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Ones Ready

Ep 568: Why Most People Quit

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

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Trent pulls back the curtain on the Air Force Special Warfare pipeline and explains why so many candidates fail before they ever reach the real hard parts. After years as an instructor watching hundreds of candidates come through the system, the pattern becomes obvious: most guys don’t quit because the pipeline is too hard. They quit because they stacked too many stress problems on themselves before they ever showed up. Bad swim technique. Barely passing PT standards. Panic i...

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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 craft and I will hone it and all the damn

0:21.0

wanna own me but I'm not their blade I'm an independent powerhouse and I will stare him

0:25.7

in the face and I'll take what it's mine that start to think I'm insane to look at me like

0:30.4

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

0:35.7

so I just gotta keep rocking and you know that's what it is every shot that I do, and I got no plan to quit, so I just gotta keep rocking, and you know, that's what it is.

0:38.3

Every shot that I do not take, I am guaranteed to miss, so I better grab that rifle and start lining up the hits. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the ones ready podcast. It's Trent here on the first morning after the stupid time change. I think if there's anything that we can all agree on. It's that the switching back and forth from daylight savings to standard time, make up your mind. Everybody, like, it's been scientifically proven that this is, it doesn't do any good for us, you know,

1:33.2

and whatever the reasons were that they came up with it.

1:36.0

It's not what everybody needs.

1:38.7

And there's nothing that's stopping individuals or companies or whatever from setting new hours

1:43.6

and adjusting their schedules.

1:46.5

So I think we just need to decide on one.

1:48.7

You know, I like to talk a lot of good things about Texas.

1:51.8

I say really good things about Texas.

1:53.2

I like living here.

1:54.0

But the fact that we claim to be, you know, the independent, you know, the independent, you know,

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