He believes that the BUD/S training pipeline is an effective system that produces high-quality operators, despite occasional individual failures.

“the program is what it is for a reason and it produces really good team guys that's my opinion and that's what I've seen and that's what I know is true”

Navy SEAL training is a challenging, primarily psychological process that tests whether an individual has the requisite commitment and mental fortitude.

“Most guys quit before evolutions or after, not during, surprisingly enough. Most people will quit in the anticipation of what's going to come, not really what comes.”

Navy SEAL training is designed to be excessively brutal because it is the only effective way to test whether a candidate has the mental fortitude to stay when faced with extreme suffering.

“they make it excessively brutal because um the really the only way to weed you out is is if you quit so they just make it as as horrible as possible”