Ep 480: USAF Basic Military Training - AFSW Advisor CCT Vick!

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

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us a text What do you get when you mix scarlet berets, dive school lies, and a belt company that quietly shames your Amazon nylon webbing? You get this week’s Ones Ready episode featuring the legendary Greg “Vic” Novickas—a battle-hardened Combat Controller who’s operated at every level of AFSOC and is now rewriting how we prepare the next generation of warfighters. Vic takes us through his journey from broke in Key West to tactically melting faces across the globe. From diving with infl...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.0	Point, Sergeant.
0:03.3	Go!
0:07.2	What is up, everybody?
0:08.4	Welcome back to the Ons Ready podcast.
0:09.7	You're about to see the whole team, Trent and Peaches and True Trent and Peach
0:12.4	Fashioned big time, and they got off the Riverside app before it is that we could actually
0:16.0	record a pre-roll for this one.
0:17.6	This week we've got an awesome guest for you.
0:19.5	His name's Greg Novikas.
0:20.5	He's a combat controller getting to the end of his story career. He's worked at every single level
0:24.6	to include working at the highest levels over at the AFSOC GSU. He's worked at a bunch of the two
0:29.8	series units. He's got a lifetime of experience and we actually deployed together. So obviously,
0:35.2	you know, when you deploy with a guy that can save your life
0:37.5	via accurate fires and controlling the airspace, of course you love that dude. Vic is an awesome guy.
0:42.2	He's got a whole lot of stuff to include his current position. He's really focusing on how is it
0:47.5	that we actually change holistically Air Force training to get you ready for the pipeline, starting
0:52.3	at BMT and even left of that in the development
0:55.0	programs and all kinds of stuff. So he's got a lot of good input. This was a great one with our
0:58.8	friend Vic, Combat Controller, moving on to do great stuff to revolutionize the way that we get
1:03.5	you guys ready for these aspect or career fields. And if you're not ready right now, I urge you,
1:07.9	go over to modern athlete strength systems.com and check out their full suite of
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