This is Jockel Podcast number 314 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, I go.

Good evening.

The machine rolls on.

That's what happens when your time is up and you leave, the machine is going to roll

on.

And that can be, can be hard on your brain, can be hard on your ego.

It can also just be hard because you love the teams.

You care about the boys.

And when you leave, you worry about the void that is there.

And you think, who's going to fill that void?

And you wonder if you did a good enough job passing on what you learned.

And that's rough.

It was, that was one of the hardest things for me.

When I left, when I got out of the Navy, because my whole life, my whole adult life had been

in the SEAL teams, I was full on institutionalized by the SEAL teams.

I didn't know anything else in the world.

And I couldn't help but feel that I was leaving them hanging, leaving my friends hanging

that I was letting them down.

But the reality is that the machine rolls on.

And there are guys that are ready to step up and take your place and take things to the

next level and do a better job.

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