John Reeves
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It's a maturity thing, I think. Normally happens at the SEALs. Most unit guys are pretty mature and have been through so much shit by the time they get to the unit that you're probably unshakable by then.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's when the bad decisions will start. You know what I mean? And the reality is you got to snap your fucking self out of that. You got to fucking put your parachute back on and get the fuck back on that airplane. I had plenty of those jumps. I've cut away more. Fuck, I had a cutaway training for D-Day last year. Fucking put my cutaway.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's when the bad decisions will start. You know what I mean? And the reality is you got to snap your fucking self out of that. You got to fucking put your parachute back on and get the fuck back on that airplane. I had plenty of those jumps. I've cut away more. Fuck, I had a cutaway training for D-Day last year. Fucking put my cutaway.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's when the bad decisions will start. You know what I mean? And the reality is you got to snap your fucking self out of that. You got to fucking put your parachute back on and get the fuck back on that airplane. I had plenty of those jumps. I've cut away more. Fuck, I had a cutaway training for D-Day last year. Fucking put my cutaway.
You can see how fucking low I am and everything. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I have procedures. I have another parachute. Like, we're all going to die. Am I going to let it ruin my day kind of thing? Like, let's fucking move on. You know what I mean?
You can see how fucking low I am and everything. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I have procedures. I have another parachute. Like, we're all going to die. Am I going to let it ruin my day kind of thing? Like, let's fucking move on. You know what I mean?
You can see how fucking low I am and everything. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I have procedures. I have another parachute. Like, we're all going to die. Am I going to let it ruin my day kind of thing? Like, let's fucking move on. You know what I mean?
I think that comes with what I just said is the core of a person. And I think this is what the Army is really good at is developing this core, right? In this core, right? How do I develop your confidence? Well, I don't fucking know. I couldn't even define fucking confidence because I went to the Chicago public fucking school system. But I could tell you this.
I think that comes with what I just said is the core of a person. And I think this is what the Army is really good at is developing this core, right? In this core, right? How do I develop your confidence? Well, I don't fucking know. I couldn't even define fucking confidence because I went to the Chicago public fucking school system. But I could tell you this.
I think that comes with what I just said is the core of a person. And I think this is what the Army is really good at is developing this core, right? In this core, right? How do I develop your confidence? Well, I don't fucking know. I couldn't even define fucking confidence because I went to the Chicago public fucking school system. But I could tell you this.
If I taught you to rally race car drive... And you got pretty fucking good at it. If I taught you jujitsu, eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. I show you skydiving. Eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. Right. Why is because every one of these things I showed you world class level and we brought world champions in to show you. Right. Eventually you're going to gain confidence.
If I taught you to rally race car drive... And you got pretty fucking good at it. If I taught you jujitsu, eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. I show you skydiving. Eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. Right. Why is because every one of these things I showed you world class level and we brought world champions in to show you. Right. Eventually you're going to gain confidence.
If I taught you to rally race car drive... And you got pretty fucking good at it. If I taught you jujitsu, eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. I show you skydiving. Eventually you're pretty fucking good at it. Right. Why is because every one of these things I showed you world class level and we brought world champions in to show you. Right. Eventually you're going to gain confidence.
It's the taking your daughter to karate or little kids, the jujitsu. They have confidence that other kids don't have. Right.
It's the taking your daughter to karate or little kids, the jujitsu. They have confidence that other kids don't have. Right.
It's the taking your daughter to karate or little kids, the jujitsu. They have confidence that other kids don't have. Right.
that's what you got to build so it takes a lot of different skills and getting guys good at a lot of different skills to build that fucking unshakable core you know what i'm saying yeah yeah and it's it's a matter of when do you introduce them to like extreme adversity do you build them up slowly right right and it has to be built slowly right and then we used to say this like um