Ep 588: Death by a Thousand Clicks: Why the Air Force Is Burning Out Its Best People

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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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Trent are back in the team room—and this one turns into a brutally honest breakdown of why morale across the military keeps getting crushed by admin creep, broken systems, and leadership’s obsession with data collection over mission execution. The boys react to a viral “Death by a Thousand Clicks” memo allegedly written by a frustrated commander explaining how endless CBTs, duplicate databases, broken computer systems, mandatory trackers, and pointless compliance ...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	One's ready.
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	Go!
0:04.0	Your drive is no longer motivation.
0:07.0	Why do you guys run?
0:11.0	Why do you go work out?
0:13.0	Is it because of motivational video?
0:15.0	What is it?
0:16.0	It's purpose, right?
0:18.0	That others may live.
0:20.0	And I need you guys understand that right drive is
0:23.6	your ability to keep going when you don't want to keep going
0:26.6	go
0:27.6	let me just make that your default.
0:55.0	Does everybody understand sir three
0:57.0	one
1:01.0	two three
1:02.0	two
1:03.0	three
1:04.0	three
1:05.0	hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast
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