10 Life Lessons From A Navy Seal

[m314]

"#1. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed."

Bullshit. The military likes to give you mindless busy work to keep you occupied. It was the same way when I was in the Army. It gives you an artificial sense of accomplishment while accomplishing nothing. That's all it is, mindless busy work that accomplishes nothing.

If you want to start your day doing something productive, write down (or type into your phone) a list of things to get done that day. Make the list every morning, and finish each task by the end of the day. Once a week make a list of everything you plan to accomplish that week. Once a month, go over your list of longer term goals to make sure you're on track to getting where you want to be.

The military won't teach you this, because it involves independent thinking and planning. They prefer to do all the thinking and planning for you.

 

[Stoner4Life]

If i need to accomplish something worthwhile first thing in the morning i can always take a shit...

I can only assume some sort of correlation
of that statement and your username.......

 

[stoned-trout]

todays list ..go kayaking,go fishing ,drink beer and flirt with tourist babes.....tough day

 

[red rider]

I served in the Army for 3 years. Never went to war but trained everyday for it, I have the upmost respect for all who serve because I know how hard it is. For the last 35 years the first thing I do is make my bed and I will till I can't do it any more. It's all good training!

 

[FLAgreenthumb]

Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was your bed.

If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack—rack—that’s Navy talk for bed.

It was a simple task—mundane at best. But every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that were aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle hardened SEALs—but the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over.
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I'm sorry but i have to call you out.... I believe you may have been in the Navy as i was... but not a seal.... The bed making thing is something you go through in bootcamp... and your RDC tells you over and over what the evolution is about... Attention to detail, nothing more.... and its not just your rack, its your locker also... all inspected at the same time..... we used to try to keep the same dungarees in our locker, and then the ones we wore we kept under our rack... soak them with starch then put them under the rack...haha
There is no such thing as "basic seal training"..lol People wanting to be seals go through normal basic training(they did disappear every once in awhile for extra PT) , then normal A-school
(even spec warfare learns a normal job..lol), then BUDS....
Which is basic underwater demolition school.... afte buds, if you pass, you are ordered into a billet for either EOD or a seal team...
At least this is how it was in 1996... I was not spec warfare, I was an avionics guy in a helo squadron, but there were two guys in my bootcamp division that were in the spec warfare program...
I appreciate the spirit of your post, but....

 

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[watts]

FLAgreenthumb, i believe yort copied/pasted an article from another website at the time. He didn't mean to imply that he was a Navy Seal.

 

[subrob]

To all the naysayers and pacifists and keyboard jockeys..
1) military service ain't for everyone but neither is pacifism
2) many people serve their country in peace time and war out of a real sense of duty..if everyone thought and acted like they don't give a fuck their whole lives this country would be shit that would make the current shit look like whipped cream
3)vets seem to feel and show more empathy towards folks w differing views than vice versa..but that shouldn't be surprising considering one way or another they were called to serve on behalf of others
4) the military doesn't promise to make you a better person..they promise to break youndown and teach you to kill on their behalf...so we don't need no civilians pointing out the ole brainwashing whine to us...we know more about it than you!

 

[shithawk420]

Wait what!?your a seal and a master chef yort? Damn that's awesome!

 

[dddaver]

"If you want to change the world" kinda thew me right there. It indicates that everything is a mess now and although that might be true it always will be to somebody.

Wouldn't "If you want to make this world a better place to live in" be a better mantra to strive for?

 

[D. B. Doober]

military was cool until I mess cooked and then I got in trouble and had to do more mess cooking. It was bullshit.

 

[stoned-trout]

don't join the navy if you got issues with gay people ......lol

 

[subrob]

Does the navy have more queers than the other branches or is that just a shot at their uniforms? Haha

 

[D. B. Doober]

homersexuals

 

[stoned-trout]

ok heres the deal ..confine a bunch of guys in a small space ,regulate them a lot an see what happens..just sayin ........ok some bisexuals too...and no all navy guys aint gay some are more badass and straight than anyone...but what happens on the ship stays on the ship ...lol just playing guys but I been on a lot of ports and no not hitting sailers for cash,my sails don't fly that way..some of you bought bath salts from me....

 

[MJBadger]

Instructors in the military are just sadistic pricks that like to belittle everybody . If you have a brainless arsehole that likes to bully people this has to be the perfect job .
I never gave a thought to joining any of the forces because I know I would top any shit that treated me like that .

 

[subrob]

Being a drill instructer is a temporary duty ...some volunteer and some do it because they have to..not many are allowed to make it a permanent duty...but it is a rock solid way to advance in a enlisted career...brainless assholes wouldn't make it thru drill instructer training..and don't seem the type to think about advancing.....and don't forget D.I. training is harder to deal with and assimilate than basic..
I figured you meant that as an opinion..but it sounded like a fact..and facts should be viewed from both sides..
...
Trout...I just think those navy whites are craycray metero...

 

[dddaver]

All joking aside, when I was in Kosovo I got paired to work with this flaming Navy dude. He made no attempt to hide his ...bent, but never came on to me, was totally professional and knew his shit. That was pretty much all I cared about anyway. And he was allowed to carry a sidearm too and I was good with that. I knew if things went sideways fast, always a possibility, he would have not hesitated to brandish it and protect us. I was good with that too because the fucking AF just issued us these big fucking cumbersome firearms that were impossible to have on you at all times and actually do work-like shit. Great for fighting, but there's a lot more than just that.

 

[subrob]

We had a gay dude in an artillery platoon attached to us...no one talked about it but it was the late eighties and dude would dress like he was in culture club off duty hours...like he didn't care if they threw him out..but he deployed to desert storm with us and at that point no one gave it a second thought..if they had worried about it in the first place..

 

[D. B. Doober]

lol Culture Club