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Ones Ready

Ep 225: Aircrew Flight Equipment Pro MSgt Gabe Macias

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered who packs the parachutes for those "cool guy" videos of Air Force Special Tactics team jumping into enemy territory or pilots ejecting from high-speed aircraft? The answer lies with the Aircrew Flight Equipment personnel, also known as "Parachute Riggers." They have one of the most important jobs in the Air Force, ensuring that the parachute opens flawlessly every time. It's not just operators who are crucial to the mission in Air Force Special T...

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0:00.0

Everybody before we jump into this podcast we brought on one of our good friends parachute packing American gave to see as he came on and talked about all things AFD and working those special war for emission support.

0:16.0

Do you need support? This is my try to Trent Segway. Do you need support during your day.

0:21.0

Namely from caffeine go and check out cardamacks so cardamacks.com. They've been our partner for a long time. Sean Madison runs cardamacks over there. He's awesome. We got the energy intensifier.

0:31.0

Trent, I've made this joke a million times. I don't know how many of these packets you can take in in a day, but I know how many I've seen you take in in a day and it's usually around like seven like you are just you're visualizing sounds.

0:43.0

Some of the times with the cardamacks packet so but the energy intensifier isn't the only thing that they have. They've also got their hydro max. So put those two things together. You're going to be hydrated as fast as you possibly can for small packages are super lightweight.

0:56.0

You can just throw them in any water or any sport strength that you got going and poof. You got a little energy on the run on the go. So go over to cardamacks.com. Throw our code in ones ready to check out.

1:06.0

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1:17.0

See I would have just said that they work a ton of hours supporting us because we're a bunch of morons and that way they need they need to be hydrated. They need the caffeine. That's true. That's true. And things that other things that help you like push through those those those days when you're you know working 12 24 hour shifts.

1:33.0

You got to you got to have the caffeine maybe for the emergencies, but also being fit. Do we know anybody that knows anything about fitness and jujitsu and growing sweet gray beard.

1:41.0

Oh, I had no idea who you were talking about until you hit the gray beard and then poof right my head. Kevin Edgerton over at 18 alpha fitness. So Kevin has a bunch of programs out there. We were talking just before we got on. I'm definitely going to go through his kettlebell for Brazilian jujitsu program here.

1:58.0

He's got stuff for everybody and it's not just people that are looking to go to the pipeline, but oh, by the way, if you want to go through any assessment selection and all the way through your career with a good stable battle chassis.

2:08.0

Kevin Edgerton is the one to do it. So go check them out over at 18 fitness use the code one ready at checkout and that'll get just sweet discount on his stuff. So that's the number one and then ready all caps with 18 alpha fitness.

2:19.0

Anything that you want to do and you don't even have to be somebody that's looking to do aspect war like hey, it's you know about to be March.

2:26.0

Did you have a New Year's resolution that you're like, oh man, I'm not getting to the gym as much as I possibly can. Kevin will help you get back on track. He provides video coaching one on one advice.

2:35.0

And the dude is a 100% bona fide badass. He's been an 18 series guy. He retired as an officer out of there and then worked in the special operations pipeline for us, the special worker pipeline.

2:47.0

So he has seen it all from, you know, straight up nobody that's, you know, ever trained before in their life and they just want to get a little bit more fit or maybe you're a jujitsu athlete all the way up to you want to be selected for army special forces are Marines.

3:00.0

So Kevin Edgerton is awesome. Go check them out at 18 alpha fitness.

3:05.0

Yeah, and now on to this sweet podcast with Gabe.

3:10.0

So sweet.

3:11.0

Stop everybody. Welcome back to the ones ready podcast back here in the team room. We got a special one for you this week.

3:16.0

We've started to bring in some other people from other AFCs we wanted to talk to that support rescue that support us see and today we brought back one of my favorite dudes. He's literally saved my life.

3:26.0

Game of sea is what's up my dude.

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