Ep 551: Visual Friendlies Tally Target Vol 2 with TACP Ethan Brown

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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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Author and former TACP Ethan Brown returns to break down Visual Friendlies, Tally Target Volume Two and the work behind documenting the post-9/11 wars the right way. This isn’t a highlight reel of gunfights—it’s a deep look at JTACs as humans, coalition partners, policy failures, surges, forever wars, and the weight carried by the quiet professionals who enabled everything from combat to humanitarian missions. Ethan explains why Volume Two goes beyond tactics, why Volume Thre...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	All right!
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.
0:12.0	What does that mean?
0:13.0	Guys, are we running right now to get better?
0:15.0	We're practicing, Robbie.
0:16.0	Practicing.
0:17.0	Right?
0:18.0	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,
0:31.6	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.
0:55.8	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.9	I can run a Key Slur just like this.
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