Ep 301: USAF CCT Functional Manager CMSgt Geoff Ikert- CCT UPDATES

Ones Ready

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

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

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

You could say that Ones Ready *REALLY* puts the FUN in FUNctional manager, you know what I'm saying!!!! We have fun here.

Combat Control Trainees- listen up, this one is for you. Combat Controller, Chief Master Sergeant Geoff Ikert has a 20 year career full of accolades. Chief Ikert sat down with Aaron and Peaches to talk about every single update you need for the pipeline.

Thanks to Chief Ikert for providing the ground truth on what's happening in the world of Combat Control, both pipeline changes and in the career field.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Combat Control Career Field
01:33 Background and Journey to Combat Control
03:27 Military Experience and Deployment
05:22 Interest in Air Force Special Operations
06:20 Role of Combat Control in Air Force
07:44 Transitioning to Air Force and Challenges
09:38 First Assignment at Mildenhall
12:19 Experience as an Overseas Airman
13:15 Maturity and Responsibility in Special Operations
15:07 Role of Special Operations in Low Intensity Conflict
16:54 Forecasting the Future of Special Tactics
25:51 Consolidation and Efficiency in Air Force Special Warfare
32:59 The Value of Joint Terminal Attack Control (JTAC)
35:22 The Evolution of Global Access and Force Projection
38:18 Consolidation and Efficiency in Air Force Special Warfare
42:05 Expectation Management and Opportunities
46:58 Combat Diver Qualification
50:13 Training and Qualifications
53:06 Advice for Joining

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the team room everybody. You are hanging out with Aaron and I and then we have Chief Jeff Eichert who is the Combat Control
0:17.6	Career Field Functional Manager. So basically nothing happens in Combat Control without your say so, right?
0:24.8	You're the approval authority for anything and everything in combat control?
0:27.6	Yeah, no, definitely the judge jury executioner of anything combat control.
0:33.0	I love how you do it up there.
0:35.0	One man panel.
0:36.0	Let's start off strong here.
0:39.0	Here's what, here's why it goes guys, new sheriff in town.
0:42.0	Hi, my name's is Jeff I run everything and I hate you all yeah yeah yeah
0:48.8	that's that's pretty much how it comes down you know we try to create people in our image. Clearly you're not like me so you're fired.
0:57.2	I'll hand over my brain and we'll call it good. And oh right. Well this is fun. See you.
1:02.1	Well good Jeff. Appreci appreciate you joining us. So, well, tell us a little bit about yourself like how you, because you are not, you were prior army, if I remember right, and, but I don't remember what you did in the Army before you
1:16.7	before you head over. So give us a little bit of background about how you found yourself
1:20.9	to be the career- feel functional for CCT?
1:24.0	Yeah, no, well, to start at the end, right?
1:28.1	The last man standing, no kidding.
1:30.4	But I joined the, I was actually an ROTC cadet for a little while and that's what kind of got me interested in in the Air Force you know that a flyer in the mailbox in college that freshman year that was like, hey, you want to shoot an
1:43.5	M16 and throw an grenade? And I was like, the hell yeah, man.
1:47.4	And so this, you know, all prior to 9-11, because we all old. But so started there, right? Did MS-1 and MS-2 years a freshman sophomore, Army or
2:00.8	ROTC and was introduced to the military, you know, I don't have a military background in my family.
2:07.1	But it was something that kind of jailed with me.
2:09.7	The camaraderie, the kind of sense of service, you know, and then you get to, you know, watch things explode and shoot things even as an RTC for that, right?
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