Ep 544: Why Trainable Beats Talented Every Time

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

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches is joined by Kris Tomes for a deep dive into what actually makes candidates successful at selection—and why trainability beats talent every time. Fresh off the Las Vegas Operator Training Summit, they break down what they’re seeing over and over: guys showing up with ego, bad habits, and internet knowledge instead of solid fundamentals. From water confidence and underwaters to running mechanics, mobility, rucking, and stress management, this episode explains why OTS i...

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0:00.0	Would you rather have someone who's done it right for 500 hours or someone's wrong for 10,000 hours?
0:05.7	Any day of the week, we take the 500 because we can mold them.
0:08.7	One's ready.
0:09.8	Go!
0:12.1	Go!
0:15.5	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection is an attributes-based selection model.
0:20.6	What does that mean?
0:21.6	Guys, are we running right now to get federal practicing, honey? Practicing. Right? I can't.
0:27.0	Freaking. So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for. The instructors are giving you
0:33.5	input and we're expecting an output. And everything is for a reason.
0:38.3	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise
0:42.3	has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
0:48.3	We don't want people at in-doc, special warfare assessment selection, whatever they're going gonna call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
0:56.7	I don't care what they call it.
0:58.3	What I need is you to show me the raw materials
1:01.6	for the things that I wanna build you into.
1:04.8	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
1:07.7	I can run a key slur just like this.
1:10.7	All the way to ATC you never quit.
1:13.6	All the way to ATC you never quit.
1:16.6	Hey everybody, welcome back to the One's Ready podcast.
1:18.6	You're in the team room.
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