Coast, from my friends that I knew out there, was the same way.

Team 2 was the traditional team.

It was the old school team, you know.

And that's where I wanted to go.

So I got to go to team two.

It was pretty much the same, you know?

When I was...

an E-5 or an E-4, you know, I worked with, like I said, I was the primary comms guy in my first platoon.

I had a really good relationship with my platoon commander, my second platoon, good relationship with my platoon commander.

And then when he got fired, I had a good relationship with the guy that took over.

So, and I didn't, it seemed like good guys

they would just treat you like, you know, like mutual, you know?

So I never really had a huge difference between the way I saw other people or the way, you know, I always just saw myself as another team guy.