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Navy SEAL: “Not Killing People Is Hard” - DJ Shipley - #1112
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Jun 18, 2026
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The Helo Ride In: Meditating Before Combat
At 24:36 · chapter starts 24:10
The flight to an operation — the whine of engines, the thousand-yard stares, mental rehearsal of every detail — is described as a form of meditation that creates feelings of omnipotence.
