SEAL of God

Freedom isn’t free,”

But SEALs are trained to protect and preserve life first and foremost.

One reason I sliced the challenges ahead into small pieces that I could actually see ahead of me, such as with the seaweed, was that part of the instructors’ psychological strategy was never to tell us when an evolution would end.

It pays to be a winner.”

Watching those who quit before even confronting the first wave was an attention-grabbing demonstration of how powerful fear of the unknown could be.

It turned out that they would come from all over the room. About a year later, at the end of our training, only thirteen of the original 173 would have persevered all the way through to our SEAL class’s graduation.

BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL

Wow, I thought, where are those quitters going to come from?

Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand.

but I saw no real need to change