Quitting Isn't an Option: My Life as a Navy SEAL (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Chad Williams shares his experience of training to become a Navy SEAL, only to have his mentor killed in the line of duty in Iraq. When Chad graduated the incredibly grueling SEAL training, he was faced with depression and emptiness as he contemplated his future, and became lost in drunkenness. Hear how he found a new lease on life through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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| 0:35.7 | thinking, what is that? And I think I come up with the perfect plan, sitting there in my truck, about to go to class. I go, what I'm going to do? I'm going to go become an Alaskan crab fisherman. Yeah. Deadliest catch. By far, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. I thought there's some bragging rights in that right there. And then this other idea pops to my head, I know what I want to be. I want to be a Navy SEAL. |
| 0:58.9 | Last time we heard how Chad Williams went from college dropout to Navy SEAL. |
| 1:04.1 | And we're going to hear the rest of his story today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:08.6 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:10.6 | John, as we followed Chad through the extremely grueling Navy SEAL training all the way up to |
| 1:15.9 | graduation day, we also heard about his grief over the death of his mentor and coach who had |
| 1:21.6 | returned to duty in Iraq. |
| 1:24.4 | Today, we'll hear how Chad's life took an unexpected downward turn and how he found a relationship with Jesus Christ. |
| 1:31.8 | And we're starting here with Part 2 as Chad shares how we felt immediately after the exhilaration of completing the Navy SEAL training. |
| 1:40.3 | Here's Chad Williams speaking at Wingman Ministries on today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:48.8 | It's something that we're all familiar with at least to some degree. |
| 1:51.8 | The idea that I'm not happy with where I'm at in my life right now, but I've got plans. |
| 1:57.1 | I've got goals. |
| 1:57.8 | I've got something I'm aiming at and achievement. |
| 2:00.0 | And if I could just get there, |
| 2:01.5 | if I could just get that position or that salary or that home or that relationship, my family in this |
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