A Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Explains How A Lesson From The Hardest Exercise In SEAL Training Served Him Over 37 Years In The Military

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A Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Explains How A Lesson From The Hardest Exercise In SEAL Training Served Him Over 37 Years In The Military

by Business Insider - Richard Feloni · April 28, 2017
 

Retired US Navy Admiral William McRaven had an esteemed 37-year military career — which included leading the assassination of Osama bin Laden — but it was his time in Navy SEAL training after college that gave him his leadership philosophy.
 
In 2014, McRaven gave the commencement address at the University of Texas at Austin, breaking down the 10 biggest lessons he learned in the six months of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs training in his early 20s, and how they were universally applicable.

http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/04/a-retired-u-s-navy-admiral-explains-how-a-lesson-from-the-hardest-exercise-in-seal-training-served-him-over-37-years-in-the-military/

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I listened to him on the radio, explain "make your bed," as a means of building mental and physical discipline.

Anyone that has never been exposed to training, through scouting, camp, sports, military etc. has missed out.

I had a lot of it growing up. Dad wartime vet. Uncle career military. My father saw to it that whatever activity could be introduced to me, was so done.

I went through a US Marine corps program as a teen, called "Devil Pups," and that was one of the toughest things ever. Like Basic Training for 14-17 year olds. Some of the boys cried.

http://devilpups.com/history-of-devil-pups/how-we-began/