Ep 527: Zero Plan, Maximum Impact: Peaches & Trent Break Down the Best OTS Yet

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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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Trent are back in the team room—no script, no filter, and somehow their best Operator Training Summit yet. Coming straight off the Nashville event, they pull the curtain back on what really happens when 40 candidates, a handful of coaches, and a mountain of gear collide in one turf-covered facility. Peaches dishes on how sleeping indoors, training for 11 hours in the pool, and running the dreaded 10-ups turned chaos into confidence. Trent talks logistics, lessons ...

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0:00.0	If we just decide to go hard, full cadre mode,
0:02.7	I'm telling you, like, selection course, day one, intro to the pool,
0:07.0	the number of times you don't even get into the water on your intro to pool day is a lot.
0:12.8	We set up all this equipment.
0:14.1	We're not even going to get in the pool.
0:15.9	You can put the fins on your feet.
0:17.6	You're going to do a lot of flutter cakes.
0:18.7	We'll flood your mask.
0:19.6	Like, you'll feel water.
0:20.8	One's ready. the fins on your feet, you're going to do a lot of flutter cakes. We'll flood your mask. Like, you'll feel water.
0:21.6	One's ready.
0:22.6	Go!
0:24.7	Go!
0:30.3	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:32.8	It's an attributes-based selection model.
0:33.5	What does that mean?
0:36.4	Guys, aren't we running right now if you get fed around practicing, honey?
0:37.7	Practicing.
0:38.1	Right?
0:38.9	I can't.
0:39.5	Freaking.
0:43.9	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
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