Navy SEAL: “Not Killing People Is Hard” - DJ Shipley - #1112

You've done a lot of hard things in your life. A couple. Why was getting out of the military the hardest thing that you've had to do? No one ever prepared you for it. When you get in the teams, any military, but especially special operations, it becomes your identity.

It becomes the only thing you do and it becomes a justification for everything you don't do. Like, why don't you do this? Oh, because it'll affect the end state. When you transition away from it, you never thought it was going to be hard. You thought you were gonna transition, you were gonna find that same love and passion and energy you had for being in the military, and then when you don't find it, it's a huge fall from grace.

But I mean, you hear these fairy tales of this billionaire is gonna pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to live on his ranch and to do nothing but tell war stories and shoot coyotes and whatever. You know, any any place you want to go, they'll pick you up because of your background, because of your resume and all these different things. And when you get out, you quickly realize that's all a lie. No one's going to pay you to do a compound assault. No one's going to pay you to skydive.

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