Ep 552: AFSW Attribute - Communication

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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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This episode breaks down one of the most overlooked attributes in Air Force Special Warfare: communication. Aaron explains why communication isn’t volume or confidence theater—it’s message quality, delivery, and active listening, especially when things are chaotic. From JTAC briefs and patient handovers to team problem-solving under fatigue, this is a practical guide to communicating clearly when it actually matters. If you think you’ll “figure it out” at selection, you’re wr...

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0:00.0	Communication is always something that gets brought up in every single debrief. Every time that you go through a debrief, somebody somewhere is going to say, well, communication could have been better. And more importantly, how can you build it? How can you practice your communication so that you're stepping into A&S ready to go? You're not magically going to turn into some new person the day that you set foot onto the Chapman
0:20.9	Training Annex down in St. Antonio. You have to start beforehand. Your prep should include
0:25.6	all of these attributes. One's ready. Go! So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment
0:35.7	Selection. It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:38.3	What does that mean?
0:39.3	Guys, I'm running right now to get further and practicing, Robbie.
0:42.3	Practicing.
0:43.3	Right? I can't.
0:45.3	Freaking.
0:46.3	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:50.3	The instructors are giving you input, and we're expecting an output. And everything is for a reason.
0:56.0	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise
1:00.0	has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
1:04.0	We don't want people at in-doc, special warfare assessment selection,
1:10.0	whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
1:14.6	I don't care what they call it.
1:16.6	What I need is you're to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
1:22.6	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
1:25.6	I can run the key spoon just like this.
1:28.6	All the way to HECD you never quit.
1:31.5	All the way the ATC never quit.
1:34.3	Hey, everybody.
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