Jocko Willink

And then, so I got back out there in 2000 and I'm in the middle of college when September 11th happens.

And when September 11th happened, my commanding officer or the commanding officer of unit two, who I was deployed with as an ops O,

not the OPSO, but as an OPSJO, he was the detailer.

And I was friends with him.

And I called him and I said, can you please get me back to a SEAL team right now?

And he said, Jocko, this war is going to last a long time.

finish college.

And I said, sir, I can finish when I can do all mine, like whatever.

And he goes, finish college.

This award's going to last a long time.

And I didn't believe him at all, but he was right.

And I always want to make sure I make this point.

He told me later that everybody called him.

Everybody that wasn't at a team, everyone called him.

I was just one of the other guys that called him.

It wasn't like I was extra motivated.

No, I was just as motivated as everybody

wanted to get back to a team and so he sent me when i finished college 2003 again like awesome he sent me to seal team seven seal team seven was like the next deploying team i got seal team seven and my old xo from seal team two was the commanding officer and

He welcomed me aboard, and then a week or two later, he fired a platoon commander and put me in charge.

Oh, shit.