Now, three hours and sixteen minutes later, he stood at the aircraft’s open bay door and stared out at the 13,000 feet of nothingness between him and the ground.The only easy day was yesterday.It was the motto of the United States Navy SEALs, the best-trained military force in the world, and Brennan had adopted it as his own a long time ago. He’d been dreaming of becoming a SEAL since he was eight years old. It was all he ever wanted to be.Three of his fellow SEAL candidates had taken the plunge from the treaded hatch deck already, and five more were waiting in line behind him. Brennan wanted to take a step forward and join his teammates in the dive, but he could not. Paralyzed with fear, he stood there and watched as their parachutes opened in the distance.Three or four seconds ticked by. An eternity.Chief Watson, the jump coordinator, shouted, “Do it, Brennan! Go! Go! Go!”But Brennan didn’t go. He couldn’t.“I can’t,” he shouted back at the chief.Brennan was in excellent physical condition.
