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Ones Ready

Ep 563: The Air Force Told Her “You Can’t”

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail SMSgt Kristin “KP” Parks didn’t join the Air Force to be average. She joined to jump out of airplanes, solve impossible problems, and quietly build the backbone of Air Force Special Warfare. From packing chutes on KC-135s to becoming the first female one-papa freefall jumpmaster, KP spent 27 years proving that mission support isn’t “support” — it’s survival. She helped build Combat Mission Support from scratch, shaped SWMS, ran joint logistics in live theaters, and was the ki...

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0:00.0

One's ready?

0:01.0

Point a circuit!

0:03.0

Go!

0:04.0

Yeah, I wasn't born to be average.

0:09.0

I was born to be extraordinary, so I gotta pull the trigger, doing everything that's necessary.

0:14.0

Sometimes it gets scary, and sometimes it get lonely, but I still gotta push through.

0:19.0

I gotta craft and I will hone it.

0:20.0

And all the damn one I own me, but I'm not there blade. I'm an independent powerhouse, and I will stare him in the face. If I take what it's mine, they start to think I'm insane, they look at me like I'm crazy, but I don't care of any way. I'm just really doing what I got to do, and I got no plan to quit, so I just gotta keep rocking. And you know that's what it is.

0:39.3

Every shot that I do not take, I am guaranteed to miss.

0:42.3

So I better grab that rifle and start lining up the hits. What's up, everybody? We're going to hop right into this one. It is a fantastic episode with Christed KP Parks, one of the best combat mission support. It's called Swims Now, Special Warfare Mission Support personnel I've ever met in my entire life. She's just one of those people that just fix his problems. We talk about multi-capable airmen and all these other things. KP started off her life just in regular old aircrew flight equipment.

1:31.1

She was working on other planes and packing shoots, and that just wasn't enough for her.

1:35.2

Her story is ridiculous.

1:36.6

We're going to say it, she was the first female one Papa jump master in the Air Force.

1:40.9

She has a crazy career at a bunch of tier one units.

1:43.6

She's just absolutely fantastic. She's a crazy career at a bunch of tier one units. She's just absolutely

1:44.8

fantastic. She's still doing good work 27 years in. Tren, that podcast was great. I don't know.

1:51.9

I mean, she's like a bunch of the dudes that we talk to. She's like, well, you know, we made a lot of

1:57.6

these things happen and we kind of worked on this. It's like, no, KP, you you were the driving force behind a ton of this change because of who you are and, you know, just being unwilling to not make things better, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So fantastic. Great episode with KP. If you guys are looking for the absolute best stuff, go over to our One's Ready page. You go down to a Tacklead. If you're looking for anything to train yourself, maybe you're getting ready to go to an operator training summit and you need gear that you're going to train with from the people that have actually graduated on it and weren't just like, you know, students their entire career from people that were actually instructors. And actually never went through a pipeline. Just throwing out in there. I feel like I need to say that a lot now. Yeah, well, we decided to delete you from all upcoming OTSs to protect the brand.

2:37.1

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