John "Shrek" McPhee
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It took me like a year and a half to get to ranger school.
Our platoon had so many guys on the list.
You know what I mean?
And then you could jump the list.
Like once in a while, they'd be like, okay, random PT test, highest score amongst the private gets the next slot.
I'm not the fastest guy.
Even I could probably do the most pushups and sit-ups.
I'm not going to be the fastest guy on the run.
So like some fucking little guy running that fucking, you know, 11 minute, two miles is going to fucking crush me.
So I had to wait till my time.
Fuck, I didn't know.
No one knew.
I didn't know what that shit was back then.
You know what I mean?
They're like, you want to be a sniper?
I'm like, yes.
Why would I say no at that point?
You know what I mean?
I didn't really know what it entailed.
But I can tell you this, like,