in the teams what were the biggest reputation builders or killers and for those who don’t know in the teams and i guess it’s the same anywhere but it definitely is true in the teams man your reputation is uh is everything it’s everything and people know who you are they know if you do something stupid and like really stupid in the teams that’s everybody everybody knows a second everyone knows it forever yeah like uh if you have an accidental discharge with meaning meaning if you shoot your gun when you weren’t supposed to and there may be some scenarios where there’s a little bit of leeway on that but if you just do it in a dumb situation everybody’s gonna know about it forever yeah and it’s just like you might as well just get a tattoo on your forearm that says hey i had an ad on this date yeah in your forehead if you do something stupid you know something that could get you in trouble like just dumb yeah you’re probably gonna just everyone’s gonna know about it they’re always gonna think about it if you get if you get fired from a position and you happen to not get kicked out of the teams everybody’s gonna everybody knows i’ll just get out yup yeah it’s it’s it’s a tough community when it comes to reputation it’s a world oh it’s really cool it’s it’s wicked brutal like yeah you know every it’s like a small town yeah everybody knows everything even though you’re on other coasts yep i mean i’ve done a lot of stupid [ __ ] in my career and i was a jerk off and dumb dumb stuff and been an idiot and everybody knows all that yeah you know yeah you know most of the stuff that you did fortunately is kind of uh is like on the okay side yeah i don’t know i don’t know how to explain this but like oh oh yeah tony got drunk and got a fight at this thing yeah you’re like oh yeah yeah it’s almost made a big spectacle at the big to-do with the uniforms and stuff wouldn’t it have like to do with like the things that you kind of can’t do or you can’t get away with or it’ll affect your reputation in a bad way wouldn’t it have more to do with how good of a team you are you know what you’re right you just called it right you know what it has to do with is it something that hit that helped or is it something that is operational or not yeah something that’s operational everybody knows like if you i mean even like you’ll hear about a guy that gets lost in buds in in you or like gets lost going through the initial training but when he got to the team he gets on land on land navigation and gets lost and has to get rescued bro that’s just it’s just gonna stick with you forever like like i remember you know i remember getting like three briefs about some guy that i was getting in a platoon about where this guy got lost how stupid it was you know there was a highway he could have walked the highway you could hear the cars everyone just made a spectacle out of this kid and i mean the kid got out because eventually you go man i just can’t have this is horrible everybody just thinks i can’t and so yeah so this question is actually is actually a decent question because that definitely does play a big thing so for me and it’s the basis for a lot of nicknames on the team true true you know true yeah if you do something that’s um excessively stupid or or just have bad luck like one of my favorite ones is bush you know bush acus yeah but he he like was parachuting and when he first got to the teams as a new guy and in his parachute he landed in uh in uh what kind of bush was that some kind of a bush with thorns and what yeah parachute got all tangled up and he got was stuck in there the guy’s that’s his name he’s great too he’s an awesome guy yeah for certain bush the other funny thing is there’s team guys where you don’t even know what their real name was actually i was kind of like that nobody knew what my actual name was mine was just jocko and that was just that was my civilian nickname that my parents gave me but the funniest was there was a guy and i’ll just tell the story there was a guy and you know him because i do but uh but anyways his name was al and i was always in his name yeah and i was like you know i knew it was al and then he was a heavy weapons instructor so we called him big al and then we called him big al 50 cal yeah cal for like eight years right and one day i’m like uh you know we’re talking and i we’re doing some we’re going on a trip or something i knew his name cuz i was in a couple platoons yeah i did paperwork yeah so i i finally get to paperwork and this guy was also a real quiet guy i mean real professional real quiet didn’t say much and uh one day i’m doing the paperwork and i go hey man i’m like looking at the list of people that’s coming i go hey man i thought you were going on this trip with us and he’s like he’s like yeah yeah i’m going and i go oh you’re not on the manifest here and he goes no and he comes over he points out his name and his name is keith yeah and i go i go i go bro i go your name is keith i go you want it that’s a mistake you don’t want me to get a change and he goes no no that’s my name and i go i thought your name was al i go is al your middle name and he goes he goes no al’s is not my name at all and i go i go what do you mean why does every single person call you al and he goes well he goes well in my first platoon i was out doing something it was night and i was i guess i was looking around and moving my head a lot like an owl and so the guys started calling me owl and then over the next platoon that changed from owl it just murphed into owl wow and then his name was al and i literally would have told you this guy’s name was al and and he never corrected it he just you know hey whatever you call me al that’s close enough so i thought bf or somebody named him so that’s big al 50 cal uh but you know what his reputation was because there was a question about reputation his reputation was awesome because he was solid he was a he was a former marine wasn’t he uh i was he no that was 295 oh okay 295 was in the core but but you know solid reputation so for me and i i guess i mean it’s it’s what you do operationally is what builds your reputation and if you’re a good shooter if you’re not you know shoot shooting like an idiot um not but you know if you can patrol well if you have good field craft all those things the real things right it’s kind of cool that’s what’s kind of cool that’s one thing that’s in the teams that’s that’s hard for them to erase is what’s your real reputation as a real operator as an operator team guy that’s the thing that all these people that that kind of come and go in the teams and it’s it’s maybe it’s not they’re not real real team guys you can’t fake that you know and when guys get some guys get shot blown up you know wounded and some of them can’t operate anymore it’s not like we throw them to the wolves they want to stay in the teams we keep them and take care of them and some become phenomenal instructors and yeah and just go on and do great things yeah i had uh they were going to keep they if if ryan job would have want to stay they were going to keep a cuss yeah yeah absolutely oh you’re blind cool yeah great yeah doesn’t mean you can’t listen to me when i say go do this [Laughter] yeah awesome and and then contrary to that obviously the killers are when you uh when you screw up stuff operationally the other thing is if you’re an arrogant egotistical guy you’d be everyone’s going to hate you yeah and you’re going to last long because if you’re because there’s some guys that are great skill wise they’re great operators but they’re horrible to work with they’re arrogant they don’t listen to anybody they’re not humble and those guys will have a bad reputation too they got blind is on yeah they can’t open the you know and you gotta if you want to evolve at all they’ll stay alive you know
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