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It's almost like you say.
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You know, look, Navy Seals aren't superheroes.
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I've just been trained to do this job really well, and we do it really well.
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Whereas a lot of other seals and I've had a few on, I don't know, I always we feel like there is this superhero air about it, and you seem to kind of cut through and just say, Hey, I can talk about my things and were highly trained, But I'm also kind of a normal guy.
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I don't know.
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Do I get that vibe from you difference?
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Or is that is that you and your personality?
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You know, I get asked all the time about the seal community, and I am always asked about my career and my take on speaking about my own career.
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I feel I feel that truly you should be judged by your peers, and I actually shouldn't be able to give you a grade on.
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You know, If I were to give you an academic grade on my career from a to F, I would give myself a C or a C minus.
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And now that's not to say that I wasn't surrounded by people who did seem like superheroes because I personally felt that way.
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I was surrounded by people who were more physically capable than me.
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They were much more intelligent and articulate than me.
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They were better at shooting at decision making, admission, planning it, Scott, fill in the blank.
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So there are certainly are There are people out there on both ends of the spectrum.
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You know, the seal community is a bell curve.
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There is a bottom 10% and there is a top 10% and then 80% or so in the middle.
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And, you know, perhaps you have sat down with more people who were at the top end of the bell curve.
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When you're sitting down and talking with me, we're going towards the other end of the bell curve.
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I'm the guy who tried to have a career is a gray man, somebody who didn't arrive on any radar screen of any kind.
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I tried to do my job.
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I tried to do my job well, I tried to enable mission success and not hold the people back who are around me.
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But I didn't really feel capable of doing much more than that.
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So there certainly are what I would consider to be some superheroes in that community.
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I just don't feel like I am one myself.