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I'm a big fan of economist Milton Freidman.
I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.
General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.
If any country deserves American support, Ukraine does.
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.
Fighter pilots and special operations forces guys have the same DNA.
The Special Operations community is rooted in unconventional warfare.
Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.
A good decision executed quickly is better than a great one never executed.
There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.
Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
Benghazi is important because it demonstrates all that is wrong in Washington.
It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.
As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.
It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.
It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.
I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.
I'm real careful doing public appearances because look at what happened to my friend Chris Kyle.
Too often, it's the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.
Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.
The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.
The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.
Unconventional warfare needs to remain the heart and soul of U.S. Special Operations Command and component commands.
World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.
My big problem with Hillary and the Department of State where Benghazi is concerned is there is just no accountability.
Like it or not, Jesse Ventura is a Navy SEAL. He did the pushups and put up with the cold water, just like the rest of us.
I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.
A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.
With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.
Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.
What is SOCOM's mission statement in two sentences? Most people I know in SOF cannot recite it. If it's not clear from the bottom up, then it's a problem.
Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.
Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.
Special-purpose dogs have been a critical component for police and military work in the current war on terror. These dogs are some of the bravest animals on the planet.
After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.
The guys who don't make it through SEAL training are the Rambo wannabes. If you cannot work in a team format but also function autonomously, you won't last for very long.
While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in the U.S.A.' where national security is concerned.
The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.
It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.
The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.
Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly maneuverable and use it as a competitive advantage.