This is Jocco Podcast number one 34 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, echo.

Good evening.

Maybe I was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I can see where someone could get that idea.

But I actually don't think that.

I don't think that at all.

It's in fact quite the opposite.

Now, looking back, of course, there were some...

some tough times.

There were some awful times.

I'd even go so far as to say there were some wretched times.

There were nights filled with discomfort and stress and fear.

And there was pressure.

And sometimes that pressure was so great that I thought my mind just might fracture and break apart.

But fortunately, I could tell you that I didn't break.

There were times when I saw the cracks.

I saw the cracks starting to split open and I had to work hard to keep it together.

But that's the way it was in my old line of work.

My old line of work had some definite downsides.

Because on top of all that pressure and stress and fear and discomfort, there was death.

Even during peacetime.

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