Good morning, everybody.

Hope you had a good weekend.

I hope you're ready for an awesome episode today.

It's not very frequently that I'm able to sit down from somebody in my old career path from Naval Special Warfare.

John Fussell is my guest today.

Fuss is, I would say, his nickname.

And he is one of four seals in his family. Let's start

with that. What kind of overachieving bullshit is that right there, right? Obviously, somebody's

family won the genetic lottery. I'm slightly jealous. I don't have three other brothers.

My sister definitely would not have made it through training. So,

you know, he's got that. He has the correct lineup, I think it would be. And although people think

the sale community is small, which I guess it is in comparison to the Navy in and of itself,

a lot of people, you don't know a lot of people, especially if you're separated

by coasts. And honestly, if you're separated by teams, you might have heard somebody's name or have

some idea of who they are, but having never met them. And that's actually the case for Fuss and I,

I never had the chance to really spend any time with him. I think I had heard of him or his name,

but sitting down with him for a few hours was the longest I've ever been able to sit and

discuss our shared experiences. He started off enlisted as well, went to OCS or officer candidate

school. So he actually has higher education. So we kind of took the same path, but he did it through

actually educating himself and having a degree. I do not. I barely graduated high school and found

a program that would allow me to commission absent having a degree, which I think they've shut down,

hopefully not due to myself. Storyed career ended up at a national mission level command in charge of operational and maneuvering elements.

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