Ep 525: The Zulu Course Is a Dumpster Fire (Or Maybe Not?)

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

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Everyone online says the new Special Warfare “Zulu Course” is trash—so Peaches and Trent decided to light it up. This isn’t a soft take or sanitized military PR moment. It’s two retired operators roasting the chaos, the memes, and the ridiculous leadership gag orders that make no sense. Peaches calls out the “change fatigue” across the DOD, breaks down why the Zulu rollout will be rough, and drops truth bombs about command cluelessness, budget black holes, and the myth of the...

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0:00.0	say anything.
0:01.5	I'd have to believe that Cohn, Aaron, Love would be the ringleader, you know,
0:06.8	throwing the Molotov cocktails at the, at the headquarters building, some speak.
0:10.2	It's a company, man.
0:11.1	And now, yeah, he's a company man.
0:12.7	He's a Bob.
0:14.5	He's a they.
0:16.4	Special warfare training wings basically to hire him as, you know, to promote their positive messages
0:22.9	and that kind of stuff.
0:24.1	One's ready.
0:25.2	One's ready.
0:26.2	Go!
0:31.0	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:33.8	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:36.2	What does that mean?
0:37.2	Guys, are we running right now and get fair? We're practicing, Robbie.
0:40.3	Practicing. Right? I can't freaking...
0:44.3	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:47.3	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:51.3	And everything is for a reason.
0:53.3	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise
0:58.0	has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
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