Best of TNQ - Will Chesney: Retired Navy SEAL K9 Handler who helped take down Bin Laden, Author of Best Selling Book “No Ordinary Dog”

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, you will hear the incredible story of the mission to locate and kill Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade center by one of two dozen Navy SEALs, Will Chesney, who was a K9 handler in that operation. Will’s dog, “Cairo”, was instrumental in helping to successfully accomplish the mission. After that mission, only one name was made public: Cairo’s.

Will’s story is one of an irrevocable tie to his dog, as well as straightforward talk about his personal struggles with depression, migraines, chronic pain, and memory loss.

In this episode you will hear:

On SEAL Team 4, I got the trifecta: Com, Sniper, and Gen Tech. I loved it.
Being part of that mission was like being part of a movie.
When you’re going through a tough time, don’t quit. Reach out to somebody.
There’s so many good people out there. There’s so many modalities for help.
Try something – give it a good shot – if that doesn’t work, try something else.
Get on your knees and pray to God every day.
Try to do good things. Help people out.
How many times do you get to go home? How many minutes do you get to spend with family? Don’t live to regret not reaching out to your family more.
You can go away at any time. If you don’t keep up – if you don’t perform. If you’re not an asset, but a liability – you’re fired.
When I got to the point that I was a liability, after so many great guys and years of my life - to walk away from that - that was amazing. This is my family.
The biggest thing I got from all my experiences is my connection with God.
I love dogs, and I’ll take on that [dog handling] responsibility to save a friend.
Everybody that had something to do with that mission: from the intel to almost dying in a helicopter crash, was incredible. Even with all that, the way things flowed was incredible.

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0:57.0	Alright everybody, welcome back to the TNG Podcast. I'm your host Marcus LaTrell. Every week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to your greatness.
1:08.0	Join me every week and I take you into my freaking room with some of the most hard charge of people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the suck of life, teach you the values of working your ass off and charge to whatever life throws at you.
1:20.0	This is the team never quit podcasts. The fuck the love buttercup.
1:27.0	Hello there team never quit nation. Welcome back to another episode of the team never quit podcasts. My name is Andrew joined by Marcus and Morgan LaTrell.
1:42.0	We're excited today to have Will Chesney on today's show. He's a Navy seal the author of no ordinary dog, which shares the story of Will's canine partner Cairo friendship and historic bin Laden raid.
1:53.0	But before we get to that interview, we got a patreon question to the day Marcus Morgan, dusty asks, why did you guys not join the Navy right after high school.
2:02.0	Our high school guidance council council told us we were too stupid to go to college and said, hey, you guys go to go to go to a trade school. I wanted to be a naval officer.
2:12.0	Yeah, high school guidance counselor is like, yes, you guys aren't built for academia. You should go to a trade school.
2:18.0	Or and they said join military. I wanted to be an officer, a naval officer eventually and I never had to have a college degree to do that.
2:26.0	Okay, so I didn't want to do any of that in the beginning, but he's the older brother. So you kind of called the shot. So we kind of started going down that route and college is great social experiment as well.
2:36.0	I mean, kind of gets you out of the house. We, I mean, we still have the friends we had from college and it just teach you a little bit more by yourself or you can just get shot going straight into it with us. It took a little bit of time and we had a lot of fun.
2:49.0	Yeah, make no mistake about it. College was not an educational experience.
2:57.0	It was out. It was out. It was out. Go away from what we were used to and becoming men and living on our own and learning to network and survive.
3:10.0	While we stuck it out because I graduated with a 2.03 GPA. I last time I class and we kind of did the education thing the back way went out and did all the hardest stuff in the beginning.
3:22.0	Then he went to college to see how much you learn through life and obviously get my brother. He obviously picked up a lot of stuff.
3:28.0	I didn't.
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