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Now here's this week's message. Well several years ago I attended a Navy SEAL training exercise where I got to watch a team take down a building filled with enemy combatants holding hostages.

And it was a simulation, so they were using

semination rounds, paintballs, but they're shot out of real guns,

so they go fast and hard and hurt. Now, it was my understanding that I would be watching all this from the

safety of an observation deck. But I remember as the team approached the door I was

standing with their commanding officer and he motion with me to start coming with him towards the door.

And then at one moment he stopped and he goes, you know I wouldn't get any closer than this if I were you.

Sometimes when they blow that door the handle comes off like a bullet, I'd stay right here. And I was like, yeah, great.

Like I wasn't planning on being this close. But sure enough, they blew the door, they

went running in, and then he hit me in the chest and said, let's go. And he went

charging in, and so hit me in the chest and said let's go and he went charging in and so I followed him in jeans and a t-shirt and I remember as soon as I passed to that door two things hit me immediately

metaphorically speaking. The first thing was the chaos of

the situation. I mean it was flash bang, smoke everywhere, shots fired, it was bedlam. But then

the second thing that hit me

was the beauty of their strategy,

that they were aggressive but graceful.

They were purposeful, but patient.

I mean, two of them would come to a doorway and with barely a nod

they would both swing out to eliminate all threats while never being an open target

themselves and within seconds they had eliminated all threats rescued all

hostages and brought peace where there was chaos.

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