Becoming a Navy SEAL, Knives, and Other Stuff with Payden Armstrong

A lot of people romanticize the idea of becoming a SEAL— they don't know what it takes to get there. It's years of training before you're even operational. Payden Armstrong is one of the few people who's lived through that experience. As a former SEAL himself, Payden walks me through what it took to join SEAL Team 3, as well as some of his deployments. Now Payden is a co-founder of the companies Norden Knives and Norden Outdoors. We discuss gear and how to innovate a tool that's been used for thousands of years.

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Chapters

• 2:21 Introductions
• 3:17 Military Recruiting
• 5:29 Bootcamp
• 11:09 Hardest Part of Training
• 11:58 Dealing with Doubt
• 13:23 SEAL Qualification Training
• 14:54 Surviving Extreme Cold
• 17:23 Shelter Building
• 19:09 Romanticizing the Training
• 20:23 SEAL Team 3
• 21:49 Deployments
• 23:01 Specialties
• 24:59 Retiring a Dog
• 26:37 Having a Dog on Missions
• 28:17 Medically Retired
• 31:00 Wrestling
• 34:03 Innovating Knives
• 36:18 Knife Sheaths
• 38:32 Knife Steel
• 42:12 Norden
• 45:24 Learn More About Norden