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Navy SEALs are some of the most highly trained fighting men in the entire world, with combat skills that haunt the dreams of terrorists everywhere.
One journalist, Jason Howerton, recently decided to challenge one of these elite fighters to a grappling match.
Howerton, an editor for TheBlaze, challenged Jocko Willink, a 230-pound legendary Navy SEAL commander who also happened to be a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In other words, this match wasn’t going to last very long.
“When I saw Jocko Willink enter the building, I felt a sense of dread like I’ve never experienced before,” Howerton wrote about the match.
The 180-pound journalist explained that his motivation behind the seemingly ridiculous challenge was two-fold.
“Firstly, I wanted to honor our service members and show in vivid detail just how elite they really are,” he wrote, explaining how they train tirelessly for combat throughout their careers.
For the most part, these elite service members carry that same grit and determination into their post-military lives. For example, Willink had been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for more than 20 years.
“Though every service member I’ve ever met has been too humble to say it, they are just on a different level than the rest of us,” Howerton explained.
Second, the journalist said he wanted to entertain the people who follow his writing at TheBlaze and introduce as many of them as possible to Willink, who hosts the highly popular and motivational “Jocko Podcast.”
The outcome of the grappling match was exactly what you likely expected.
“Predictably, Willink manhandled me as if I were a small child,” Howerton wrote.
In fact, the journalist said that he went “several rounds” with the highly-trained Navy SEAL and never gave up — “until he choked me unconscious, that is.”
Willink later explained to Howerton that his size and strength actually has little to do with his effectiveness in combat.
“Honestly, it’s just because I’ve been training for a long time,” he said. “It’s something that anybody could get. It’s not because I’m special, it’s just because I’ve trained for a long time doing this. And if the roles were reversed, and he’d been training longer than me, he would be doing that right there to me.”
Watch the Navy SEAL easily choke out this journalist below: https://youtu.be/JbnnwwSWO3M
We should be proud to have these elite fighters on our side, training and protecting us every day from enemy threats so that we can live comfortably and free.
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