This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode three with Darrell Cooper and me, Jocco Willink.

Let's keep going. I know where I want to pick up. If you have somewhere, you can go first.

I want to know what little Jocco, little Seaman Her Crute Willink, who joined in 1990, you taught us last episode.

You come into the SEAL teams in the 1990s and if you're a warrior looking for a war, the 90s are a little bit of a dead zone for you.

Well, you got to remember partially accurate, but as we already talked about, warrior looking for a war in the delayed entry program through the summer of 1990 as this build up is happening.

I'm thinking I'm going to get exactly what I asked for and I am super pumped about that.

I'm ready to rock and roll. I think that this, like I said, I'm one of the earlier podcasts. I thought there were reports that there were 40,000 casualties in the first 48 hours.

I'm like, oh, yeah, they're going to need me. They're going to need me to help win this bad boy because I'm young and dumb and ready to rock and roll.

So then when it was over, then I'm in buds and it's over in buds and it's over.

So now I'm thinking, okay, what's going to happen?

And showed up and then it was a peacetime team which is not what you dream about when you're a young lad going in the teams, going through seal training.

You think you're just going to war and I was dumb.

And so I was checking in to seal team one and I thought they were going to send me to Vietnam, like Givil, call four is over but that's okay.

Seals were rising, sneaking around the world, doing stuff everywhere.

That's just not true. It is kind of true now.

In fact, I'll go and say it is true now. Like there are things happening around the world all the time.

That's the way it is now. That's post September 11th. Pre-September 11th. There was years.

I knew guys that were master chiefs, that were in the seal teams for 30 years.

They came in in 1971 and retired in 2001 and they never fired a shot in anger.

So yeah, the 90s was not good from a perspective of wanting to go to war.

And look man, I'm sorry everybody that that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I don't know what to tell you. I guess let's be happy that I didn't want to be a criminal or I didn't want to be a gangster or I didn't want to be a murderer.

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