Brian Johnson
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No Bad Teams Only Bad Leaders
No Bad Teams Only Bad Leaders
5:27
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
26:04
Become a True Believer
Become a True Believer
26:29
Become a True Believer
26:29
Working with Iraqi Soldiers
Working with Iraqi Soldiers
28:03
I Mean We They Could Figure Out Ways To Open Gates or Doors That We Didn't Really Know that Weren't Familiar with Where Our Guys Would Smash It down the Sledgehammer Explosive Charge but Yeah They Could Very Quietly Slip a New Place You Know They Could Pick Out Who the Bad Guys Were from Their Dialect or Their Dress When I Certainly Couldn't Do that You Know Who's Who Here You Know Who's Who's Local and Who's from Syria or some You Know Who's Jihadi That Came In from Saudi Arabia or Someplace like that so They Could Do that and They Brought that to the Table and They Enable Us To Go Out and Do Make a Huge Difference in the Battlefield
I Mean We They Could Figure Out Ways To Open Gates or Doors That We Didn't Really Know that Weren't Familiar with Where Our Guys Would Smash It down the Sledgehammer Explosive Charge but Yeah They Could Very Quietly Slip a New Place You Know They Could Pick Out Who the Bad Guys Were from Their Dialect or Their Dress When I Certainly Couldn't Do that You Know Who's Who Here You Know Who's Who's Local and Who's from Syria or some You Know Who's Jihadi That Came In from Saudi Arabia or Someplace like that so They Could Do that and They Brought that to the Table and They Enable Us To Go Out and Do Make a Huge Difference in the Battlefield
31:06
I Wanted To Be a Combat Leader I Watched every War Movie I Could I Started You Know When I Was Probably Ten or Twelve Sort Of Learn about the Seal Teams and and and that Really Drew Me To Like I Want To Be a Part of this Unit this Is a Amazing Unit with an Incredible Legacy in History this Is What I Want To Do but I Think What Could and What I Was Not Fully Prepared for Was the Violence and Chaos of Actual Combat It Is Crazy
I Wanted To Be a Combat Leader I Watched every War Movie I Could I Started You Know When I Was Probably Ten or Twelve Sort Of Learn about the Seal Teams and and and that Really Drew Me To Like I Want To Be a Part of this Unit this Is a Amazing Unit with an Incredible Legacy in History this Is What I Want To Do but I Think What Could and What I Was Not Fully Prepared for Was the Violence and Chaos of Actual Combat It Is Crazy
32:46
You Got To Be Able To Take a Step Back and Not Be Involved in the the Situations and One Way You Can Do that Too Is if if You'Ve Thought through What Life and Contingencies Might Happen before You Even Get in that Really High-Pressure Situation Then You You It's Very Easy To Prioritize and Execute before It Like I Know Exactly What the Do because Already Thought about this Before before the Pressures on before My Heart's Poundin before People Are Really Looking at Me To Make a Call What I Already Thought about that and
You Got To Be Able To Take a Step Back and Not Be Involved in the the Situations and One Way You Can Do that Too Is if if You'Ve Thought through What Life and Contingencies Might Happen before You Even Get in that Really High-Pressure Situation Then You You It's Very Easy To Prioritize and Execute before It Like I Know Exactly What the Do because Already Thought about this Before before the Pressures on before My Heart's Poundin before People Are Really Looking at Me To Make a Call What I Already Thought about that and
39:10
So We Wanted To Name Something That Was the Opposite of that So John Had this Company Echelon Front Which We Were Proud To Be a Part of and We Are Putting on Our First Ever Extreme Ownership Mustard Which Is a Leadership Conference Geared toward Anyone That Wants To Better Themselves in any Way whether You'Re a Leader whether You'Re Aspiring Leader whether You'Re a Follower whether You Just Want To Be a Better Spouse Better Parent It Doesn't Matter Whatever Walk of Life That You'Re in
So We Wanted To Name Something That Was the Opposite of that So John Had this Company Echelon Front Which We Were Proud To Be a Part of and We Are Putting on Our First Ever Extreme Ownership Mustard Which Is a Leadership Conference Geared toward Anyone That Wants To Better Themselves in any Way whether You'Re a Leader whether You'Re Aspiring Leader whether You'Re a Follower whether You Just Want To Be a Better Spouse Better Parent It Doesn't Matter Whatever Walk of Life That You'Re in
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