Jocko Willink

That was a millennium deployment.

So we were on, we were deployed 99 to 2000.

It was like the winter of 99, 2000.

So I get home from that deployment and I have to go to college because I didn't have any college.

And again, this is why they changed that whole officer program that I did.

I was in E5 at SEAL Team 1.

I went to 13 weeks of OCS, no college.

And then I went to...

uh seal team two as an officer so it was awesome but when i got done they're like yo you you don't have any college you have to go to college to be an officer and i was like oh no i don't need to go i can go when i'm i've already been doing i'm already doing the job and uh the officer detailer was like no no you have to go to college so i went back to san diego to go to college university of san diego and i did that primarily because of jiu jitsu i knew i was going to be

I knew I was going to be having some time during this three years of going to college.

So I went back out to San Diego.

So I get my own training, get with my old training partners and stuff.

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.