Jocko Willink

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.

And so... And we were slated to go to Iraq.

And we left, I don't know, a few months later.

Yeah.

Actually, probably quite a few months later, because I graduated in, like, June, July, showed up at the team, and we went on deployment in September.

So...

That's, you know, good relationships with people, work hard.

And, you know, he had a platoon commander that wasn't doing a good job.

So he put me in there.