Ep 548: Everyone Isn’t Stupid (Zulu Course)—You’re Just Arguing Like an Ass

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

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This episode is a masterclass in why bad arguments rot organizations from the inside. Aaron, Trent, and Peaches dig into the Special Warfare pipeline drama, the Zulu course outrage, and the lazy take that “students won’t retain anything.” Here’s the problem: that argument only works if students are stupid, instructors are stupid, or leadership is stupid—and none of those are true. They break down logistics, attrition, training progression, risk tolerance, and why waiting for ...

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0:00.0	I think we should start a feud with the Valhalla VFT. Okay. A, because the name is retarded. He thinks he's a Viking. Yeah. And also, he thinks he's a J-TAC. Hilarious. That you're the worst. One's ready. All right. Go! So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection. It is an attributes-based selection model. What does that mean?
0:23.6	Guys, are we running right now to get better?
0:25.6	We're practicing running.
0:26.6	Practicing.
0:27.6	Right? I can't.
0:29.6	Freaking.
0:30.6	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:33.6	The instructors are giving you input, and we're expecting an output and everything is for a
0:39.9	reason. If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise
0:44.4	has a connection to the job that you're trying to do. We don't want people at endoc special warfare
0:53.5	assessment selection, whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
0:58.0	I don't care what they call it.
1:00.0	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
1:06.0	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
1:09.0	I can run the keyesler just like this.
1:12.7	All the way to hate you see you never quit.
1:15.6	All the way to ACC, you never quit.
1:18.5	Are you going to do it?
1:19.4	You want me to do it?
1:20.0	Hello, everybody.
1:20.5	Except for command chiefs that look at kitty porn.
1:23.1	It's good to see you all.
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