193: Operational Excellence. The Last Vietnam SEAL to be on Active Duty, Kirby Horrell
Jocko Podcast
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.8 • 31.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
0:00:00 – Opening
0:03:58 – Master Chief Kirby Horrell
1:42:00 – A new Mission
1:59:56 – Final thoughts.
2:00:46 – How to stay on THE PATH.
2:22:14 - Closing Gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocco podcast number one ninety three with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. |
| 0:09.0 | I... |
| 0:11.0 | I often say that I was raised in the SEAL teams. |
| 0:17.0 | And I was actually, I mean... |
| 0:20.0 | I didn't join the Navy until I was 18 years old. |
| 0:24.0 | But once I was in, the teams was the only thing I knew. |
| 0:28.0 | And when I got in, what happened when you got to a team was you got in line. |
| 0:37.0 | You got on board with the program. |
| 0:41.0 | You got taught how to act. |
| 0:44.0 | Not just how to fire a maneuver, not just how to shoot, move and communicate. |
| 0:49.0 | You got taught how to act. |
| 0:52.0 | How to carry yourself. |
| 0:54.0 | The attitude you're supposed to have. |
| 0:57.0 | You got turned into a frogman. |
| 1:02.0 | Now there was no... |
| 1:05.0 | There was no explicit course of instructions. |
| 1:09.0 | No one's given classes on mental toughness or anything like that. |
| 1:13.0 | But you were... |
| 1:15.0 | You were indoctrinated in other ways. |
| 1:18.0 | You were taught... |
| 1:20.0 | The old ways. |
| 1:23.0 | And you heard stories. |
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