Jump the Hump Day Navy SEAL Post- Teamwork

HooYah, It's Wednesday!

Time to Jump the Hump with a Navy SEAL Thing.

Today, the Oldest FrogHog on the Web (said only in the nicest way of course) is coming to you from deep in the Swamp. I am training some youngin's, to be Tadpoles or Wannabee FrogHogs.

Our evolution today is ...working together as a Team.

Hey, do I hear some croaking from the back? Whaddya say? Oh, there was some other BIG thing that happened to the Swamp last Tuesday? Like What?

I know, I know, stop croaking tadpoles. I don't care if your guy won or lost the POTUS election.
And I don't want to hear, Jeremiah was a BullFrog anymore.

What I want to hear is a loud HooYah for our Team- Team America. No, not the movie- you leaping tadpoles- Team USA. (Geesh, where are they getting these recruits nowadays? Maybe from the pet shop at the mall?)

Now, quit that croaking and arguing and act like a team.

Listen up, for your first evolution, since there was so much croaking and carrying on against each other, over that POTUS thing, you are going for a little slush hike around the Swamp. And you can still carry-on! This means you will be carrying on your head, your squad's lillypad.

Once you're done with this evolution, I'll meet you in the classroom to learn from the experts - our NAVY SEALS, about teamwork.

(after 2 hours)

Tadpoles- back already?

Ok, Let's head on over the classroom, to hear what the SEALs have to say.

From the Book-Navy SEALs A Complete History from WWII to the Present by Kevin Dockery from interviews by Bud Brutsman.

From the interview with Raymond C. Smith, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)
"The use of the word Teams probably comes from a couple places, one of which is that BUD/S training, nobody goes through there by themselves. Even on swims, you are with a swim buddy. In almost all cases, those who try to go by themselves don't make it through the course. It's not a course for young men who are individualists, and we inculcate this idea of teamwork throughout BUD/S. The students hear the word teamwork probably every day for 25 weeks. Team, team, team. And so it becomes part of their very being. Combined with the fact that our units are named Teams -whether it was Underwater Demolition Teams or SEAL Teams, the word Teams has become synonymous with what we are. They aren't SEAL people, they're SEAL Teams. I think that underpins the very philosophy SEALs go by. Naval Special Warfare is synonymous with the name SEAL Teams."

Got it tadpoles?

Now, tadpoles- lets hear a BIG HooYah for Team USA!