Ep 371: Steven Pietras - USAF Air Traffic Control & Hurricane Helene Response

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

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Aaron, Peaches, Trent, and Steven get real about the dedication it takes to respond to crises. Steven shares his firsthand experience as a Guard member running ATC for Hurricane Helene relief, describing the ground-level coordination that brought in over 100,000 pounds of supplies and thousands of flights in and out of affected areas. They dig into the pride and resilience it takes to run toward disaster while others might turn away, showing how the Guard and...

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0:00.0	you know who's not a good dude
0:08.8	are you
0:11.8	who's Stephen Petrus
0:14.1	you know when I first met Peaches I was like
0:16.6	I hope that this dude does not have any siblings
0:19.4	and I was immediately.
0:22.8	That is possibly the best intro that I've ever heard.
0:25.0	Welcome back to the ones ready podcast, everybody.
0:26.8	We got a good one for you.
0:27.6	It's got the whole team here.
0:28.9	We actually have like, so usually you only need one peaches.
0:31.5	We got two peaches.
0:32.4	So we got, you know,
0:33.1	peaches the original and then Peaches the weird carbon copy. I'm actually not sure which one of you
0:37.6	guys is older, but we're going to talk to Stephen Peters today. We're going over a lot of stuff,
0:41.3	man. Stephen did great work. I'm not going to, I'm not going to bury the lead here. So Stephen did
0:45.2	great work in North Carolina. He was one of those dudes that answered the call because that's what
0:49.1	we do in Aspect War. We don't wait for permission. We act when other people need help. And we're going to jump into that store.
0:54.6	But for right now, go over the ones ready.com shop.
0:57.4	Go and check some stuff out.
0:59.1	Another cool thing about Stephen is he's the guy that comes up with the designs for our T-shirts and safe house supply company.
1:04.8	So admin reveal complete.
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