"I just can't consider myself a lanky that I was able to, and you know, the test is really not that difficult to pass," he says. "My struggle was with the swim, which I couldn't swim for a while ... but I got it." He's been working at freaking soft since his early 20s when he first started training as an EOD officer in Iraq. The SEAL Team 6 team has gone through several changes of leadership over the past few years; they're now based in San Diego.