if you had to pick one driving characteristic that separates a dominant alpha team guy from everyone else what in the teams what is it well if guys in the teams you got to know this but a lot of people out there don’t that like pretty much everyone’s an alpha male you know you know it’s like nobody gives up the argument ever you know and usually it’s you know wrestling or fighting and it always works itself out but i think uh one thing i we were talking about is gimmicks like a lot of people in the teams i call it a gimmick everybody’s good at everything pretty much and does the job but some people like just insane skydivers some guys are just phenomenal rock climbers some guys are just like swimming sons of guns you know runners and wrestlers and fist fighters and there’s you know some people just in the guns i mean that’s their passion some people are just phenomenal divers you know and i was i was always pretty good at everything but not great you know i couldn’t outrun everybody i could not fight everybody i couldn’t out swim everybody could not shoot everybody and i just i i think mine was like tactics and just being as hard as i could and it i i may have made it look easy but it wasn’t especially as i got older it’s no fun being a team guy when you’re 44 you know and you get up and you’re like all right yeah okay then i’m like i better retire i’m done with all this but yeah if that if that kind of makes sense yeah the other funny thing about that is um because in the teams no team guy ever wants to give any credit to a different team guy so if someone was like hey you know that that guy’s a really good shot and then someone immediately but yeah you ever he doesn’t know how to swim though yeah of course yeah we used to talk about always just like someone’s always ready no one’s good at everything did you work you know did you and if they can’t figure something out they’ll be like whatever [ __ ] that guy no just walk away hey where are you going yeah yeah the uh you know one thing i’ll say that is pretty cool and i already brought this up like one of the things that that separate like when i worked with that first time and i saw you like being humble i was like man that’s that to me is the characteristic that you can tell the guy is not just a good team guy but an awesome team guy when he’s humble about what’s going on and when i was putting guys through training and i know you saw this too the guys that would come through training that thought they were all badass and thought they couldn’t do anything wrong they were always bad like they never did a good job right right and then the guys that were say hey man i’m you know i’m looking forward to this training i know we need to need to get tuned up and and uh let you know let me don’t know what i can do better those guys were there taking notes they always kicked ass they always did a good job yeah so that being humble is uh well being humble too is i read a bunch of after-action reports you know in my tours over there about different situations different things and every time they were well written by some guys but it was you’ll always carry this you will always do this never do this always do that and i kind of took that an account when i wrote like a serious after action report for that deployment i wish you would have saved it too this is pretty good yeah first and foremost this is what worked for us in these months this environment this temperature with this mission set and what we had to do don’t use this as oh he said that so i’m going to do it every time no i mean use it as a guide everything that teams is a toolbox you pick it out when you need it and you use it and you put it back away and if it sits in there for 500 years it’s still worth having because the timing pull it out you’re gonna really need it yep
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