Ep 543: Recruiters Aren’t Lying—You Just Don’t Understand the Job

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

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches flies solo and tackles one of the laziest takes on the internet: “recruiters always lie.” Using UK Royal Navy ads, Air Force gyms, and real recruiter workloads, this episode breaks down why recruiting videos show the best version of the military—and why that’s not deception, it’s marketing. Peaches calls out bad-faith criticism, explains what recruiters actually juggle day to day, and reminds would-be candidates that patience, context, and ownership matter. If you thi...

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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? 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 sleut just like this.
1:01.8	All the way to the HECC you never quit.
1:04.8	All the way to ACC you never quit.
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