This is Part II of a four-part series on Nay SEAL John Zinn. Click here for Part I. In the spring of 2000, John Zinn asked his lawyer father, Michael, to help him form his own corporation: a restaurant that would include a gigantic man-made wave so that people could come to the restaurant and […]

I met John Zinn in the late 90s when we had both just completed our respective BUD/S classes and joined Team Three. I was standing in the middle of a class on advanced diving techniques while our instructor gave a safety brief, something about how to avoid getting sucked into giant turbines and turned into […]

In mid-2006, after having run the SEAL sniper course for two and a half years, I finally decided to leave the service and go into the private sector. The entrepreneurial impulse was as much in my blood as aviation, maybe even more. So I decided to follow a dream that had been bubbling up throughout […]

Do you want an unfair advantage? I do! In the SEAL Teams, especially us snipers, we always look for one. Some military skills translate well in the civilian world. Some don’t. What has propelled me in my own civilian career as a bestselling author, executive producer on my upcoming TV series, and entrepreneur is mental […]

Even now, I couldn’t tell you the exact day. All I know is this: I had gone into this building with an assault team and now found myself standing alone in what looked like an abandoned warehouse, a dimly-lit clear-span space about the size of an average high school gymnasium. And I was in it, […]

This is Part III of a three-part series on Navy SEAL Matt Axelson. You can read Part II here and Part I here. I quickly saw why Matt’s platoon mates had given him the nickname Cool Hand Luke, and it wasn’t just his resemblance to Paul Newman. It was that unshakable equanimity under pressure. People […]