Ep 471: Recon, Rage, & Real Talk With James Sisco

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 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us a text Strap in, degenerates. In this brutally honest, no-holds-barred episode of Ones Ready, we sit down with Recon Marine, The War Journal author, intelligence community insider, and potential future Ambassador to Afghanistan—James. Freakin’ Sisco. This isn’t your average “rah-rah” war story episode. Sisco takes us deep into the grit and grime of Desert Storm, recounts the absolute hilarity of rolling into combat with Oakleys and Guns N’ Roses, and then slams you into an emotional b...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.2	Hey, everybody.
0:08.0	Welcome back to the ones ready podcast.
0:09.9	You're in the team room.
0:16.0	Listen, we've got a solid guest coming up.
0:18.5	You guys are really going to enjoy it.
0:19.8	James Cisco looking to be, I mean, the guy talking to him, great story.
0:25.8	Prior Marine, prior recon Marine, was in Desert Storm.
0:30.4	The dude has his hands in literally everything.
0:34.3	It's crazy.
0:36.7	Afghanistan, Iraq, intelligence community.
0:42.8	What am I missing? He's an author, New York Times bestselling author.
0:47.2	Yeah, Department of State stuff. All the things. All the things.
0:50.8	Jeez, man. Don't hold State against him, though. He's not one of those State Department guys, you know what I mean?
0:57.6	No, absolutely not.
0:58.9	But we had a great conversation.
1:00.3	We really enjoyed having them on, and I think we're going to end up having him on for a part two to really do a deep dive in Afghanistan here in the future.
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