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Ones Ready

Ep 591: The Pipeline Doesn’t Care About Your Excuses

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

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Trent goes solo for a brutally honest talk about Air Force Basic Military Training changes, Special Warfare expectations, and the dangerous mindset that causes people to quit before they’ve even truly started. After spending more time around BMT and the Special Warfare training environment, Trent breaks down recent changes to Special Warfare flights, why trainees are stressing over losing dedicated pool time, and why most people are focusing on the wrong problem entirel...

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0:00.0

One's ready?

0:01.0

One's ready.

0:02.0

Go!

0:03.0

Something's got to die. We have to change what we're doing to become something greater. If you want the same results, keep doing the same thing, but that's not why you're here. here.

0:19.0

Thank you. why you're here. It's out there.

0:23.6

I almost step off at like an ankle. The President Hey, everybody, welcome back to the ones ready podcast for all of my audio people out there.

1:10.1

It's just Trent today.

1:11.3

Another Trent solo episode that I know you all are just absolutely begging for.

1:16.1

Again, if you're only on audio or if you're new, my first language is sarcasm.

1:20.2

So it's kind of a weird thing, jumping on here and talking to all y'all, and I try not to think about it.

1:25.1

But I do want to talk about today is some BMT stuff,

1:29.3

some Air Force basic military training stuff, some updates. Or if you're not tracking, I do,

1:35.2

I work for a company, a contract now in the training environment. And I spend a lot of my days

1:40.6

down at the Air Force basic training area. And a few things have happened and I've made some observations recently.

1:47.5

And I want to talk to the folks thinking about getting into special warfare or the folks

1:51.8

about the ship about some of the stuff that I've seen out there and some of the updates,

1:55.1

things that are happening, some of the stuff you've probably heard about and then giving you,

1:59.4

you know, a little bit of advice from where I sit on, on what it means and what you should do about it.

2:05.3

The first thing I noticed, and this is not anything new for any of y'all, we've talked about

2:08.7

this before, but hanging out with MTIs and watching multiple flights come through and listening

2:16.0

to the way that they talk about their

2:17.5

flights. There is no group of trainees that they point out more often than the folks that are

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