USSOCOM Senior Enlisted Leader Command CMSgt Gregory A. Smith
Ones Ready
Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Ones Ready podcast we sit down with the United States Special Operations Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Chief Greg Smith. Chief Smith has had a colorful career and has gone from a Weapons Loader on A-10s to an AC-130 Gunner, to the Special Operations Command Europe Senior Enlisted to Air Force Special Operations Command Senior Enlisted, to Special Operations Command. Chief Smith covers SOF accountability, Transregional Crossdomain Detterance, and the future of SOCOM. We also tap on some of the initiatives they're working up there and their new endeavor into podcasting from a Command level. We promise you don't want to skip through any of this episode! Please enjoy the episode and give us your feedback. If you liked it and feel so inclined, please leave us a review. If we didn’t answer your questions, please let us know, and thank you for your support!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The One's Ready Podcast, a team of Air Force Special Operators forged |
| 0:07.6 | in combat with over 70 years of combined operational experience, as well as a decade of selection |
| 0:13.0 | instructor experience. |
| 0:14.5 | If you're tired of settling and you want to do something you truly believe in, you're |
| 0:18.2 | in the right place. |
| 0:19.2 | Now, here's your favorite CCTV personality, JTAC extraordinaire, and Bracer of the ridiculous |
| 0:24.4 | face, unlike the shortest operator you'll ever meet, peaches. |
| 0:29.2 | Hey everybody, welcome back to The One's Ready Podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | We're happy to have you. |
| 0:32.6 | We have a very special guest today, so we're going to get right into it. |
| 0:35.6 | We have the Special Operations Command, Command Senior and Listed Leader, Chief Greg Smith. |
| 0:42.3 | Now, I guess I, we're going to go right into this, so I wanted to hit your background |
| 0:47.8 | a little bit, because you have obviously quite impressive background, and you wouldn't |
| 0:52.2 | be the so-com CSEL if you didn't have an impressive background, but you actually started |
| 0:56.9 | off as kind of a weapons loader, then you went to an AC-130 gunner, then you, I know you |
| 1:03.0 | hit a whole bunch on the way, so I'm definitely summarizing, but then you went to be the SOC |
| 1:07.6 | your command chief, then the AFSOC command chief, and now you are the so-com CSEL. |
| 1:14.0 | Can you give us a little background on not only your personal life and how you got to |
| 1:19.0 | be where you are, but throughout your career as well, Chief? |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah, thanks, peaches. |
| 1:23.4 | Again, always good to see you, my friend. |
| 1:26.0 | So growing up in Detroit Michigan, son of a Detroit cop, you know, in the late 80s, Detroit |
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