What Growing Up Around Navy SEALs Is Really Like

The physicality when these guys would come over. I mean, I can remember being a tiny, tiny child. They all looked like superheroes.

So what was that like, you know, being a young kid? You know, father's a Navy SEAL high achiever, coming from a long line of military families and that sort of growing up around this base? Because I don't think a lot of people really are in tune with what that kind of youth is like.

When people think growing up in military, they think, major dad, right? Flat top haircut, he comes in blouse uniform. You know, special operations is very unconventional, so they never felt like they were in the military. You'd see the uniforms and you'd see all the stuff, but it felt like more like a professional sports team than anything else. But it was the culture, the way they were, though, living out of 15 passenger vans, in and out of hotels, always gone on the road, dropping off dirty laundry. But just, you know, the humor, the dark humor, just the physicality when these guys would come over. I mean, I can remember being a tiny, tiny child and watching the guys pour into our house and just. They all looked like superheroes. I mean, they were freaks, and I always wanted to be one.