Seth Stone

And, and, uh, and it ended up being just a fantastic experience.

I was instantly thrust into leadership positions, whereas the friends of mine that got picked up for the SEAL program straight out of the Naval Academy, they really didn't get a, a leadership, uh, position until, you know, maybe four, five, six years into their career when they became a platoon commander.

Um, that was kind of the first time that many of them really had an opportunity to step up and lead a, a group of people.

And yet right out of the gate, uh, I went to school for about six or eight months, uh, in Newport, Rhode Island.

If you, you, you go and, and if you're gonna be an infantry officer, um, in the Army or the Marine Corps, you're gonna go to, to infantry officer course, uh, and you're gonna go straight out and, and, and be in, uh, you're commissioned, uh, as a, as a first lieutenant or second lieutenant.

Um, your second lieutenant is, is your, is your first, uh, uh, y- your, your most junior officer.

They're gonna be put in a role as a platoon commander.

Um, and you're in charge of those people, and, and that's, uh, you gotta figure it out.