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

0:00You've done a lot of hard things in your life.

0:03A couple.

0:04Why was getting out of the military the hardest thing that you've had to do?

0:11No one ever prepared you for it.

0:14When you get in the teams, any military, but especially special operations, it becomes your identity.

0:20It becomes the only thing you do, and it becomes a justification for everything you don't do.

0:24Why don't you do this?

0:25Because it'll affect the end state.

0:27When you transition away from it, you never thought it was going to be hard.

0:30You thought you were going to transition.

0:32You were going to find that same love and passion and energy you had for being in the military.

0:36And then when you don't find it, it's a huge fall from grace.

0:40But I mean, you hear these fairy tales of this billionaire is going to 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.

0:51Any place you want to go, they'll pick you up because of your background, because of your resume and all these different things.

0:55And when you get out, you quickly realize that's all a lie.

0:59No one's going to pay you to do a compound assault.