Ep 409: Special Tactics Training Squadron Updates with Maj Chris Walsh

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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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us a textIn this episode, we dive deep into why the Air Force is reimagining its Special Tactics pipeline. Peaches, Aaron, and Trent chat with Maj Col Chris Walsh about why change fatigue is a cop-out, the pitfalls of staying stuck in GWOT-era training, and why your excuses are just as outdated as your skills. From CVT validations to the mysteries of SOCOM expectations, this episode is equal parts brutal truth and unfiltered sarcasm. Like, subscribe, smash the bell, leave a review, ...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.0	Hey everybody, before we hop into this next episode with Major Chris Walsh, yeah, I got the rank wrong in the beginning.
0:13.7	He is a Lieutenant Colonel Select or promotable, but he is not wearing it yet.
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1:01.2	Special Tactics Training Squadron Commander and kind of the changes they're going through right now.
1:06.8	Later. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast. You're in the team room again. It's Aaron Trent. And then we have a returning guest, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Walsh. Thanks for joining us, sir. Hey, that's good to be back. Yeah, absolutely. So for the folks that don't know, you know, your background and where you're currently sitting and the kind of things you're getting after now.
1:28.0	I want you give us a quick recap before we get into the kind of meat and potatoes
1:32.0	of what we were we were going to talk about.
1:35.2	Yeah.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:37.1	So I guess way back when I guess to join the Air Force in 2009, to start out as aircraft maintenance officer, cross-trained in 2000.
1:45.0	I got selected in 2010.
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