Ep 553: Air Force BMT Is Finally Changing

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

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Trent break down what’s actually changing in Air Force Basic Military Training 3.0—and why most of the outrage is missing the point. From mock airfields, F-16s, and C-130s to Pacer Forge becoming a true crucible, this episode explains why BMT isn’t about technical mastery—it’s about mindset, teamwork, and connecting Airmen to the mission early. They tackle scale, cost, culture, and why “we never did this before” is the weakest argument in the comments. Less classr...

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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, 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,
0:32.6	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
0:43.3	We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection, 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.
0:55.9	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.9	I can run a key slur just like this.
1:01.8	All the way to the HECD you never quit.
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