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Hey, what's going on? Welcome to another episode of Soft Rep Radio. I am your host, the man behind the glasses, rad, and I have a very special guest today, Jack Goodwin, who has joined us from the United Kingdom. Jack, welcome to the show.

All right. Good to be here. Good to see you.

Now, Jack, you have a pretty extensive military background history, athletic history. You're really just all about physical fitness and mental toughness.

What started you down the process of wanting to join the military and how old were you when you made that decision?

Very early, actually, in my early school days, I was always interested in physical training and physical activities through school and through the organization they knew K called the Boys Brigade.

And we used to do a lot of outdoor activities, physical activities, sporting activities. And I think that's what led me to the initial interest in it.

And then from there, I always wanted to be a physical PE teacher in UK through messing about a school and not getting me qualifications and exams. I thought, I'll try it in the army.

So I joined the army at 16 straight from school. One is you go straight down the physical training world, but you weren't permitted to. You have to join another another arm or another trade or another field first and then transfer into the physical training world,

because it was deemed as a, as a specialist world, very much like the Paris and the Marines and the S.A.S.

So I had to take a little bit of a longer route into it than I initially anticipated. But yeah, it was literally straight from school at 16 on you and the army.

Wow. So when I had enlisted, I met some people who were 17 and I thought, wow, you're already so self driven, right? I was 21. So I was already a little older.

So for you, you're already so self driven at such a young age and and already made a decision to the straight and narrow, if you will, right?

Like this is what I want to do with my life right now and and off you go. So you spend, you know, a few years, you joined in the 70s, right?

So are you, are you, are you Vietnam era?

Well, 73 are joined at 16. Yeah.

Yeah, so 75 was about the ending of it officially. I think Vietnam. So you kind of got in at 73.

And so you got out in about the mid late 90s, right?

Yeah, 90, I did a total time of 25 years and this charge in 1998 hold, hold in a rank of one of the class one.

And did you see a change? No, have you seen a change from the 70s to just about the 2000s in the way that, you know, either the training or the military has changed while you were there?

Dramatically, right? I mean, you know, I saw a dramatic change from when I joined in the early 70s to the end of the late 90s.

But, you know, still serving in the military all that time, you, you seem to accept those changes more because they're going on at the time you're serving.

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