If you can’t do the little things right, awusoze wenze izinto ezinkulu kwesokudla.
Futhi, uma by chance une usuku dabukisa, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
#1. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, luqale ngokwenza umbhede wakho.
Ngesikhathi ukuqeqeshwa YAMANZI abaphukile abafundi phansi esikebheni nabasebenza. Each crew is seven students—three on each side of a small rubber boat and one coxswain to help guide the dingy.
Nsuku zonke isikebhe sakho crew lwakha up on the beach futhi bayalwa ukuba uthole ngokusebenzisa zone Surf futhi ihambe ngezinyawo amakhilomitha amaningana ehla nogu lwase.
Ebusika, emadlambini off San Diego ungathola kube 8 ukuze 10 ukuphakama futhi kunzima ngokudlulele ukuba ihambe badlule emadlambini ezingena ngaphandle uma wonke umuntu ecentacenta.
Njalo gwedla kumele ehambisanayo ngomvimbo ukubala coxswain. Wonke umuntu kumele sizame alinganayo noma isikebhe bayophendukela ngokumelene wave futhi ube unceremoniously unyakaziswa emuva ogwini.
Ngoba isikebhe ukuze alenze ezindaweni zabo, wonke umuntu kumele ihambe.
You can’t change the world alone—you will need some help— and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, ozakwabo, enhle abangabazi kanye coxswain esinamandla khaphi them.
#2. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, thola othile ukukusiza ihambe.
Eminyakeni kwamasonto ambalwa nzima ukuqeqesha ekilasini lami YAMANZI eyaqala nge 150 amadoda kwaba phansi nje 35. Kwakukhona eziyisithupha isikebhe nabasebenza zabantu ayisikhombisa ngalinye.
Ngangineminyaka emkhunjini guys abade, but the best boat crew we had was made up of the the little guys—the munchkin crew we called them—no one was over about 5-foot five.
I crew munchkin sikebhe kwakudingeka omunye American Indian, one African American, one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, futhi izingane ezimbili ezinzima kusukela maphakathi nawo-west.
They out bagwedla, out-Ran, nasesizweni bangene zonke ezinye nabasebenza isikebhe.
La madoda enkulu kwamanye amaqembu isikebhe kuyohlale behlekisa abahle we emaphikweni kancane ezincane munchkins wagqoka izinyawo zabo-Ncane ngaphambi zonke sibhukuda.
Kodwa ngandlela-thile lezi guys kancane, kuzo zonke izingxenye weSizwe kanye nezwe, always had the last laugh— swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.
ukuqeqeshwa YAMANZI salingana. Akukho okwakubaluleke kodwa intando yakho ukuze uphumelele. Hhayi umbala wakho, hhayi ngobuzwe bakho, hhayi imfundo yakho futhi hhayi isimo sakho social.
#3. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, ukukala umuntu ngobukhulu inhliziyo yabo, hhayi ubukhulu emaphikweni abo.
Izikhathi eziningana evikini, abafundisayo ababezosinika iyahambelana ekilasini bese ukwenza wokuhlola umfaniswano. Yingaleso ithatha ngokungashwampuluzi.
hat Yakho kwadingeka ngokuphelele starched, umfaniswano wakho ogqoka ezikanokusho sicindezelwe nebhande yakho luqhephuke acwebezelayo futhi engenakuqonda iyiphi smudges.
Kodwa kwakubonakala ukuthi kungakhathaliseki ukuthi ungakanani umzamo owenzayo starching hat yakho, or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle—- it just wasn’t good enough.
The instructors would find “something” wrong.
Ngoba bahlulwe wokuhlola umfaniswano, umfundi kwadingeka agijime, owembethe ngokugcwele surfzone bese, ezimanzi kusukela ekhanda kuye ozwaneni, Roll azungeze ogwini kuze kube yilapho yonke ingxenye yomzimba wakho laligcwele isihlabathi.
The effect was known as a “sugar cookie.” You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day—cold, elina sandy.
There were many a student who just couldn’t accept the fact that all their effort was in vain. That no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right—it was unappreciated.
Those students didn’t make it through training.
Those students didn’t understand the purpose of the drill. Kade Akusoze ziphumelele. You azikaze uzoba umfaniswano ophelele.
Ngezinye izikhathi kungakhathaliseki ukuthi ulungiselele noma kahle kangakanani ukwenza wena namanje bagcina ikhukhi ushukela.
It’s just the way life is sometimes.
#4. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe ukuthanda kokuba ikhukhi ushukela sokuqhubekela phambili.
Every day during training you were challenged with multiple physical events—long runs, abhukude abuyele eside, siyini isithiyo izifundo, hours of calisthenics—something designed to test your mettle.
Every event had standards—times you had to meet. If you failed to meet those standards your name was posted on a list and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to—a “circus.”
A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics—designed to wear you down, ukuphula ubuqotho bakho, ukuphoqelela ukuba uyeke.
Akekho owayefuna esekisini.
A circus meant that for that day you didn’t measure up. A circus meant more fatigue—and more fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult—and more circuses were likely.
Kodwa esikhathini esithile phakathi nokuqeqeshwa YAMANZI, everyone—everyone—made the circus list.
Kodwa into ezithakazelisayo kwenzeka kwababe njalo ohlwini. Over time those students-—who did two hours of extra calisthenics—got stronger and stronger.
Ubuhlungu emasekisini eyakhelwe amandla eyakhiwe kwangaphakathi nokuqina ngokomzimba.
Ukuphila ugcwele emasekisini.
You uyohluleka. Uyothola luphumelele ngokuvamile. Kuyoba buhlungu. Kuyoba ekudumaza. Ngezinye izikhathi tando vivinyo you ukuba core wakho kakhulu.
#5. Kodwa uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, don’t be afraid of the circuses.
Okungenani kabili ngeliviki, abaqeqeshwayo kwakudingeka ukugijima ibanga siyini isithiyo. Inkambo siyini isithiyo oluqukethwe 25 izithiyo kuhlanganise a 10-foot oluphakemeyo, 30-foot cargo net, futhi ngocingo oluhlabayo ukukhasa sibala ezimbalwa.
Kodwa yinselele kakhulu kwaba slide for life. It kwadingeka ezingeni ezintathu 30 foot umbhoshongo ngakolunye uhlangothi ezingeni umbhoshongo eyodwa kwenye. Phakathi kwaba 200-foot indophi eside.
Kwakudingeka ukukhuphuka amathathu umbhoshongo tiered futhi once phezulu, wena wahlwitha indophi, wavuleka ngaphansi intambo futhi wadonsa wena isandla phezu ngesandla uze efika ekupheleni.
Ukulandisa ngenkambo siyini isithiyo bebemi iminyaka lapho engifunda naye ekilasini waqala ukuqeqesha e 1977.
Ukulandisa kwakubonakala sahlulwa, kwaze kwaba usuku, a student decided to go down the slide for life—head first.
Esikhundleni wahosha isidumbu sakhe ngaphansi intambo kanye inching indlela yakhe phansi, yena ngesibindi aboshelwe TOP intambo wamgwaza ngokwakhe phambili.
It was a dangerous move—seemingly foolish, futhi igcwele ingozi. Ukwehluleka kungasho ukulimala nokubhapathizwa sesehlela ukuqeqeshwa.
Without hesitation—the student slid down the rope—perilously fast, esikhundleni imizuzu embalwa, it kuphela wamthabatha uhhafu ngaleso sikhathi futhi ekupheleni inkambo eselaphulile irekhodi yena.
#6. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe ngezinye izikhathi kufanele shelela phansi ikhanda Inkinga yokuqala.
Ngesikhathi sesigaba izwe empini ukuqeqeshwa, abafundi basuke zafinyelela out San Clemente Island elisemandleni ngasogwini San Diego.
Amanzi off San Clemente ayizidleke for oshaka great white. Ukuze kudlule ukuqeqeshwa YAMANZI kukhona uchungechunge lwezinkulumo abhukude abuyele eside ukuthi kumele agcwaliswe. One—is the night swim.
Ngaphambi kokuba ama-ukubhukuda wabafundisi zichazele ngenjabulo abaqeqeshwayo on zonke izinhlobo oshaka abahlala asogwini San Clemente.
They ukukuqinisekisa, Nokho, that no student has ever been eaten by a shark—at least not recently.
Kodwa, you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position—stand your ground. Musa ukubhukuda away. Ningenzi afraid.
Futhi uma ushaka, silambele umthamo phakathi kwamabili, darts towards you—then summons up all your strength and punch him in the snout and he will turn and swim away.
Kunezinto eziningi oshaka emhlabeni. Uma unethemba lokuthola ukuqedela ukubhukuda kuyomelwe ukuba abhekane nabo.
#7. Ngakho, uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, don’t back down from the sharks.
Njengoba Navy Seals omunye imisebenzi yethu siwukuba aziphathe ukuhlaselwa underwater beyolwa nesitha lokuthumela. We wayekwenza lokhu su elikhulu ngesikhathi ukuqeqeshwa okuyisisekelo.
The ship attack mission is where a pair of SEAL divers is dropped off outside an enemy harbor and then swims well over two miles—underwater—using nothing but a depth gauge and a compass to get to their target.
Phakathi naso sonke ukubhukuda, ngisho kahle ngaphansi kwamanzi kukhona abanye ukukhanya etholakala. Kuyaduduza ukwazi ukuthi kukhona amanzi evulekile kunawe.
Kodwa njengoba uya umkhumbi, okuyinto bahlanganiswe pier, ukukhanya uqala fade. The steel structure of the ship blocks the moonlight—it blocks the surrounding street lamps—it blocks all ambient light.
Ukuze uphumelele emsebentini wakho, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel—the center line and the deepest part of the ship.
Lena umgomo wakho. But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship—where you cannot see your hand in front of your face, where the noise from the ship’s machinery is deafening and where it is easy to get disoriented and fail.
Njalo YAMANZI uyazi ukuthi ngaphansi keel, at the darkest moment of the mission—is the time when you must be calm, composed—when all your tactical skills, amandla akho ngokomzimba nangawo onke amandla akho kwangaphakathi kufanele alethwe athwale.
#8. Uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, Kufanele ube yakho okungcono kakhulu okwamanje emnyama.
The ninth week of training is referred to as “Hell Week.” It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment and—one special day at the Mud Flats—the Mud Flats are an area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water runs off and creates the Tijuana slue’s—a swampy patch of terrain where the mud will engulf you.
Kuyinto ngoLwesithathu Hogo Week ukuthi ihambe phansi ukuba amafulethi udaka futhi bachithe elandelayo 15 amahora uzama sisinde umnkantsha amakhaza udaka, umoya umkhulungwane kanye nokucindezela engapheli ukuba niyeke kusukela labayali.
Njengoba ilanga laqala ukuthi ngoLwesithathu kusihlwa, class yami ukuqeqeshwa, having committed some “egregious infraction of the rules” was ordered into the mud.
Le udaka kudliwe umuntu ngamunye kwaba lutho ebonakalayo, kodwa emakhanda ethu. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit—just five men and we could get out of the oppressive cold.
Uma ubheka flat odakeni kwacaca ukuthi abanye abafundi ayesezohlubuka give up. It was still over eight hours till the sun came up—eight more hours of bone chilling cold.
I esephoshophosho amazinyo futhi beqhaqhazela moans of Laba abaqeqeshwayo babehlukaniswe elikhulu kangaka kwakunzima ukuzwa lutho abese, one voice began to echo through the night—one voice raised in song.
Ingoma wathukuthela wagan 'out of tune, kodwa sung ngesasasa elikhulu.
Omunye izwi waba nababili futhi ababili baba amathathu futhi phambi kwabo bonke eside in ikilasi becula.
Sasazi ukuthi uma umuntu oyedwa angavuka ngenhla usizi ke abanye babengase kanye.
The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing—but the singing persisted.
And somehow—the mud seemed a little warmer, umoya a tamer kancane futhi kuqala hhayi kude kangaka.
Uma Ngiye ngafunda lutho ngesikhathi sami kokuhamba emhlabeni, lingamandla wethemba. The power of one person—Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan—Malala—one person can change the world by giving people hope.
#9. Ngakho, uma ufuna ukushintsha izwe, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.
Ekugcineni, ekuqeqesheni YAMANZI kukhona bell. A zethusi bell ukuthi kuthé maphakathi egcekeni for bonke abafundi ukubona.
All you have to do to quit—is ring the bell. Insimbi kanye nawe akusadingeki ukuvuka 5 o’clock. Insimbi kanye nawe akusadingeki ukwenza abhukude abuyele amakhaza okokuqandisa.
Insimbi kanye nawe akusadingeki ukwenza ugijimela, inkambo siyini isithiyo, the PT—and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training.
Vele insimbi.
#10. If you want to change the world don’t ever, owake insimbi.
Esanikwa ikilasi elalithweswa iziqu of 2014, wena izikhathi kude ababethweswa iziqu. Moments kude ukuqala uhambo lwakho ngokusebenzisa ukuphila. Moments away from starting to change the world—for the better.
Ngeke kube lula.
Kodwa, YOU are the class of 2014—the class that can affect the lives of 800 abantu abangaphezu kwesigidi e neminyaka eyikhulu eyalandela.
Qala usuku ngalunye msebenzi oqede.
Thola umuntu ozokusiza kulempilo.
Inhlonipho wonke umuntu.
Yazi ukuthi ukuphila akuhlale kuwubulungisa futhi ukuthi ngeke ahluleke ngokuvamile, kodwa uma uthatha ukuthatha ezinye izingozi, ukwandisa lapho izikhathi ezinzima, kubheke phansi lezi zidlamlilo, phakamisa kwabacindezelwe futhi ungalokothi, ever give up—if you do these things, then next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today and—what started here will indeed have changed the world—for the better.
ngibona kakhulu. Hook ‘em horns.
Buka ividiyo.
Engeza kuzintandokazi
