Elite SEAL Sniper JP Dinnell - An ORIGIN Film

now I remember walking into the recruiting office and they're trying to be hard asses and intimidating and you know they asked me what I was doing in there and I told them join the Navy to become a Navy SEAL and I remember every single one of them started laughing in chocolate when I was a kid I remember how pissed off I got were they're all laughing at me you and there's an older senior chief and he said you know two things one we can't do anything with the caps on your hand the Navy won't even touch you and two the Navy SEAL wannabe recruiter he'll be back on Thursday so if you want to come back in two days you can talk to him and when he said the wannabe Navy SEAL recruiter that pissed me off as well and I remember just trying to be polite trying to be respectful but I got I got pissed you know I got really mad and I give them my information from them I go back to work I remember like staring at the navy recruiting office like wow how does that work I go back I'm on the register and I'm looking across the street at the Navy recruiting office and I just made up my mind that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna become a Navy SEAL my dad did construction so I gotta work constructions my dad well I just had a cast cut off my hand I couldn't grip a pen or pencil to sign paperwork at the recruiting office so my dad we took my old kickboxing hand wraps when we wrapped up my hands nice and tight I grabbed a hammer and he took like medical athletic tape and we wrapped it around my hand to where I was holding on to it and he that's how I'd 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 that that pain was what I was gonna feel you know I don't I don't know how I ever think my old man for what he did he he put everything into me that summer because he knew that I had to be at a different level I was only 18 most young kids don't make it through SEAL training and that's a good thing we don't want young immature kids running all around the world with top-secret clearances and charge of millions of dollars worth of gear and more importantly other people's lives right so that training is designed to weed out the mentally weak to weed out the immature and to weed out the guys that aren't able to step up and lead and my dad knew that he knew that from my uncles that have been in the military he did his research and so my dad pushed me he pushed me to my physical and mental limits every single day that summer a whole yeah boys like Mexico do you need gloves did you say it freezing [Music] we should get storytimes a media a good story for us yeah I've never been good at just like randomly coming up with a story like it's going to come out of like a conversation no I know I know but I was saying is got a handful of those the mindset that Jocko brought to our task you that was completely different than any of the other task unit commanders and you could tell I mean the attitude of our tasking it was a reflection of Jocko and so in tasking of bruiser he had Charlie platoon and Delta platoon and Lafe babban was the OIC which is the officer in charge of Charlie Patton and Chris Kyle was the point man and lead sniper and Charlie Patton and then I was in Delta platoon I was Chris's opposite I was a point man and lead sniper in Delta platoon and the Delta platoon commander was Seth Stubb and South was like my big brother man we we went through sqt together we graduated sqt which is our the SEAL qualification training it's the advanced training after buds it's it's where you actually learn to be a seal if I'm aiming out this way right and I'm going to engage a target and the wind is coming from the right I actually am going to hold my crosshairs to the right depending on how far away that shot is how fast the wind is coming in like how hard that wind is coming in you might just slightly holds the edge sometimes you actually are holding off the target like you're here your Center crosshair is actually completely off the target and then you'll get that dead center hit we're all given instincts of how to do the things that were meant to be and I truly believe that God it's a design for me at that point in my life was to be in the SEAL Teams and to be an efficient sniper not 11 I was standing right next to my racket in boot camp I was in my sixth day at boot camp and I remember the doors to our barracks flung open and I remember one of the recruit drill commanders came in he was a senior chief and he said our nation's been attacked terrorists flew airplanes into the Twin Towers base is on lockdown we're going to war I was only 18 years old I remember I was so pissed off that I wanted to get overseas as fast as possible and I knew that I had made the right decision there is no question that I was going to make it through training I could not get to training fast enough and every single day I'd wake up was just that love for my country I love this country there is there is no greater country than the country we live in and I've always known that we're not a perfect country either but our country came together we bonded we we strengthened together as a group when that happened and I remember all the different just the diversity in in the military in general and especially in the barracks and I remember everyone just looking at each other like hey we're in this together I'll never forget that feeling probably do it from right here yeah where we can go down to that platform but right here is probably gonna be yeah that's gonna be the best okay cool my first deployment we did our first workup well I check it in SEAL Teams I'm a new guy we do our work up and we find out that instead of going overseas to do the direct action the capture kill missions like the SEAL Teams have been doing it have been absolutely crushing we were going to do personal security detail which is the babysitting of adults we found out that we were going to be keeping the top dignitaries in Iraq safe during the election timeframe and as you can imagine we're not very thrilled about that 760 to 900 between those two this one on the right obviously that's closer it's about six will you arrange minder tell you what yes yeah okay how the buck says that one the furthest one away in the middle yeah that would be over a thousand yards yeah so you're saying that's over a thousand hundred bucks hunter bought hundred dollars and I just met one hundred dollars yeah kids ain't throwing away a hundred dollars hey we're out at this overwatch looking over the lake and from the plateau spot that we parked the vehicles and the shooter set up thrown that piece of steel on the other side of the lake how far away is that is it more than us so is not more than a thousand no oh okay thank you appreciate you sir we'll see ya there [Laughter] Wow but you know it was our job and you do your job and that was our mission and it wasn't a mission we were happy about but it was a mission that needed to be done and so we did it and we did a really good job at it and we came home and I remember hearing about things starting to get bad overseas out west we started to hear the term insurgency being thrown out and that's when we met Jocko that's when Jocko came in as our tasking a commander we did our work up and we found out that we're headed over to Ramadi and I remember finding out that we're headed over to hurmati were fired up we knew it was a bad area and that's the thing I love about the SEAL Teams is you want to go to the absolute worst place you want to deploy to those bad areas and Ramadi was a legit deployment I was our lead sniper I was our point man when I walked point I carried the mark 46 which was a belt-fed five five six machine gun I had two hundred rounds on the gun and most the time I could carry another 600 to 800 rounds on my body with another 200 in my back I mean anywhere between a thousand and twelve hundred rounds at a time it was legit Ramadi was the deployment that we wanted that SEALs want it was that sustained urban combat because it was the absolute worst area in the world at that time like we have almost no wind like this is awesome so I'll probably miss a shot because it's an ideal situation behind you ready go time yeah Ramadi was the best and worst times of my life you guys want to shoot at 500 yes okay yeah let me get some rounds just being with the guys and not just our platoon not just our task unit but the soldiers and Marines that we worked with are some of the best memories I've ever had besides my kids being born the absolute best memories yeah and that's the other thing also is sometimes we'll say all said now there's a wind that kicked up so now I'm holding high and off so I'm having a line up those those hash marks on the sites where I want that point of impact to be so the cross hairs aren't on the target anymore they're to the left and high or something like that so you're making those types of adjustments and taking 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 serious as we did what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to clear and safe this gun real quick because I want you to dry fire on target and get used to that and so you can feel and make sure that when you pulled the gun I'm sorry when you pulled the trigger it was smooth and you weren't trying to rush that shot okay once you've done that once or twice good stay in that position I will then load the weapon we'll make it hot and then you'll take that shot all right good to go I mean just sitting up on a rooftop when you're having a rockets fired at your building and there's bullets cracking over your head and there's balls cracking all on the roof and your buddies sitting right next to you laughing pulling out a can of dip packing a dip going well can't do anything else right now you just look over and you're just laughing with your buddies there you go they just keep the yep just keep your hand like that alongside the gun if you want now put your right finger index finger on the trigger you're going to control your breathing I want you to breathe in and as you breathe out the crosshair should be centered in on that target that's nice okay going to do exactly what you just did all right it is on fire it is ready to go so just go ahead and touch the trigger with your finger all right you have your point of contact now control your breathing on you [Applause] you're like rinds like almost crazy did you feel the amount of stress you imposed upon yourself though oh I mean it's a controlled environment right perfectly controlled environment everything set up boom I'm like alright go ahead and I washed your body posture change as soon as I was behind you I'm like right on you go ahead and you're like you're good to go it was like I'm like why am i nervous oh yeah but you're doing good you're just right well hey have you ever done this before not like this exactly it's something new right and you know it's the fact that we're filming it or hit it's it's a it's an environment that you're not used to and that's good huh dude that's awesome you know and then there's the times when you hear over the radio that a guy got wounded or a guy got killed and the soldiers and Marines that we were working with those guys got wounded a lot and unfortunately I had a large handful of those guys were killed on that deployment as well now we're going to memorial services regularly for our brothers if I was out here veg DUP you'd have no idea where I was out that's the terrifying thing about what snipers can do you know so look out there and we're sitting up here somebody legitimately could take shots on us from anywhere 360 degrees and we have no idea where it came from and then one of the times we got task to do a mission where we're gonna head north of the area that we're in and it was a rural area it kind of looked like the old videos from Vietnam you know there's the fields there's the trees on the outskirts of these fields were along the river and we head up there with our platoon and myself with another guy we're gonna have to put on our ghillie suits get veg dislocation to a location where we're completely separated from group and the ideal location that we found was completely isolated there wasn't the ideal location for us when it came to safety wise but that's where we needed to set up and so we we slipped in there in the middle of night we get ourselves completely veg Doug but into place and there was times where we had guys three to five meters away from us and we are completely veg DUP and they have no idea were there because that was a thing in Sniper school is they test you also on your shots right and so you take you tell them that you're ready to take the shot and then the instructor would get within a certain radius of where you're at like they have instructors walk in the fields and they get close to us not right on top of us but they get close to us and we'd have to take a shot and they would know where I mean so you're looking at let's say I mean for instance the the steel that we're gonna shoot at so if you knew a sniper was within a certain area of there they would have to take a shot and you're watching that area to try to see where that where that shot came from that cop you ever get caught no not once and we were set up throughout the night throughout the day and there's times like if you had to to take a piss you're literally rolling slightly to a side carving out a little bit of the dirt you're leaving yourself putting the dirt back over it and laying back down in that same spot and it took a lot of discipline and it took a lot the heat that's the biggest thing is when you're in this thick ghillie suit your veg DUP and it's a hundred and ten hundred and twenty degrees while you're outside there in the middle of summer in Iraq and just I remember just the sweat just completely just dripping 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 from the distance and you know those are mortars it's one of the most terrifying noises that you hear in combat my opinion because you have no idea where they're going to hit and we didn't think they could be coming to our location but we also knew that the enemy that we were fighting was smart and they would sometime mortar own known locations in case US troops are setting up on those spots and we got hit by those mortars then again the absolute grace of God that myself and this other guy came out of it without major injuries everything around us was just shredded from the blast and our radios went down I just remember just I felt like I got choked out or knocked out because it was just loud ringing everything was just like we're real blurry and just like this ways of noise coming in and myself in the sky we look at each other we make sure we're okay scan the area to make sure there's no enemy fighters directly on us we're trying to figure out what we're going to do because we had contingency plans that if we got into contact our guys were going to come to a location set up an ambush lay down suppressive cover fire so we could fall back but we couldn't radio them our radios had been damaged by the blast and so we we wait for a good amount of time we fall back to their location and we were sick I remember I was throwing up the other guy was puking as well we had to wait until the night fall came so that we could actually patrol back we're gonna try to get boats to come up the river to extract us out us 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 base and the whole time like we're trying to patrol super dizzy sick throwing up piss some blood when we get back had blood in our stool it was a close call we were very lucky but that's what our deployment was like every day and as crappy of a situation as that was it's a great memory because I remember laying next to my bro in the worst environment possible and were just laughing at each other just obviously very silently very quiet but just like it sucked so bad that it was awesome because we knew we were doing what people dreamed of doing and that was something that I dreamed of ever since I was a little boy I wanted to be veg dup as a sniper and we got those guys we got the mortar team we called in the location we called in everything and our base didn't get more turd for a while so it was 100% worth that Punisher simple on the side things were out what do you think about what you hold that helmet I just think about robotic I think I heard that our first trip as a task unit is out in the desert for a landlord for training when Jacko told me to go do that to my home I mean he's like so 550 cord let me put on the helmet and then you would connect your night vision to that so that if the mountain baroque you're not losing your night vision and then freedom is not free and the Brotherhood I wrote in sharpie on the back of it and now I have a different helmet with Jaco knife again getting to do what I do with that salon front so it's unique to see how it all comes back together have you put that on sense give it up no yeah I do nope no need to scream oh [ __ ] y'all can see me get emotional this means everything some of my best friends roommates they gave everything for this flag for I mean for my ability to sit here and talk with you guys today you know for our freedoms I remember uh escorting Mikey's body home so Mikey Mansoor was killed on September 29th 2006 we were packed up ready to go home they push out on one last mission there's a sniper overwatch they kill a handful of enemy insurgents throughout the day and a grenade gets tossed up onto the rooftop and it hits Mike in the chest and bounces in front of them and instead of trying to turn away or jump a different direction Mikey jumped on top of that grenade and absorbed most of that blast for the other two guys that were on the rooftop next to him directly 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 as a1 mission I wasn't on in our deployment to romani and my finger got cut down to the bone and they pulled me out we went to the AIDS Center which was a med med Center that we had and they were they thought I was gonna lose my finger so I got council backed out of there flown down had emergency surgery and we were wrapping up deployment anyway so we didn't think anything of it I go back to the main base and I remember I went for a run I was I was on a run and one of the guys pulls up next to me in a truck said hey something happened it's not looking very good you know Mikey and a couple of the other guys are wounded you need to come back right now we were probably gonna have to go give blood and I just remember everything stopped who's that it was a feeling that guy had never felt before and then I go back and we're waiting to hear what's going on we're in the talk and Jaco and the rest of our leadership they're trying to figure out what's going on and then I remember they told us that Mikey had passed away and myself and a couple of the other guys we we asked organ back to San Diego and I remember sitting next to his his casket for portions of the flight and I would the flag draped over that casket is a beautiful and horrible sight I just remember thinking about all the stories that Mikey and I had shared I remember thinking about his family I felt guilty I felt angry I felt just I felt uncertain right there's a lot of doubt I was doubting my actions I was doubting my leadership sections why did they push out one more time well you know that's what we do we finish the mission we get the job done and Mike he understood the mission he knew what he had to do those guys knew it and they knew the risk I know Mikey died doing what he loved here'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 brother that we've lost in the SEAL Teams and we also lost Mark Lee on that deployment Ryan job was wounded handful other guys were wounded I've lost roommates and other best friends yeah this this flag means everything to me just over 7,000 the the kid that grew up with the speech impediment and said he'd never talk in front of groups the flow state multiple times because I felt like I took four of the disparate goes this morning yeah dude I just felt it the whole time of one who's the offside this [ __ ] better not crashed before the keynote something takes more yeah the future is is awesome and because of what I'm able to do with echelon front I'm a leadership speaker and instructor with echelon front or Director of our field training exercises which is our hands-on scenario-based training which I absolutely love the value that it brings to our clients is is unlike anything else and it's crazy to think about what I'm gonna be doing in a couple days I'll be speaking with the company the first half of the day it's gonna be 700 other their key leaders we're gonna do a half-day workshop and then after lunch during a keynote combat leadership speech in front of 7,000 people 230 it's going to start and then they say I'm up at 3 so from 3 to 4 he's when I go I mean what are you doing after all the way around [Music] that blows my mind I grew up with a speech impediment I grew up having to do speech therapy I never wanted to speak in front of people I used to tell myself and my family all knew that I don't ever want to have to speak in front of people used to terrify me and I realized that that was just a false fear that I had in my mind and was the driving force to many of the very combat operation shock relief wrote about in the book extreme ownership as a member of echelon front Gentry brings a fascinating perspective into winning the mindset and culture of testing of bruiser 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 Phills team 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 [Applause] the impact that we're able to deliver with the message of extreme ownership to companies to individuals is absolutely amazing you know my mission has changed because life demands that and that was the hardest thing for me to figure out when I got out of the SEAL Teams is that I wasn't in the SEAL Teams anymore as much as I loved that job and that was the absolute best job in the world hands down was being in the SEAL Teams that wasn't a chapter in my life anymore and my life is a book and my my life is gonna have many chapters and that was a great chapter but I had to move on I had to do I had to adjust to this new mission just like in combat our mission changed daily and we had to make those changes there are some times we'd be in the middle of a mission and we had to change up the mission because things had changed where we didn't plan out that mission properly you have to be able to realize when your mission changes and now my new mission I feel is just as important it's for me to be the best leader that I can to my family to my friends to my wife to my kids I changed the way I look at stuff in life instead of saying I have to do something I tell myself I get to and that was in mines that I had going through buds every single day I get to do this I get to go for a four mile time run I get to go for an ocean swim I get to work I get to do this because I know that there are thousands of men all across the world that would love to have the opportunity that I have there are worse days or somebody's dreams the things that we complain about somebody would love have those issues and problems so yeah I get to do a lot of great stuff I get to train jiu-jitsu I get to get smashed every time I go to my gym and train at peak I mean these this gym is unreal it's just the camaraderie at that gym the Brotherhood at that gym is what I was missing when I got out that's I feel it's it's never going to replace what I felt in the SEAL Teams but it is it is very close I was a sniper overwatch and to see an enemy fighter trying to set up on other soldiers and Marines or your own guys in the streets and having the ability to take that shot and eliminate that threat is extremely rewarding the ability to zoom in on a human being and see the whites of their eyes when they have no idea that you're watching them is unlike anything else I have to stay focused I have to be engaged I have to be disciplined in everything that I do otherwise I'm going to fail and failure is not an option we couldn't fail in the SEAL Teams I can't fail in my family I can't fail my friends and I can't fail my brothers that gave everything that sacrificed everything so that we can do what we do I'm not going to fail them I will not fail

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Length: 37min 56sec (2276 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/YOUREABOT]

God Bless JP and ALL of the men and women who serve to keep our country safe and free.

[u/gman094]

What kind of rifle is that?