Ep 469: What Does Special Reconnaissance Do?

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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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Send us a text You’ve asked. We’ve avoided. But today? We answer. In this no-holds-barred, caffeine-fueled episode, Aaron and Trent finally break down what Special Reconnaissance (SR) actually does—why it exists, why it’s not just “Air Force Marine Recon,” and why anyone trying to say “but SEALs can do that” needs to go touch grass. Trent—who literally helped write the playbook for SR—lays out why the Air Force had to level up from SOWT, why SR isn’t a clone of other recon units, and how SR b...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.0	All right.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.2	Welcome back, everybody, to the On's Ready podcast.
0:09.2	We got a quick one for you.
0:10.2	You know what?
0:10.7	We get this question all the time, so we're just going to fix it.
0:13.8	What does SR do?
0:14.9	So I brought on the guy that wrote exactly what SR does and can explain it.
0:18.7	Trent, you were an SR guy and previously you were a Sao-T guy.
0:22.5	So quick hitter, why did we change from Sao-T to SR?
0:27.0	The need, the demand signal from the Pentagon changed.
0:30.9	Right.
0:31.5	I mean, there were political things and all that other stuff.
0:33.9	But as we look towards the near-pe peer, whatever you want to call it,
0:38.7	next generation fight, there were gaps, especially in the Air Force, tactical infrastructure that
0:44.5	needed to be filled. They had a small career field that was going through some stuff anyway,
0:48.2	and they're like, you know what would be better if we just had a special reconnaissance career
0:51.9	filled to be the tactical arm of the EW Intel type folks to get out there and solve these problems to allow the Air Force to be a leader instead of just an enabler in the next gen fight.
1:02.3	We look for capabilities, not for people, right?
1:04.5	So people talk about SR and they look at what SR is and they think about it's inverse the way that they think about it.
1:12.0	Right.
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