Ep 512: Air Force Special Warfare Pipeline: Training, Selection, and How Not to Fail

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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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Aaron takes the mic solo and unloads on pipeline myths, training excuses, and bad packet habits. Forget the rumor mill—he explains why the Air Force keeps tweaking Special Warfare selection, why “pipeline optimization” isn’t a conspiracy, and why faster runners are always the ones who graduate. He drags combat controllers over pistol skills, laughs about swim cap questions, and gives the blunt truth: stop wasting time and train specifically for what actually matters. It’s sna...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	All right!
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:09.0	It is an attributes-based selection model. What does that mean?
0:13.0	Guys, are we running right now to get better than we're practicing running?
0:16.0	Practicing.
0:17.0	Right? I can't.
0:19.0	Freaking.
0:20.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:23.6	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:27.6	And everything is for a reason.
0:29.6	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet,
0:31.6	everything that we do, every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do. We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,
0:43.3	whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
0:47.3	I don't care what they call it.
0:49.3	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
0:55.8	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.9	I can run a keystone just like this.
1:01.8	All the way to the ATC you never quit.
1:04.8	All the way to ACC you never quit.
1:08.0	Yeah, as Weezy F baby said, let the beat run. I'm going back in. So welcome back to everybody.
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