Ep 550: Leadership, Fitness, and Recruiting—Why Accuracy Still Matters

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

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This solo episode is part leadership talk, part reality check. Peaches opens with congratulations—and a warning—to newly selected Air Force Chiefs: the stripe isn’t a finish line, it’s a daily obligation. From there, he breaks down recent uniform and PT updates, why fitness standards exist beyond checklists, and how preparedness matters even in “non-combat” roles. The episode closes with a nuanced take on recruiting content—why dunking on recruiters misses the point, but accu...

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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, are 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.
0:19.0	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,
0:31.6	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
0:36.6	We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,
0:43.3	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. Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run. I can run a key slur just like this. All the way to HECD you never quit. All the way to NCC never quit. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the One Ready podcast. You're in the team room. You just got me today, but that's okay. I'm just cool. I got a little bit of time, right? I got a little bit of time. So I figured I'd hop on here and BS with you guys for a little bit before going to lunch, really, because I'm going to go have some Baja fish tacos because that's what I do.
1:28.9	Obviously I eat. I eat a lot. But you know why I can eat a lot? Because I use training
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