The Toughest Man Alive
Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins is the only member of the U.S. military to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force Combat Control Training.
He will be the special guest of Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn at tonight’s State of the Union address delivered by the POTUS.
In an article posted by lawofficer.com, it states:
He decided to be a patriot because his country had given him the “great opportunity to become someone,” after battling low self-esteem and demons stemming from his childhood.
“So, I had to first work on myself and…stop blaming everybody for my issues,” he told Doocy.
“Honestly, Jenny Craig wasn’t around for me, so basically I just ate very little and worked out like a madman. And, during that process is where I found myself,” he explained.
“In our nation, people have the opportunity to dream big dreams and then to find a way to make those dreams come true and that’s exactly what David has done,” said Blackburn.
“He found the path that worked for him and that’s what the American dream is all about,” she concluded.
Category: Feel Good Stories, Ranger
Given what website this is, I expected the article to be about President Trump. /s
That would have been entitled,
“Toughest President EVAH!”
I think Teddy Roosevelt would have something to say about that. 😉
“Given what website this is”
You mean damn near always right don’t you ????
LC, tell you what. You don’t make fun of my winged Fairbairn–Sykes dagger piercing a flaming skull tattoo, and I won’t tease you about your man-bun. Deal?
Don’t actually have a tat, but a man bun? Really?
*grin*
These days I cut the man-bun often – to donate the hair to transgender lions in Africa. I’m crossing gender, cultural and species lines with that, so I’m pretty woke, but my life coach informs me that my spiritual aura says I should still deign to speak with you lot, so here we are. 😉
Who is this us you speak of?
Boom!
Shack!
And, now that everyone can have their brief outrage,.. congratulations to David for his incredible work – not just in serving the country, but also raising money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Apparently more than $2M:
https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2018/10/inspiration-has-the-ability-to-change-lives
SOWF: https://specialops.org/
What outrage? I thought it was funny.
You remind me of someone, usually a juvenile, trying to make some fancy smarty youtube comment hoping it will go viral. But you’re just not that special.
It is good to see someone on these pages that actually completed all of these schools, as opposed to an exposed phony that claimed they graduated from them.
“…stop blaming everybody for my issues.” Now that’s the kind of attitude everybody needs to have.
BZ David Goggins…YOU ARE THE MAN!
David Goggins ROCKS!
https://davidgoggins.com/about
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“He once held the Guinness World Record for pull-ups completing 4,030 in 17 hours”.
You can read his story here:
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/301115/toughest-man-alive-interview-with-retired-navy-seal-david-goggins
Hopefully, more publicity will be given to him so that he can be an inspiration to all, so much that others will want to emulate him.
From his Wikipedia;
“In the late 1990s, after spending four years in the Air Force, Goggins, who weighed almost 300 pounds, was told that he was too heavy to make it through SEAL training. In less than three months, he returned weighing 190 pounds.”
What a story. Of course, it doesn’t help the image of the Air Force… It’s implied he had a crippling addicting to Hentai porn and Mountain Dew.
You can see his 300 pound picture here:
https://www.nypost.com/2019/01/07/how-this-schlub-transformed-into-a-navy-seal-and-nearly-died-trying/
You can see his Air Force picture and another picture of him when he weighed 300 pounds here:
https://davidgoggins.com/about/
That guy really proves what they say about SEAL (and all spec ops training really) is that while it’s very physical, it’s mostly mental. This is a guy that doesn’t know how to say quit.
Book cover photo doesn’t even look like the same dude.
My neighbor kid used to weigh in at around 300# and wanted to join the Navy.
He’s down to 170#’s and looks great.
Amazing what a little motivation can do for a human being.
He’ll make a great Sailor !!!
Hey the Navy is the fattest – read it in the Air Force Times. 🙂
A minor point of clarification: Goggins voluntarily withdrew from USAF Combat Controller Training after being diagnosed with Sickle Cell Trait. He did complete AF Tactical Air Controller Training and served as a TAC-P.
On his website Goggins’ writes he “is the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training (including two Hell Weeks), the U.S. Army Ranger School (where he graduated as Enlisted Honor Man) and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.”
As a longtime runner (less than Ultra distances) I’m amazed by his feats of endurance. Checkout his interview on the Joe Rogan Experience on youtube where Goggins’ go into sometimes horrific detail of his early childhood traumas.
As I am watch the SOTU Address right now, I can’t help but think that Nanny Lugosi looks like her face is melting once more while President Trump speaks!
She may be suffering some discomfort with Shitfy and Chuckies heads up her azz. DeTrumpsta hammering home the truth may be causing some of that too.
Melania shore be am looking fine as all outdoors.
“As I watch…” I need to proofread before hitting the “POST COMMENT” button, President Trump is STEAMROLLERING the D-rats!
Why yes, yes he is.
Nanny’s body language – just so uncomfortably awkward, man.
President Trump not only hit one Home Run after the other, he also played the D-rats like a cheap fiddle at an all night Barn Dance!!! Nanny Lugosi not only has less class than a public school on Sunday, she also has the poker face of a brain damaged Rhesus Monkey on LSD. That brain-damaged plastic-faced twunt showed her true colors by refusing to shake hands with President Trump as well as tearing up her copy of his speech. That with the attempted hissy fit by D-rats during the SOTU address will IMHO further insure a GOP Landslide in November, MAGA2020!!!
That tearing up of the speech was just one more low class act in a continuing series of them. And these folks seriously consider themselves to be our betters? Really?
They just don’t understand the concept that when you act like thugs and/or spoiled children you shouldn’t be surprised when folks treat you like thugs and/or spoiled children. They sure have practiced plenty of tantrums and other childish behavior lately.
Yes indeed, the part where the D-rat females dressed in white had a mass hissy fit and started chanting didn’t do them any favors either, but you do not interrupt your adversaries when they are cutting their own throats!
She offered her hand at the beginning and he either didn’t see it or flat out refused it. Personally, I think he did the latter.
And, yes, that bitch needs to go. She IS THE primary reason the dems are like they are.
Now that the impeachment looks like it will turn into dust, I wonder if Nancy’s fellow d-rats will fire her from the speaker’s job?
They need new management- not that it will help.
Thats My President! KAGA
Had the medal of freedom ever been awarded during an state of the union address?
That award was genuinely awesome and well deserved. Say what you will about Rush and love him or hate him but the fact remains that he alone has been a thorn in the side of liberalism for decades. I say again, Well Deserved.