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Ones Ready

Ep 234: Family in AFSPECWAR- Challenges, Triumphs and Failures

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

🗓️ 24 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This week, we tackled one of the most crucial decisions an individual can make- what about my family? When you devote all your time, energy, and focus, is it possible to have a family and be successful? Moreover, how can you ensure that you maintain joyful and healthy relationships as an Air Force Special Warfare Operator? We cover all your inquiries- from the operational tempo and its impact on relationships to handling children- even if you are currently single, this...

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0:00.0

We're going back to the ones ready podcast. That's right. I just went in there just, you know,

0:12.4

because not giving you guys a heads up at all because that's what I do. It's very unbranded.

0:17.5

Yeah, very unbranded. You know, so, you know, we're going to cover something for the folks out

0:25.6

there. We're going to cover something that we covered. I think it was about two years ago. Maybe

0:33.0

that was a long time ago. Yeah, it was a while ago. Plus, it was only really only Trent and Brian

0:39.5

that were on there. So, we want to give a little bit more perspective. Plus, it's been two years

0:45.2

and kind of perspectives change and stuff like that. So, what we're going to talk about is families

0:50.7

and what it's like doing this job with a family or maybe some perspective on what the families

0:57.6

go through and how they feel throughout the job. So, I would never pretend to think on what

1:07.6

my wife believes. It goes on there. It's careful. It's probably an aggro, but yeah, I think it'll

1:17.9

be good. So, I honestly, I don't even know where to start in terms of asking you guys questions,

1:24.5

but yeah, you know, because I'm going to interview you guys. That's the way this works.

1:29.2

Because you're going to keep yourself out of the doghouse. I know. This is a good idea. That's

1:33.1

all the danger our way. You know, the intro makes a lot more sense now. Now that Peach is like,

1:37.2

no, I'm running this one. No questions this way. Guys, I'm the one just running this open panel.

1:43.3

I mean, we'll start with the, you know, we'll start with the elephant in the room, right? Like,

1:46.6

special operations career field have high rates of divorce. They have high rates of folks not

1:51.0

making it. But to be honest with you, it's really comparable to like the larger American culture as

1:56.9

it is right now. Like, you are going flip plus. So, I want to say divorce rates in America are more

2:02.1

than 50% now, right? Like, you're probably not going to make it in your relationship if you were

2:08.3

to just look at the data anyway. So, when you add on things, like the amount of TDYs we go on,

2:12.5

the stressors, the trauma that we've talked about for years here on the podcast, of course,

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