i had a guy who was a new guy came to work for me when i was at seal team seven and he was a hard-working kid up ready to move sandbags fill sandbags move steal around dump ammo pick up ammo whatever i need to do finally after a couple weeks and i’m not too impressed you have to be a really hard worker to impress me and after a few weeks i said to him i said hey man you’re because i he had kind of just shown up in my platoon he didn’t go through our work up or anything he was a new guy just showed up in iraq showed up in iraq and he’s working his ass off and i look at him one day and i said hey you’re you’re a hard worker where are you from and he said i grew up in a dairy farm in minnesota and i said well i appreciate your hard work he said sir i’ll do whatever you want me to do as long as it doesn’t have anything to do with cows and he told me his schedule he was up at four o’clock in the morning every day to milk cows get get home in the afternoon after wrestling practice milk cows and it was i don’t know what he had with 300 or 400 cows he had to milk so the dairy farm seems to breed some hard work yeah well you know after uh practice whether it was baseball or football or whatever it happened to be my dad said i’ll see you at the farm and so i would jog from the high school uh up up moral street to the farm you know uh and uh and did whatever he asked me to do up on the farm right and so when i got to basic training and met sergeant mules my uh my basic training drill instructor um uh you want me to make my bed you want me to do this you want me to do that yeah you know i was up before he threw the trash can down the aisle right because that’s just the way it was and um and he you know he would say to me bolton you don’t sleep i go and i’d say well uh drill sergeant i do sleep but i don’t require much right and you know so yeah that kind of hard work did it and then the discipline that the nuns instilled in me i mean come on right it’s just sister lucille right i mean she sounds scary she is scary she was a flaming redheaded nun that just scared the hell out of me and um and she got her pound of flesh out of me uh but were you an athlete in high school i was yeah what sports did you yeah i played football baseball and basketball and i was told you’re too small to play football but by my sophomore year i was i was starting on the varsity team too short to play basketball but i was a starting guard on the basketball team uh i was they told me i couldn’t pitch but i ended up being a pitcher because my arms were too short and and i wasn’t tall enough and i couldn’t get a good stretch off the mound but you know so uh i think the farmer and me uh you know don’t tell me i can’t do something kind of thing right because i’m going to try and prove you wrong
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