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Elite SEAL Sniper JP Dinnell - An ORIGIN Film

Jun 03, 2021
Now I remember walking into the recruiting office and they were trying to be tough and intimidating and you know, they asked me what I was doing there and I told them to join the Navy to become a Navy SEAL and I remember every single one of them. They started laughing with chocolate when I was a kid. I remember how angry I got when everyone laughed at me. You and there's a big senior boss and he said, you know two things: one, we can't do anything with our caps on. your hand the Navy won't even touch you and two the aspiring Navy SEAL recruiter will be back on Thursday so if you want to come back in two days you can talk to him and when he said the aspiring Navy SEAL recruiter who got angry I got angry too and I remember just trying to be polite, trying to be respectful, but I got angry, you know, I got really angry and I gave them my information.
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Back to work. I remember like I was looking at the Navy recruiting office. Like, wow, how does that work? I'm back, I'm at registration and I'm looking across the street at the Navy recruiting office, and I just decided that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to become a Navy SEAL. My dad worked in construction, so I have to work in construction. My dad, well, they just cut a cast off my hand. I couldn't grab a pen or pencil to sign papers at the recruiting office, so my dad grabbed my old kickboxing bandages when we were done.
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I raised my hands hard, grabbed a hammer and he took some athletic medical tape and we wrapped it around my hand to where I was holding it and that's how I would have to work from my old bad 8 10 12 hours a day and it sucked and it was painful , but he was pushing me because he knew that pain was what I was going to feel, you know, no, I don't know how I ever thought about my old man for what he did. He put everything into me that summer because he knew he had to be at a different level.
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He was only 18 years old. Most little kids don't make it through SEAL training and that's a good thing, we don't want young, immature kids running around. the world with top secret clearances and carrying millions of dollars worth of equipment and, more importantly, other people's lives, so the training is designed to eliminate the mentally weak, eliminate the immature and Eliminate the guys who aren't capable. step up and lead and my dad knew that he knew that of my uncles who had been in the military he did his research and that's why my dad pushed me, he pushed me to my physical and mental limits every day that summer Yes, guys. like Mexico, do you need gloves?
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Did you say it was freezing? We should get story times, a medium, a good story for us, yeah, I've never been good at just making up a random story like it comes out as a conversation, no, no. I know, I know, but what I was saying is that we have a handful of them, the mentality that Jocko brought to our task was completely different than any of the other task unit commanders and you could tell that the attitude of our task he was a reflection of Jocko and therefore in the thug task he had Charlie platoon and Delta platoon and Lafe babban was the OIC who is the officer in charge of Charlie Patton and Chris Kyle was the point man and the

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leader and Charlie Patton and then I was in Delta Platoon.
I was the opposite of Chris, I was the point man and the lead

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in Delta platoon and the Delta platoon commander was Seth Stubb and South was like my big brother, we went through SQT together, we graduated SQT which is our SEAL qualification, is advanced training. After the outbreaks is where you really learn to be a

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. If I aim this way and I'm going to engage a target and the wind is coming from the right, I'm actually going to keep my aiming point to the right, depending on how far away that shot is, how fast the wind is coming in, what As hard as the wind is coming in, you may only slightly hold the edge, sometimes you're actually holding away from the target as if you were here, your center aim point is actually completely off the target. target and then you will get that hit in the center, we all have instincts of how to do things that were meant to be and I really believe that God is a design for me at that time in my life was to be in the SEAL Team and to be an efficient sniper no 11 I was standing right next to my racket on the training ground.
I was on my sixth day at boot camp and I remember the doors to our barracks burst open and I remember one of the recruit training commanders arriving. In it he was a high ranking boss and he said that our nation has been attacked terrorists flew planes into the base of the Twin Towers is locked down we are going to war I was only 18 years old I remember being so angry that I wanted to go abroad like the most As quickly as possible and I knew I had made the right decision, there was no doubt I would pass the training.
I couldn't train fast enough and every day I woke up it was just that love for my country. I love this country, there is no country bigger than the country we live in and I have always known that we are not a perfect country either, but our country came together, we came together, we grew stronger together as a group when that happened and I remember all the differences , just the diversity in the military in general and especially in the barracks and I remember everyone looking at each other like they were in this together. I'll never forget that feeling, I'll probably do it from right here, yeah. where we can go down to that platform, but here it's probably going to be yeah, that'll be the best, okay, great, my first deployment we did our first job, well, I review it in SEAL Teams.
I'm a new guy, we do our job and We found that instead of going overseas to do direct action, capture and kill missions like the SEAL teams have been doing have been absolutely crushing. We were going to take care of the personal safety details, which is babysitting for adults. We found out we were going. keeping the top dignitaries in Iraq safe during the election period and as you can imagine we're not too keen on that 760 to 900 between those two, this one on the right is obviously closer, it's around six. Yeah, yeah, okay, how does the dollar say which one is further in the middle?
Yes, that would be over a thousand yards away. Yeah, so you're saying it's more than eleven hundred dollars. The hunter bought one hundred dollars and I just met one hundred dollars. Yes, children. Don't waste a hundred dollars, hey, we're on this stakeout looking out over the lake and from the place on the plateau where we parked the vehicles and the shooter threw that piece of steel across the lake, how far away is it? That's more than us, so it's not more than a thousand no, oh, okay, thank you, I appreciate it, sir, see you there. Wow, but you know it was our job and you do your job and that was our mission and it wasn't. a mission that we were happy about, but it was a mission that had to be done, so we did it and we did a very good job and we came home and I remember hearing about things starting to get bad abroad, in the west, we started to I heard the term insurgency being dropped and that's when we met Jocko, that's when Jocko came in as our commander, we did our job and we found out that we were heading to Ramadi and I remember finding out that we were heading. to hurmati we were excited, we knew it was a bad area and that's what I love about SEAL teams is you want to go to the worst place you want to deploy in those bad areas and Ramadi was a legit deployment.
I was our main sniper I was our point man when I walked to the point. It was marked 46, which was a belt-fed five-five-six machine gun. I had two hundred rounds in the gun and most of the time I could carry another 600 to 800 rounds in my body. with another 200 on my back, I mean, between one thousand and twelve hundred bullets at a time, it was legit. Ramadi was the deployment we wanted, what the SEALs want, it was that sustained urban combat because it was the worst area in the world at that time. At a time when we have almost no wind, it's unbelievable, so I'll probably miss a shot because it's an ideal situation behind you.
Ready, time, yes. Ramadi was the best and worst time of my life. You guys want to shoot 500, yeah, okay, yeah. Let me do a few rounds just being with the guys and not just our platoon, not just our task unit, but the Soldiers and Marines that we work with, those are some of the best memories I've ever had, plus my children were born, the best memories, yes. and that's the other thing, too, is that sometimes we say all said now there's a wind that's picked up, so now I'm holding high and off, so I'm lining up those marks where I want that point. of impact so that the sights are no longer on the target, they're to the left and up or something, so you make those kinds of adjustments and you take shots and then it's crazy, you know, because we believed in the mission and we knew the mission , we understood the mission and that's why we took that deployment as seriously as we did.
What I'm really going to do is clean and secure this gun real quick because I want you to dry fire. aim and get used to that, so you can feel and make sure that when you drew the gun, I'm sorry, when you pulled the trigger, it was smooth and you weren't trying to rush the shot, okay? once you've done that. once or twice okay, stay in that position, then I'll load the gun, we'll warm it up and then you fire, okay, that's it, I mean just sitting on a roof when rockets are fired at you. your building and there are bullets exploding over your head and there are balls exploding on the ceiling and your friends sitting next to you laughing pulling out a can of sauce packing a sauce that goes well I can't do anything else right now you just watch and you just you're laughing with your friends there you go they just keep the yes just keep your hand like this next to the gun if you want now put your right index finger on the trigger you're going to control your breathing I want you to do it Inhale and as you exhale the sight should be focused on that goal, that's fine, that's fine, you will do exactly what you just did.
Okay, it's on fire, it's ready to go, so go ahead and tap the trigger with your finger. right, you have your point of contact, now you control your breathing, you're like barks, almost crazy, you felt the amount of stress you imposed on yourself, although oh, I mean, it's a controlled environment, right, perfectly controlled environment, everything is set up, boom. I'm like, okay, go ahead and wash your body posture change as soon as I was behind you. I'm like, right on you, keep going and you say you're ready to move on, it was like I was saying why I'm nervous. oh yeah, but you're doing it right, you're right, well have you ever done this before?
It's not exactly like that, it's something new, right, and you know, it's the fact that we're

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ing it or we're hitting it, it's an environment that you're not used to and that's good, hey man, that's awesome, you know? And then there are the times when you hear on the radio that a guy was injured or a guy was killed and the soldiers and Marines that we were working with those guys were injured. a lot and unfortunately I had a big handful of those guys that died on that deployment as well. Now we will go to memorial services regularly for our brothers.
If I was here veg DUP you would have no idea where I was that's the Scary thing about what snipers can do you know so look outside and we're sitting here someone could legitimately shoot us from anywhere in 360 degrees and we have no idea where it came from and then one of the times we were tasked with doing a mission where we will head north of the area we are in and it was a rural area that looked like the old Vietnam videos, You know, there are the fields, there are the trees on the outskirts of these fields. the river and we head there with our platoon and I with another guy, we will have to put on our ghillie suits, move vegetables to a place where we are completely separated from the group and the ideal place we found was completely isolated.
It wasn't the ideal location for us as far as security, but that's where we needed to set up, so we went in there in the middle of the night and went completely vegetarian, Doug, but instead and there were times when We had guys three to five meters away from us and we are completely DUP vegetarians and they have no idea we were there because that was a thing in sniper school, they also test you on your correct shots so you tell them you're ready to take the photo and then the instructor would come within a certain radius of where you are, like they would have the instructors walk across the field and come up to us, not right above us, but get closer to us and us.
They would have to shoot and they would know where I mean, so you are looking at, let's say, I mean, for example, the steel that we are going to shoot at, so if you knew that there was a sniper within a certain area, you would have to shoot and you're looking at that area to try to see where that shot came from,did that cop ever get you caught, no, not once and we were set up all night all day and there are moments like you had To pee, you're literally rolling slightly to the side, getting a little bit of the dirt that you're leaving behind , putting the dirt back on it and laying down in that same spot and it took a lot of discipline and it took a lot of heat, that's the most important thing is when you're in this thick ghillie suit, your vegetable DUP and it's one hundred and twenty degrees while you're outside in middle of the summer in Iraq and I just remember sweat dripping completely off our faces and we're trying not to move, we're trying not to talk and we're in that position and I remember hearing this, don't do it from a distance and you know, those are mortars , it is one of the most terrifying noises heard in combat in my opinion because you have no idea where they are going to hit and we didn't think they could come to our location but we also knew that the enemy we were fighting was intelligent. and at some point they would use mortars in known locations in case American troops were setting up in those locations and we were hit by those mortars, but again, the absolute grace of God that this other guy and I got out of this without any major injuries, Everything around us was simply destroyed by the explosion and our radios went out.
I just remember that I felt like I was drowning or knocked out because it was loud, everything was like we were very blurry and just like the noise coming in and me coming in. the sky we look at each other we make sure we're okay we scan the area to make sure there are no enemy fighters directly above us we're trying to figure out what we're going to do because we had contingency plans that if we came into contact our guys were going to reach a location, they set up an ambush, they launched suppressive covering fire so we could retreat, but we couldn't communicate by radio, our radios had been damaged by the explosion, so we waited a good amount of time.
The time we returned to their location and we were sick, I remember I was throwing up, the other guy was throwing up too. We had to wait until nightfall to be able to patrol back, we are going to try to get the boats to come. upriver to get us out of there, but because of the enemy movement in the area we didn't want to bring those guys into that area and it would have drawn a lot of attention, so we had a patrol back to the base and everything. At that time we were trying to patrol super dizzy, vomiting, urinating a little bit of blood when we got back, we had blood in our stool, it was close, we were very lucky, but that was our deployment every day and such an unpleasant situation like That was a great memory because I remember lying in the side of my brother in the worst possible environment and we were just laughing at each other, obviously very quietly, very quietly, but it sucked so much that it was unbelievable because we knew we were doing what we were doing. people dreamed of doing and that was something I dreamed of since I was a little kid.
I wanted to be veg dup as a sniper and we got those guys, we got the mortar team that we called on the spot, we called everything and our base. I didn't get any more shit for a while, so it was 100% worth it. Punisher, simple, things were out, what do you think about holding that helmet? I only think about robotics. I think I heard our first trip was a chore. the unit is in the desert for an owner to train it when Jacko told me to go do that at my house I mean he's like a 550 cable let me put my helmet on and then you would hook up your night vision to that so if the baroque mountain you're not losing your night vision and then freedom is not free and the Brotherhood I wrote it in marker on the back and now I have a different helmet with the Jaco knife again and I can do what I do with the front of the room, so it's unique to see everything working again.
Have you made sense of that? No, yes, no, no, there is no need to shout. Oh, everyone can see me getting excited. This means everything. Some of my best friends, roommates, gave everything for this. flag because I mean my ability to sit here and talk to you today, you know, for our freedoms. I remember escorting Mikey's body home, so Mikey Mansoor was murdered on September 29, 2006. We were packed and ready to go home, they left in one. In the last mission there is a sniper surveillance, they kill a bunch of enemy insurgents throughout the day and they throw a grenade on the roof and it hits Mike in the chest and it bounces in front of them and instead of trying to turn around or jump in a different direction.
Mikey jumped on top of that grenade and absorbed most of that explosion for the other two guys that were on the roof next to him, right next to him, and Mikey Mikey could have done something else, he could have taken the easy way out. , but instead he put his brothers first, which all the guys in our task unit did, yeah, they always put the mission first and Mikey fought to live for about 30 minutes. You know, it was the mission like a1 that I wasn't on during our romani deployment and my finger got stuck. They cut me to the bone and took me out.
We went to the AIDS Center, which was a medical center we had, and they thought I was going to lose my finger, so I got the council to remove me from there. They flew me in and had emergency surgery. We were finishing the deployment anyway, so we didn't think anything of it. I returned to the main base and I remember going for a run. I was running and one of the guys pulls up next to me in a truck. He said hey, something happened, it doesn't look too good, you know, Mikey and a couple of other guys are hurt, you have to come back right now, we were probably going to have to go give blood and I just remember everything stopped, who is it, It was a feeling that the guy had never felt before and then I come back and we're waiting to hear what's going on, we're in the conversation and Jaco and the rest of our leadership are trying to figure out what's going on and then I remember they told me they told us that Mikey had passed away and me and a couple of other guys asked the organ to come back to San Diego and I remember sitting next to his casket for parts of the flight and the flag that covers that casket is a beautiful and horrible sight, I just remember thinking about all the stories Mikey and I had shared.
I remember thinking about his family. I felt guilty. I felt angry. I felt simply. I felt insecure. There are many doubts. I was doubting my actions. I was doubting my leadership. sections why did they come out once again? Well, you know, that's what we do, we finish the mission, we do the job and Mike understood the mission, he knew what he had to do, those guys knew it and they knew the risk. I know, Mikey. He died doing what he loved here He's a devout Catholic He absolutely loved the SEAL teams You love the Brotherhood He loved our task unit and he believed in our mission and he believed in what we were doing, you know, unfortunately, Mike, he's not the only one. brother we have.
We lost in the SEAL teams and we also lost Mark Lee in that deployment. Ryan's job was hurt. Some other boys were injured. I've lost roommates and other best friends. Yes, this flag means everything to me. A little over 7,000, the boy who grew up. with the speech impediment and said he would never speak in front of groups in flow several times because I felt like I had made four disparate attempts this morning, yeah buddy, I felt it all the time, from one who is out of it, it's better I crashed before the keynote, something requires more, yes, the future is amazing and thanks to what I can do with Echelon Front, I am a leadership speaker and instructor for Echelon Front or director of our field training exercises, which are our practical exercises.
Scenario-based training, which I love, the value it brings to our clients, is like nothing else and it's crazy to think about what I'll be doing in a couple of days. I'll talk to the company the first half of the day which will be another 700 of their key leaders, we'll do a half day workshop and then after lunch during a combat leadership speech in front of 7,000 people, 230 will start and then they'll say I'm up at 3 so 3 to 4 is when I go, I mean what are you doing after all? That leaves me speechless. I grew up with a speech impediment.
I grew up having to do speech therapy. I never wanted to speak in front of the people I used to. Telling myself and my family I knew that I never want to have to speak in front of people used to terrify me and I realized that was just a false fear I had in my mind and was the driving force for many. from the same combat operation that Shock Relief wrote about in the book Extreme Ownership as a member of the echelon front Gentry brings a fascinating perspective to winning the bully testing mentality and culture. His extraordinary combat experiences provide high-impact lessons to teach others how to build. our own high-performance winning teams and dominate in their battle Team Phills O'Reilly, please join me in a round of applause to thank JP for his service to our country and for being our keynote speaker this afternoon, the impact we can trigger. with the message of extreme ownership for companies and individuals is absolutely amazing.
You know, my mission has changed because life demands it and that was the hardest thing for me to understand when I left the SEAL Teams is that I was not in the SEAL Teams as much as I loved that job and that was the best job in the world, Without a doubt, being in the SEAL Teams was no longer a chapter in my life and my life is a book and my life is going to. I had many chapters and that was a great chapter, but I had to move on, I had to do it, I had to adapt To this new mission, just like in combat, our mission changed daily and we had to make those changes.
There are times when we would be in the middle of a mission and we had to change the mission because things had changed and we didn't plan that mission properly. You have to be able to realize when your mission changes and now I feel like my new mission is just as important. It is up to me to be the best leader I can be for my family, my friends, my wife and my children. I changed the way I look at things in life instead of saying I have to do something, I tell myself I can do it and that's it.
In mine I had going through outbreaks every day. I can do this. I can do a four mile run. I can go swimming in the ocean. I get to work. I can do this because I know there are thousands. from men all over the world who would love to have the opportunity that I have, there are worse days or someone's dreams, the things we complain about, someone would love to have those problems, so yes, I can do a lot of things wonderful. to train jiu-jitsu they crush me every time I go to my gym and train to the max.
I mean, this gym is unreal, it's just the camaraderie in that gym, the Brotherhood in that gym is what I was missing when I came out. I feel like it's never going to replace what I felt on the SEAL teams, but it's very close to being on sniper duty and seeing an enemy fighter trying to attack other soldiers and marines or your own guys in the streets and having the ability to taking that photo and eliminating that threat is extremely rewarding. The ability to walk up to a human being and see the whites of their eyes when they have no idea you're looking at them is unlike anything else.
I have to stay focused. I have to be committed. I have to be disciplined in everything I do, otherwise I will fail and failure is not an option. We couldn't fault the SEAL teams. I can't fail my family. I can not fail. My friends and I cannot fail my brothers who gave everything who sacrificed everything so that we can do what we do I will not fail them I will not fail them

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