John Reeves
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah. I used to teach tandem jumping and bundle jumping in the military. And I don't know if you ever see my social media, but like I'm in the sky flying and there's a huge barrel under me. I used to teach that. And what would happen is if you had a bad jump, you know, bundle jump. You would have to cut away. And we called it the nightmare, right? And you got to end the nightmare.
And this thing starts spinning you out of control. It'll be so many Gs that you'll pass out. The parachute will open later, right? You'll be fine. But... We used to tell guys, right, like fucking end that nightmare. Make sense? Now, you're the captain of the ship, so a guy would have to end this nightmare however he ended the nightmare, right?
And then what would happen is afterwards we'd review the video and I'd have to show a guy, right? And then we'd leave him in the classroom for a minute and we'd tell him, hey, gather your emotions. whatever you need to do, and then get on the next plane.
Get fucking back on that next plane.
You know what I mean? And guys would do that. You know what I mean? A lot more SEALs needed that time than, like, unit guys, because unit guys, like... Yo, I'll fly this motherfucker up your ass. We ain't going to have no problems today, son. You know what I mean? What's the difference? I don't know. I think the difference is that the unit is always more mature than SEALs. It's an older culture.
It's older guys. uh, more experienced guys, more methodical guys, more planned out. Um, so like in a, a lot of times, like, you know, younger guys, normally the seals, they'll have their jump numbers, but they're like their core, their, what makes you, you confidence, dexterity, strength, fucking health, um, It ain't there yet. And they kind of freak out once in a while. Younger guys.
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. 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?
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.
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
aircraft training right let's say you got a breaching airplane right and you got to climb a fucking 20 foot ladder because these motherfuckers ain't low to the ground right and you're hanging on a ladder and you weigh fucking 280 pounds in your shit but you're on these fucking ladders with fucking six other guys who all weigh the same as you or more and
You got to crack the door, get the fuck in this airplane, right? Now, let's just say this is your first time and you crack that door the first time. And as an instructor, I know you're cracking the door. And as soon as you crack that door, I fucking shoot you in the face. You know what I mean? Yeah. And with the training round, right? How fucking embarrassing, right?
And then the reality is, yo, you just ruined this motherfucker forever.
Mechanical or explosive.
Sometimes we open doors. Sometimes we blow doors. It depends. So which one you want to know about?
Yeah, most doors have a lever on the outside that can be activated. And most doors, there's a certain way they open, right? My team, I was always kind of like a primary door guy. And then there's a certain way doors open. There's latches. So all airplane doors open from the outside.
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