Ep 443: Optimize or Break: The Warfighter Performance Crisis

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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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast – where we cut through the nonsense and deliver the real deal on military performance. Today, Peaches sits down with Capt. Dane Sauer, an Air Force physiologist who actually understands how the human body works (unlike the military’s outdated policies). 👉 Why warfighters are breaking down faster than ever 👉 The real science behind sleep, recovery, and performance 👉 How outdated military medicine is screwing over operators Thi...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.0	Point a trip.
0:03.3	Go!
0:07.0	Hey, everybody.
0:07.9	Welcome back to the One's Ready podcast.
0:09.5	You're in the team room.
0:10.4	I have Captain Dane Dash Sauer.
0:13.5	Appreciate to join us, sir.
0:15.5	Yeah, my pleasure.
0:17.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:17.7	So you're a physiologist with the Air Force.
0:19.9	How long have you been doing that for?
0:22.0	Been doing this job for about six and a half years. I've been in 21, though, so I was a prior enlisted for the 14-year master when I finally crossed over to the dark side.
0:33.4	No way. Been around done a few things, yeah.
0:37.3	That's cool.
0:38.0	What did you do when you were enlisted, sweaty?
0:40.8	It was working as a 4J, so physical therapy assistant, tried to retrain out a couple of
0:46.5	times, crashed and burned, and ended up promoting enough to where they said you can't
0:51.7	retrain.
0:52.1	And I was like, all right, well, I guess I'll commission.
0:54.8	So which was an interesting route that I went on that too.
0:57.6	But yeah, it all worked out for sure.
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