Becoming A Combat Rescue Officer

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Buckle up ladies and gentlemen because this episode of the Ones Ready podcast is a doozy! Capt Jon "JMac" MacKenzie is a USAF Special Warfare Combat Rescue Officer or CRO for short. JMac was prior enlisted as a USAF Crew Chief where he worked on C-130s, but then crosstrained to be an enlisted PJ. After doing the PJ mission for 10+ years he was compelled to take the officer route which landed him as a CRO. JMac covers a bunch of different topics, like f...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the ones ready podcast, a team of Air Force Special
0:07.0	Operators forged in combat with over 70 years of combined operational
0:11.0	experience as well as a decade of selection instructor
0:14.0	experience. If you're tired of settling and you want to do something you truly
0:17.8	believe in, you're in the right place. Now here's your host, PJ team leader,
0:21.8	former in-doc instructor supervisor, entrepreneur, and physician assistant student Brian Silva.
0:28.0	What's happening everybody, Brian Silva for the Ones Ready Podcast. Today we're bringing to you what you've been asking for for a really long time the crow episode but not just any crow we're gonna be talking to Jonathan McKinsey Captain type he's a prior enlisted PJ who is going to be talking to you about his
0:46.2	transition from being a PJ for a real long time to transitioning into a crow and kind of what that's like he's
0:54.3	been at a lot of the phase two selections he has a lot of knowledge to drop on you guys
0:58.8	not only from his prior experiences and many deployments but also from the phase two side of the house and what you should be expecting, what is expected of you whenever you get to a phase two and get to that crow position.
1:12.0	So thank you guys again for listening to the podcast.
1:15.6	We appreciate all your messages and comments down in YouTube.
1:19.1	Make sure you check out the website, ones ready.com.
1:21.6	Lots of resources there. Check out our YouTube channel if you want to see some of the, you know, the hand gestures that we do, Peaches knife hand, you can see all of our awesome backgrounds that we have and check that out.
1:33.7	So make sure you go over there, like, subscribe.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:37.7	And Aaron has a fantastic, yeah, he's read all of those books.
1:41.7	Harry Potter.
1:43.0	I'm just trying to get real right now, dog.
1:44.2	You trying to get a broom on?
1:45.2	Yeah, it's like, quit it, whatever.
1:46.3	I'm a seeker.
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