Ep 546: Special Operations In Venezuela—This Wasn’t a War—It Was a Snatch

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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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Trent break down the overnight U.S. operation in Venezuela that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife—without calling it what the internet wants it to be. This wasn’t a declaration of war. It wasn’t large-scale combat operations. It was a surgical joint mission executed by Special Operations with air, naval, intelligence, and law-enforcement support. They unpack why Congress approval isn’t required, why “invasion” is the wrong word, what assets were likely involved...

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0:00.0	Yes, what a hell of an operation.
0:01.9	What's crazy to me, though, is how many people are saying these two things is how dare you go in there and conduct war without getting approval from Congress, which newsflash, this is not war.
0:19.1	We went in, we got them, and we got them back.
0:21.7	One's ready.
0:22.7	Go!
0:24.9	Go!
0:28.5	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:31.2	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:33.6	What does that mean?
0:34.5	Guys, aren't we running right now to get thinner.
0:36.4	We're practicing running.
0:38.3	Practicing. Right? I can't.
0:39.3	Freaking.
0:40.3	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:44.3	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output and everything is for a reason.
0:51.3	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do,
0:54.3	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
1:01.5	We don't want people at in-doc special warfare assessment selection, whatever they're
1:06.0	going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road. I don't
1:09.8	care what they call it.
1:16.4	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
1:20.0	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
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