Jocko Willink

We went to St.

Michael's Church and probably did...

maybe three, three to five years of that where, and you know, when you look back, you know, when people go, where do you get your values from?

And I think that's pretty much as a, as an American, that's where our values come from.

You know, it was like, that's what you're hearing.

And yeah,

So that's probably the time that was, that's the time where I was going to church and, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna absorb those values.

For where I'm from, that's just kind of normal, man.

It's just, it's not some, you know, big deal.

It's like, this is what you do.

And like I said, when you get, you know, I always talk about the fact that you learn a lot when you're, you get a lot of your DNA

you're in your first seal platoon because it's all new and so it imprints on you and i think that's just growing up you know you go to church it's imprinting on you and that's where that's what stays with you so let's move back to the the moving into the military so what drew you to the seals man um i had a friend that

Did the Army program, you used to be able to go and join the Army Reserves, and in between your junior and your senior year, you'd go to boot camp.

And I had a friend that did that, and when he came back, he told me this story, and I've joked about it because I don't know if it's true or not.

It's probably not.

At least it's not totally true.

But this guy told me that when he was in boot camp,

They were out on this track, they were out in Fort Benning and they're out there doing morning PT or something like that.

And there's a guy with cami pants on, combat boots, a t-shirt and a rucksack and a ponytail and he's long hair and a ponytail and he's running around this track.

And this friend tells me the story that he asked the drill sergeant, he said, drill sergeant, who's that?