Ep 523: Entitled, Soft, and Not Ready: Aaron Nukes the Zulu Course Crybabies

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

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Aaron’s done playing nice. In this scorched-earth solo rant, the Ones Ready silverback goes full throttle on cones, meme-lords, and anyone dumb enough to trash the new Zulu Course before it even starts. Peaches and Trent are off the mic, which means there’s no filter—just pure truth bombs, sarcasm, and veteran rage. Aaron breaks down why the Zulu Course is actually the biggest step forward for Air Force Special Warfare training—and why today’s wannabes are embarrassing themse...

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0:00.0	When the seals leave you on a mountain alone to die, you're going to need to learn how to fix your own problems.
0:04.5	For the pararescu men, holy crap, you're actually going to start doing medicine. Communicate, Medicaid, extricate. Para rescue in five simple steps. Shoot move, communicate. Medicaid, extricate. Right away, you get to get started with medicine. and your combat controller and TACP and SR brothers
0:22.3	get to learn that T-T-T-T-T-C right next to you. We get to crossload that life-saving skill of T-T-T-T-T-T-T. You get to see who's good,
0:31.7	who's weak, who's doing well, and you all get to learn this together.
0:34.9	One's ready.
0:35.7	One's ready.
0:38.8	Go!
0:44.4	So you guys are going into special warfare assessment selection.
0:46.9	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:47.7	What does that mean?
0:50.6	Guys, aren't we running right now to get better than we're practicing running?
0:51.8	Practicing.
0:52.3	Right?
0:53.1	I can't.
0:53.7	Freaking. So there's a? I can't. Freaking.
0:55.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:58.0	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
1:02.0	And everything is for a reason.
1:04.0	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do,
1:07.0	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
1:14.6	We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare assessment selection, whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
1:22.6	I don't care what they call it. What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I
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