 Here you do not quit. There is no quitting at the Naval Special Warfare Preparatory School. It's all about the humble professional, all right? That's who we're looking for here. The coaches are great. They're actually positive motivators. The advice I would give to somebody who wanted to go through this program is to definitely come to the prep course. The evolutions we do every day, it's more than you do on your own. The bottom line mission of PTRR is getting them ready for buds, getting them ready for first phase, second phase, third phase, physically, mentally. The basic mission of the Naval Special Warfare Center is to train, seal, and switch candidates. BCT is a crash course into some of the basic fundamental boat guy skills, the physical fitness, and navigation is the biggest thing, some basic seamanship skills. I want to go out, have fun, be a boat guy, drive boats in dangerous situations, go have fun. I always thought the seals were the finest unconventional warriors the United States of America has, so I just wanted to be part of them. The small, quiet brotherhood of SWCC really appealed to me. I knew it was going to be hard, but it's just like a whole other level. Buds is hard, and for some it makes it even possible. For some they're going to fall on their faces a bit, but I think that is setting them up for success. The body aches and pains, but it's worth it. You start playing mind games with yourself and you just have to talk yourself out of it. Seals can't be mass produced. It takes time for you to develop a competent seal. It's all about teamwork. One guy doesn't keep up with the rest of the group, makes it a lot harder for the other six guys in your boat crew, so timing and teamwork. We're not here for attrition. We're here to make sure that the right guys make it to the seal teams, and who knows better what is needed in the seal teams than a guy that was there. They push me a little bit harder than I'm used to being pushed, and they make me really, really try hard. You're looking for character. Things that you really can't teach, things that are just there. Things that's there, you can form everything around that. My heart's in it. There's just nothing that's going to stop me, so this is a job I want to do, and I'm not going to lose this opportunity in my life. Some of the evolutions are actually pretty fun. Rock portage is a favorite of mine. Coming in, riding the waves in, and getting the boat up and over, it's a good time. They can endure 10, 15, 20 times the amount of pain and discomfort that they thought they could. When a light bulb comes on, they realize that we really can't hurt them. That they can push past any amount of pain and discomfort and physical barrier that we put in front of them, that they can attain the standard that we're looking for. When that light bulb starts to come on, it's pretty impressive. This is a monumental challenge. We're just at the beginning of it, and it's just going to get bigger and better as it goes on from here. What we do is we start off with them in a classroom environment, with the equipment in front of them, bare bones, basic, and we put it together from attaching the battery to an antenna, pushing each button, and we do it alongside them with them. It's a reward when you see that they actually picked up your knowledge. I wanted to do something a bit more exciting, and this, every day, it fulfills my appetite for excitement. We're kind of close to the home stretch. Out through buds, jump school, seer school, all the other schools we have to go to before we get to SQT. Now, there's a reason they call this the finishing school, you know, we're polishing it up. The sense of brotherhood is what I want them to leave here with, because when they leave here, they're representing us. They're representing a small unit, an elite unit that has a huge heritage and history behind it, and a lot of respect from a lot of people. So when they go forth and go out in the world and meet people, they're not only representing themselves, they're representing every one of us, and the tradition that the CO teams have been built on. The idea here is to get guys ready for cold weather training, and we're setting guys up to be able to move through anything they might face, learn to survive, ready to fight anytime you need to. The training we're doing out here is real, I mean it's intense, it's not the instructors kind of, they teach you everything they need to know, but there's a certain point where you're on your own and it's you and your guys. Well this week out here we were learning pretty much how to stay safe and shoot movement, communicate together as a team, and how to check your buddies to the left and right of you, how to stay safe and pretty much work as a team. Today is the culmination of 64 weeks of the most physically and mentally challenging training conducted within the U.S. military and the free world. You know I pretty much earned the trident for America and I got to earn it for my team. Any time you can put the skill set that he has together with passion, you see what the product is, and I'm extremely proud of him. Buds and SQT, they're the foundation, they're the platform to get you to this point, but right now you're beginning, you're a journeyman on this quest to become a warrior for America. Something special, something to lead to be proud of, whether you're a boat guy or you're a seal. Well I do love this country and I'm very patriotic and I'm proud to serve the military, but at the same time I knew what I wanted to do, how to be the pinnacle of what I can perform and joining the Naval Special Warfare was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to be the best of the best.