Ep 558: Top 10 Things You Should Be Doing Right Now to Survive the AFSW Pipeline

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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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This episode is the closest thing you’ll get to a no-BS preparation checklist for Air Force Special Warfare—delivered straight by Peaches and Trent. They lay out the top 10 things every candidate should be doing before shipping: fitness, water confidence, rucking, mindset, nutrition, recovery, ego control, recruiters, and avoiding the dumb mistakes that shut doors forever. No hype. No shortcuts. Just volume, discipline, and doing the boring things consistently. They also hit ...

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0:00.0	Training when you've had a bad day. When you say you're going to go out for a six-mile run,
0:04.0	and at mile three, you're like, dear, I just, I just can't. You have to push through it. You have to.
0:11.8	That is how you build mental toughness and resiliency before you go into pipeline.
0:17.5	One's ready.
0:20.6	Go! So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:26.6	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:29.6	What does that mean?
0:30.6	Guys, are we running right now to get thinner?
0:32.6	We're practicing running.
0:33.6	Practicing.
0:34.6	Right?
0:35.6	I can't.
0:36.6	Freaking. So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:40.3	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:44.3	And everything is for a reason.
0:46.3	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise
0:51.3	has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
0:55.0	We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,
1:01.0	whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
1:05.0	I don't care what they call it.
1:07.0	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
1:13.3	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
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