How This Man Went from Being a Troubled Teen to a Navy SEAL

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How This Man Went from Being a Troubled Teen to a Navy SEAL

He overcame a lot to get through SEAL training and be successful on the teams.

[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Remi Adeleke’s life is straight out of a Hollywood movie.

[/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]Born in Nigeria and living the first few years of his life with extreme wealth, everything took a drastic turn for Adeleke, now 36, when his father died, they lost all of their money, and his mother moved him to the Bronx.

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]“That’s where my American journey began,” Adeleke tells PEOPLE. “And it didn’t start off well.”

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]At 8 years old, he began to steal, and when he went to high school, he began selling drugs and running a fake sneaker business.

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]“By the time I was 19, I was bringing in thousands and thousands of dollars,” he recalls. “I was using that money to fund a record company because that was my dream.”

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]It took Adeleke getting into a “very bad deal with a drug dealer” who showed up at his apartment and threatened both his life and his mother’s for him to “wake up and change everything”.

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]He vowed that very night to leave his rough and dangerous life in the past. For the next six months, he thought hard about what to do next.

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)]“I decided to join the military,” says Adeleke. “I finally came to the realization that I had nothing left. I had failed at everything in my mind. I had failed at my record company, I had failed at selling drugs, I failed at all of these things and I was like, ‘What else do you have left, Remi? You have absolutely nothing left.’ I had to hit rock bottom first.”[/COLOR]

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[Common]

Alot of young boys start out on the wrong foot and if they are lucky enough to not get busted with the serious stuff, they can turn it around.

[Tahuyaman]

Often times strenuous military training causes people to suddenly find themselves so to speak.