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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Today Dan is joined by former combat controller and member of ataclete, Jared Pietras.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Citizen. |
| 0:14.1 | We got a special guest today. |
| 0:15.8 | I don't, does anybody know your actual name? |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, it's a mixture. |
| 0:20.6 | Some people, like Aaron and Trent will call me Jared, but most people knows me as Peaches. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. Jared Petrus is your name. Yes. Which is very close to Peaches, which I assume is the origin of that. Yeah, it's not real creative, right? you know, during selection when you're yelling at somebody and you're supposed to be you know this big tough |
| 0:37.7 | badass and uh you get named peaches you know it's supposed to be demeaning and all that kind of |
| 0:42.6 | stuff and yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean it's like calling a tall a big dude tiny i guess um except i am |
| 0:50.9 | tiny yeah you are yes you're a little person. You're a small. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, it's, it is pretty funny to have operators named Peaches, to be honest. |
| 1:01.7 | That makes me laugh. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.3 | Because I mean, between our group of friends probably, there's got to be like a thousand or more people that we |
| 1:14.3 | know or are familiar with who are fucking pipe headers |
| 1:16.9 | and I can't think of anybody with a gay or nickname yeah |
| 1:20.0 | but I take it congratulations I mean that's like if you're going to be something |
| 1:23.6 | be the fucking best at it I think I am i like that um so you and um you you and the guys |
| 1:32.2 | started ones ready yep and it's like uh the so the air force is so much different than the |
| 1:37.1 | other branches in this regard with regard to the pipeline to get to um a particular uh you guys call them career fields, but you guys like bundle |
| 1:49.1 | career fields and there's a early pipeline and then you kind of branch off as you go on. |
| 1:54.2 | I guess Special Forces has that a little bit where you go to the different A schools after |
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