Ep 255: Ones Ready Special: The SOF Truths Explained- Truth II

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

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Special Operations Forces use a simple framework to assess, select, train, equip, employ, deploy, and support their force across the DoD. This framework is known as the "SOF Truths". You may have heard of them before, but in this 5 Part Series, Aaron and Peaches dig down deep to explain what they are, how to apply them, and how to avoid the problems they were meant to solve. In this episode, we look at SOF Truth II- Quality is better than quantity. Directly from the U...

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the ones ready podcast. You're in the team room.
0:10.4	We've got Aaron and I and we wanted to talk to you about a few things that really we have
0:17.2	kind of lived the entire time within special operations and special operations command
0:22.7	has what they call soft truths or special operations force truths. And it's kind of the mantra that
0:30.8	all of us try and live by and aspire to be. So what we're going to do is we're going to hop
0:36.8	on into each one of them and give you some details on kind of what they are and what our perspectives
0:42.4	are on them. Yeah. Yeah. And then enjoy. What's up, y'all? Welcome back. Jumping into the soft
0:51.2	truth series that we're doing. You got me. You got peaches. That's 50% of the people you like
0:56.2	and 50% of the people you wish will jump off the face of the earth. So you know what? We got a baby
1:00.9	we're here. So going on in this series where we're really talking about the soft truths. Remember
1:05.4	the soft truths talk about special operations forces, but they can be applied to a large range of
1:11.2	people of work, of teams, everything really, right? So as you listen to this, yes, special operations
1:17.2	forces we use these are basic food groups for just about everything, you know, we talk about
1:21.6	training, deployment, all that other stuff. But remember, you can apply these to your daily life
1:25.6	as well. So soft truth to quality is better than quantity. A small number of people carefully
1:32.0	selected, well trained and well led are preferable to larger number of troops, some of whom may not be
1:39.4	up to the task. That is interesting wording from that's directly from the US Socom, you know,
1:44.4	fact sheet and website and stuff. You can check this out over at socom.mil, just google the
1:49.2	soft truths and you can kind of find out what Socom has to say about them. But there's some words
1:53.5	in here and I kind of want to I want to break this one down. It's a it's a shorter soft truth,
1:57.7	right? And to us, it's apparent, you know, to us this one, you're like, yeah, no kidding, quality
2:02.5	is better than quantity, right? But I really want to break it down because it's actually for a short
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