Jocko Willink

And the drill sergeant, without looking back, just keeps looking forward and goes, Delta.

And then my buddy goes, drill sergeant, is there anyone that's tougher than Delta?

And the drill sergeant, without looking back at him, just says, SEAL team.

And so I heard that story, dude.

I'm a freaking young kid.

And that was it, man.

Again, you know, I don't even know if that actually happened.

But you want to know where I first started thinking about the SEAL teams.

That was it.

And like I said, I grew up in the water.

So knowing that the SEALs worked in the water, you know, I surfed as a kid up in Maine, which was awesome.

And so just having that...

tied to the water.

And then the SEAL teams were stationed.

I figured out that the SEAL teams were either in San Diego or Virginia Beach, both of which were cool places in my mind.

And so I said, that sounds awesome.

Join the SEAL teams and get stationed either in San Diego or Virginia Beach.

You can surf and do commando stuff in the water.

Like,

It's a literal no-brainer to me as a kid.