Ep 518: We F’d Up the A-10? Jarred Taylor & CMSgt Spreter Talk The Future of TACP

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

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Buckle up — Peaches sits down with Black Rifle Coffee’s Jared Taylor and AFSW’s Chief Jimbo Spreeder to torch the nonsense strangling the Air Force from the inside out. From the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of the A-10, to the badge redesign drama, to the Tech P force reduction nobody understood, this episode pulls zero punches. Peaches calls out leadership confusion (“Wait, you didn’t know what TacPs do?!”), while JT and Jimbo laugh their way through the bureaucratic chaos that ...

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0:00.0	TechPs were so quiet that we had senior leaders in our own service that weren't totally clear on what we do.
0:05.2	And to the point that we were in a meeting and it was one of the videos that were like, man, if we'd have known all this stuff, like, I don't know if you guys would have got cut.
0:13.7	One's ready.
0:14.9	Go!
0:17.1	Go!
0:20.9	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the ones ready podcast.
0:23.3	You're in the team room.
0:25.0	Before we hop into this next episode with Jared Taylor from Black Rifle Coffee and Time
0:30.0	for Pie and the TACP career field functional manager, chief Jimbo Spreter, love for you guys
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