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PODCAST

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

A team of active duty Combat Control (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), and Special Reconnaissance (SR) leveraging our 69 years of special operations experience to make the next generation of operators smarter, faster and stronger than we ever were. We are the PREMIERE resource for all things Air Force Special Warfare. The Ones Ready Podcast is honest talk about what it is like to go from a know-nothing high school graduate to an elite Special Operator. We will cover important practices for success including

government self-improvement

All Episodes

14:57

Ops Brief 067: Daily Drop - 27 June 2025 (“Razin...

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2025/06/27

Send us a text The Pentagon dropped a $962B budget bomb, and Razin Caine dropped an actual bomb—well, more like 125 aircraft dropping GBU-57 bunker busters on Iranian nuclear sites. In this no-fluff Daily Drop, Jared unpacks the FY26 defense budget, the rise of the F-47, the death of the A-10, and why space is the new high ground (sorry, Wedgetail). He also calls out bureaucratic nonsense, praises enlisted studs like Tech Sgt. Montoya, and side-eyes yet another “brilliant” plan to split the A...

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Ep 485: Foreign Aid Is Not a Handout—It’s a Weapon

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2025/06/27

Send us a text Buckle up, warfighters—this one’s gonna rattle some cages. In this fire-breathing episode, Jared and Aaron torch the lazy talking points and break down why foreign aid isn’t just “giving away your tax dollars.” From crushing fentanyl pipelines before they cross U.S. borders to outmaneuvering China’s Belt and Road sleight of hand, this is your crash course in how global influence actually works. They pull no punches while explaining how smart international assistance builds part...

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Ops Brief 066: Daily Drop - 26 June 2025 (Squirrel...

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2025/06/26

Send us a text Welcome to your June 26th no-BS team room drop—brought to you by the Ones Ready squad and powered by caffeine, sarcasm, and tactical booties. Jared dives into the late-breaking chaos of June 25th like a B-2 on a midnight hammer run. From underground terror bunkers to squirrels declaring war on Minot AFB, this episode hits harder than hypersonics and keeps it unapologetically real. CENTCOM says terrorists are going subterranean, Iran’s still acting like the boss villain of globa...

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Ops Brief 065: Daily Drop - 24 June 2025 (Fat Shaming...

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2025/06/24

Send us a text Welcome back to The Daily Drop—where Jared rants, roasts, and breaks down the news like only the Ones Ready crew can. Today’s main event? Iran punches back with a missile strike on Al-Udeid, but 13 of 14 missiles get slapped out of the sky. Trump drops an F-bomb on the lawn. Space and Cyber Command flex behind the scenes. And everyone’s favorite stealth bat—the B-2—continues to steal headlines. Meanwhile, the Air Force wants airmen to run two miles... twice a year. Cue the Face...

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Ops Brief 064: Daily Drop - 23 June 2025 (Operation...

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2025/06/23

Send us a text Strap in, because this Daily Drop drops bombs—literally. Jared’s back from the San Diego Operator Training Summit and immediately diving into the nuclear circus known as Operation Midnight Hammer—the largest B-2 strike in U.S. history. We’re talking 125+ aircraft, deception ops worthy of Hollywood, and a casual flex on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But don’t worry, the Pentagon swears it’s not “regime change.” Also in this episode: CENTCOM’s tanker games, shady KC-135 logistics...

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Ep 484: From Thunderbirds Maintainer to Netflix Star...

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2025/06/23

Send us a text Let’s get one thing straight—this ain’t your typical Air Force hype-fest. Xavier Knapp went from "please God, not F-16s" to becoming the standout maintainer in Netflix’s Thunderbirds documentary. In this episode, we pull the curtain all the way back on what it really means to be a top-tier wrench-turner in the Air Force. Xavier shares the unfiltered truth about failing out of EOD, getting slapped in the face (literally) by maintenance, and grinding through 120° days and freezin...

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Ep 483: Trent’s Origin Story: How Pain and Pressure...

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2025/06/20

Send us a text This isn’t just an episode — it’s a character arc. For the first time, Trent pulls back the curtain on how his life before the pipeline forged the fire he brings to every candidate now. From getting his teeth kicked in (literally) during his early military career, to surviving brutal operational deployments, to losing everything that mattered and rebuilding from scratch — this is his blueprint. It’s not a sob story. It’s a leadership autopsy. And it's why he's allergic to your ...

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Ep 482: Live Q&A with AFSW Recruiter!

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2025/06/19

Send us a text What happens when a guy born in Mexico, raised in Montana, gets denied reentry into the Air Force for nearly six years—and comes back swinging as Puerto Rico’s first full-time AFSW recruiter? You get this episode. Peaches sits down with a recruiter who has seen every side of the Air Force: enlisted mechanic, disgruntled civilian, determined returnee, and now the face of Special Warfare recruiting across Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. This live Q&A is raw, real, and pac...

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Ops Brief 063: Daily Drop - 17 June 2025 ($300 for...

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2025/06/17

Send us a text The Pentagon’s busy doing backflips to avoid picking a side in the Israel-Iran slugfest, while the U.S. military quietly scrambles tankers, evacuates families, and acts like $300 is enough to survive Naples, Italy. Meanwhile, Air Force tankers take center stage, hypersonic weapons get a reboot (because we’re behind... again), and Space Force finally gets a toy that isn’t just PowerPoint. Plus: AI flight scheduling, Normandy’s long-overdue tribute, the F-35’s never-ending upgrad...

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Ops Brief 062: Daily Drop - 16 June 2025 (Drones &...

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2025/06/16

Send us a text The Pentagon is getting Spiderwebbed, CENTCOM’s begging for a faster arms dealer, and Iran claims it bagged three F-35s (with CGI receipts, naturally). In this no-holds-barred Daily Drop, Jared rips through the absurdity of base security theater, why our military sales process might as well be faxed from 1996, and why trusting SpaceX while threatening to cancel their contracts is peak DoD dysfunction. Also—Space Force can’t track satellites if you build a Starbucks next to the...

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Ep 481: Manda Bay - The Attack Nobody Was Ready For

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2025/06/16

Send us a text Ones Ready goes scorched earth on the Manda Bay attack—a tragic cocktail of leadership failure, intelligence gaps, and straight-up tactical laziness that left Americans dead and a base in flames. This isn’t just a “bad day at work” story—this is what happens when we let comfort, complacency, and half-baked threat assessments set the tempo. In this episode, we dissect the 2020 al-Shabaab attack on Manda Bay, Kenya, and the damning DoD report that followed. From unmanned gates t...

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Ops Brief 061: Daily Drop - 13 June 2025 (We...

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2025/06/13

Send us a text The Ones Ready crew is back with your daily drop, and today’s episode is hotter than the LRSO’s payload. Jared breaks down the latest in defense news with a healthy dose of sarcasm, fury, and common sense—none of which were found in the FY26 budget. From the Navy’s sixth-gen fighter dreams to Putin’s never-ending land grab, the episode covers it all. We’re talking U.S. evacuation plans in Bahrain, AFRICOM vs EUCOM turf wars, drone warfare budget gymnastics, and why building a m...

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Ep 480: USAF Basic Military Training - AFSW Advisor...

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2025/06/13

Send us a text What do you get when you mix scarlet berets, dive school lies, and a belt company that quietly shames your Amazon nylon webbing? You get this week’s Ones Ready episode featuring the legendary Greg “Vic” Novickas—a battle-hardened Combat Controller who’s operated at every level of AFSOC and is now rewriting how we prepare the next generation of warfighters. Vic takes us through his journey from broke in Key West to tactically melting faces across the globe. From diving with infl...

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Ops Brief 060: Daily Drop - 12 June 2025 (Budget Cuts...

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2025/06/12

Send us a text Welcome to your daily dose of blunt-force intel. On this episode of Ones Ready, Peaches breaks down the 12 June Ops Brief with the same energy as a pissed-off NCO finding unbloused boots. From nuclear microreactors to E-7 program death rattles, and shady F-35 budget slashings, this rundown covers everything the Pentagon tried to slip under the radar. Oh, and did we mention Air Force One is getting a facelift from Qatar... and no one will say what it costs? This one’s for the op...

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Ops Brief 059: Daily Drop - 10 June 2025 (Relaxation...

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2025/06/10

Send us a text Buckle up. In this Daily Drop, Jared steamrolls through a Pentagon fever dream where California governors cry about sovereignty, the Air Force funds anxiety nap pods, and Russia’s Spiderweb drone strikes are the new nightmare fuel. Meanwhile, Trump deploys 2,000 National Guard troops to L.A., the Air Force downs another billion on wingman drones, and Space Force is somehow both broke and booming. The DoD can’t acquire software on time, the Air Force is buying nap boxes instead ...

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Ops Brief 058: Daily Drop - 9 June 2025 (Aliens,...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text In today’s Daily Drop, Jared’s back to walk you through a spicy buffet of government overreach, UFO shenanigans, and military budget cosplay. NORCOM’s moving troops into L.A., Newsom’s throwing a federal tantrum, and the Pentagon is apparently deleting Signal messages like they’re hiding UFOs—because, spoiler alert: they kind of are. We’ve got dive-deep takes on the Air Force’s nuclear glow-up, Space Force’s identity crisis (again), and why the B-1B is still the king of air-dro...

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Ep 479: STOP asking these DUMB Air Force Special...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text Strap in, nerds — it's time for another brutally honest, occasionally aggressive PSA from your favorite cynical pipehitters. Aaron, Jared, and Trent are done pretending like your DMs are cute. This episode is a tactical nuke on all the dumbass questions that keep clogging our inboxes like an MRE-induced constipation crisis. Are you 25 and feeling “too old”? Shut up. Asking if you should delay shipping because your runtime is 0.3 seconds off? Delay your dreams forever, why not. ...

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Ops Brief 057: Daily Drop - 6 June 2025 (Billion...

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2025/06/06

Send us a text The Daily Drop is here and this one is overflowing with fraud, firepower, and the federal fumble reel. Jared dives into the Pentagon’s latest week of insanity: $10.8B in fraud? Check. Hypersonic missiles making a comeback? Check. A free Qatari plane that’s somehow costing $400M to modify? Check. And that’s before we even get to the Air Force’s new anti-ship missile flex, transgender cadet policy chaos, and the absurd SpaceX-White House pissing match. Oh yeah—Space Force nostalg...

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Ep 478: Who the F* is Peaches?!

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2025/06/06

Send us a text Strap in, nerds. This episode is Peaches, raw and unfiltered—no Aaron, no Trent, no buffer. Just one man, one mic, and 46 minutes of Combat Controller origin story, featuring: childhood trauma via Lethal Weapon, a trifold pamphlet that somehow convinced him to join the Air Force, and a fratricide incident that definitely wasn’t in the recruiting video. If you've ever wondered how a 5’4” kid with a soccer background, a VHS tape, and a chip on his shoulder turned into a JTAC lege...

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Ops Brief 056: Daily Drop - 5 June 2025...

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2025/06/05

Send us a text It’s another beautifully chaotic episode of the Ones Ready Daily Drop, and today we’re launching straight into the bureaucratic bonfire. Jared's back with updates so wild you’d think the Pentagon was drunk texting Congress. From billion-dollar GPS launches to PFAS exposure going prime time, we’re diving headfirst into drone dread, six-gen fighter delays, Space Force spending black holes, and the VA disability floodgates cracking wide open. Also: A WWII hero finally gets his due...

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