Ep 528: If You Lose Your Gear, You Deserve It – How To Mark Your Gear

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

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Let’s be honest—if you roll up to a Special Warfare event with unmarked gear, you’ve already told the cadre who’s quitting first. In this episode, Peaches rips through the basics every wannabe operator somehow ignores: how to mark your fins, booties, and mask so your stuff doesn’t vanish in the pool—or get jacked by the guy next to you. No fluff, no editing magic, just Peaches fumbling through real-world prep like a pro who’s done it too many times to care. He calls out lazy ...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	One's ready.
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:09.0	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:11.0	What does that mean?
0:13.0	Guys, aren't we running right now to get thinner?
0:15.0	We're practicing, Robbie.
0:16.0	Practicing.
0:17.0	Right?
0:18.0	I can't freaking...
0:20.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:22.6	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:26.6	And everything is for a reason.
0:29.6	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do,
0:32.6	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
0:43.3	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.
0:47.3	I don't care what they call it.
0:49.3	What I need is you're to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
0:55.8	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.9	I can drive a key slur just like this.
1:01.8	All the way to the HECC and never quit.
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