Ep 556: AFSW Attribute - Problem Solving

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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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This episode closes out the Attributes Series with the one that ties everything together: problem solving. Aaron and Peaches break down what instructors are actually evaluating when they give you impossible tasks, incomplete information, and artificial stress. You’re not expected to find perfect answers—you’re expected to make a decision, communicate it, accept risk, and move. From paralysis by analysis to five-breath resets, triage thinking, and real-world examples from comb...

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0:00.0	If you have an algorithm, if you have something that you've trained and it's a reflex,
0:04.0	you take your five deep breaths, you look at the scenario, you engage, you make a decision, and you go.
0:09.1	You are going to be far ahead of your peers.
0:10.9	One's ready.
0:14.1	Go!
0:17.7	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:20.4	It's an attributes-based selection model.
0:22.8	What does that mean?
0:23.7	Guys, aren't we running right now to get thinner.
0:25.6	We're practicing running.
0:27.1	Practicing.
0:27.9	Right?
0:28.2	I can't.
0:29.2	Freaking.
0:31.5	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:34.4	The instructors are giving you input, and we're expecting an output and everything
0:39.4	is for a reason. If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single
0:43.8	exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do. We don't want people at
0:52.2	endoc special warfare assessment selection, whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road. We don't want people at Indoc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,
0:54.5	whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
0:58.6	I don't care what they call it.
1:00.4	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
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