what are you a Navy SEAL now? We don’t write books,‘” Tom tells SOFREP. “It wasn’t a ‘look at me I do great things’ book; it was more like ‘ look at all the shit I screwed up.’ The stories were to keep people interested but really as you read it, you’ll find that Jen [Tom’s wife] is the hero of the story and I was the loser who kept stumbling over my own self.” Tom’s post-high-school plans included college and a job. It wasn’t until he went for a long car ride to a concert with a childhood friend who had enlisted that he decided to join the military.