418: Keep Your Eyes on That Target Because That's Where It's Happening. With Mark Coch "Cochiolo""
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4.9 • 31.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 208 minutes
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Summary
Mark T. “Coch” Cochiolo has over 30 years of Naval Special Warfare experience ranging from Special Warfare Operator, Operational Tester, Combat developer, Officer In Charge, Training Officer and Weapons Instructor.
Coch has four operational SEAL tours of duty to the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) under his belt and has spent eight years as an assaulter and breacher on the US Navy’s tier one counter-terrorist unit making operational and combat deployments to hotspots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocko podcast number 4 18 with Carrie Helton and me Jocko Willick. |
| 0:05.0 | Good evening, Carrie. |
| 0:07.0 | I was I was raised in the seal teams and I know that at least I say that right and I know that I |
| 0:15.8 | wasn't actually raised in the seal teams but when I consider who I am today and what my values are and what my principles are what my driving forces in my personality are the vast majority of them came out from where I grew up as a |
| 0:34.7 | kid but came from the SEAL teams or more specifically from my fellow frogmen in |
| 0:41.8 | the SEAL teams and there's all kinds of different guys in the |
| 0:46.1 | teams there's the guy that worked hard or the guy that makes things happen |
| 0:50.3 | there's that tough guy. |
| 0:55.0 | the chief that looked out for the boys. |
| 0:58.4 | The officer that kept us out of trouble. |
| 1:06.5 | The guy that was awesome in the field, The guy that knew how to fight, the guy that could fix any engine. |
| 1:11.5 | The guy that asked really good questions, the serious guy, the professional guy. |
| 1:16.6 | There's just all these different individuals in the seal teams. |
| 1:18.8 | And they say that, there's that saying, I guess, I don't know what they say say but there's a saying that you are the |
| 1:23.6 | average of your five closest friends well in the teams you got a lot of |
| 1:28.4 | friends and all those guys leave a mark on you, |
| 1:32.5 | especially when you're young, right? |
| 1:34.5 | I've had many conversations with people |
| 1:36.6 | about the impression that gets imprinted on you |
| 1:41.0 | in your first platoon, and a lot of times you think that that's the way the world should be |
| 1:44.6 | is the way it was in your first platoon. |
| 1:47.1 | But it does continue to develop and you continue to change |
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