Ep 515: Air Force EOD Event Canceled Over Optics: Leadership Failure or Risk Aversion?

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

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches is flying solo and absolutely torching weak leadership in this unfiltered rant from the Ones Ready team room. The story? A Monster Mash at Little Rock AFB was shut down at the last second—after 50 candidates paid their own way—because someone got scared of “bad optics” during a government shutdown. Spoiler: nobody died, but the leadership’s spine sure did. Peaches tears into risk-averse commanders, lazy optics-warriors, and anyone who hides behind policy instead of ta...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.4	Hey everybody.
0:08.2	Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast.
0:10.0	You're in the team room with me this evening.
0:12.4	It is just me.
0:14.0	This is not an ad read.
0:15.6	But we'll get to those, I'm sure, because that's what we do.
0:18.1	And that's how we pay for the internet and keep the lights on
0:20.9	and buy cameras and microphones and all that kind of good stuff but um kind of it's weird so i
0:28.8	i got told the story today that i would like to talk to you about and i think that there's some
0:34.9	lessons learned in this that, and it also
0:38.1	kind of proves some of the things that Aaron Trent and I have been saying throughout the years
0:43.5	and things that you've heard from senior leaders, whether it's General Minnehan, General Deptula,
0:50.6	Chief Mass. Chief Mass. Heart of the Air Force, Joanne Bass. Chief Mass. Or, yeah, Chief Massart of the Air Force, Joy Ann Bass, and then CAC, CZ. So, like, and the theme is it, and let me give you the hook. That way you're in it. And I am going to do some reading so that I'd make sure that I get kind of all the points, correct?
1:11.2	Because it's wild.
1:12.3	But first, I've got to start with some empathy for these candidates.
1:17.6	So out in Little Rock, Air Force Base, I mean, these guys, they got burned by some weak-ass leadership.
1:27.7	Okay?
1:28.9	So that's what we're going to talk about.
1:32.4	We're going to talk about risk aversion and we're going to talk about leadership and not screwing over the next generation of people that are trying to come in.
1:37.1	And then I'll, you guys know me, so I'll probably jump around all over the place and lose
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