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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

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All Episodes

61:14

Ep 593: Good Humans Make Great Leaders | Jody...

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2026/06/12

Send us Fan Mail Jody Fletcher is back on Ones Ready with Trent to talk about his new book, Good Humans Make Great Leaders. Jody is a retired Command Master Chief who spent most of his career in the reconnaissance and Marine Special Operations community as a Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman, or SARC. In this episode, Trent and Jody dig into what leadership actually means, why being a good person does not automatically make someone a good leader, and why so many organizations promote...

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49:15

***Sneak Peek***MBRS 90: From Dog-Sitter Narcs To An...

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2026/06/10

Send us Fan Mail Peaches goes scorched-earth on the latest Air Force drama: illegal home inspections, dog-sitter snitches, dumpster-level leadership decisions, and the glorious return of morale shirts. He calls out stupidity, hypocrisy, and anyone pretending the military isn’t a three-ring circus wrapped in OCPs. If you’re thin-skinned or currently writing a memo about sideburn length… this one’s going to hurt. Strap in, nerds — Peaches is saying what everyone else only screams into the group...

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Ep 592: Military Standards vs. Internet Idiots

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2026/06/08

Send us Fan Mail Aaron, Trent, and Peaches are back with one of those episodes that starts in one place and somehow ends up everywhere. The boys talk TRT comments, shadow bans, election weirdness, fake moral high ground, people arguing about standards online, D-Day and the weather call that helped make Operation Overlord happen, why “just doing your job” is a terrible argument against medals, HKIA, new Master Sergeants, good and bad leadership, AI being used poorly, and why some people should...

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27:59

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

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2026/06/05

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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59:01

***Sneak Peek***MBRS 89: So You’re ‘Good at PT’?...

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2026/06/03

Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Trent tag-team this one like two tired uncles sick of hearing fantasy-land nonsense from the comments section. From dudes bragging they’re “already good at PT” to the cosplay warriors demanding “tactics and shooting,” the boys dismantle every delusion with surgical pettiness. Peaches lays out what actual training looks like, Trent dives into the pipeline realities that crush egos, and together they roast the myth of the lone-wolf tough guy who “did it all himself....

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Ops Brief 161: Daily Drop - 1 June 2026 - The Army...

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2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back with the Daily Drop for 1 June 2026, and this one hits Army modernization, swift water rescue training, Navy port calls, carrier deployments, Pacific Partnership, Marine “special operations capable” clarification, Air Force T-38s returning to flight, F-35 additive manufacturing, Space Force graduates, Coast Guard cave rescues, and Pete Hegseth doing PT with the troops. The big theme: the military is moving, but the battlefield is changing fast. Long-range fire...

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58:11

Ep 590: Pete Hegseth, Fat Troops, and the Return of...

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2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail Aaron and Peaches are back in the team room for a public episode, and this one goes exactly where you think it’s going: military fitness standards, Pete Hegseth, the UFC, fat troops, fake plate outrage, human performance, AI, bad tactical training, Marines getting yelled at in public, and yes… somehow the Vandenberg UFO incident. They get into why physical standards still matter, why people are suddenly pretending government officials need to be elite athletes, how human perf...

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50:42

Ep 589: The Drone Revolution Is Here With Grant...

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2026/05/29

Send us Fan Mail Peaches, Trent, Aaron, and former F-16 Wild Weasel pilot Grant Bishop—better known as Grant “Slider” Bishop—sit down for one of the most important modern warfare conversations we’ve had yet. This episode dives deep into the future of drones, AI, ISR, runway intelligence, battlefield data fusion, and why the next war won’t be won by a single platform—it’ll be won by whoever processes information the fastest. Slider breaks down his background flying the General Dynamics F...

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Ops Brief 160: Daily Drop - 28 May 2026 - Marines...

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2026/05/28

Send us Fan Mail Peaches here with the no-BS daily drop. Something’s gotta die if you wanna level up—stop repeating weak shit. Army’s dumping real money into leader training and brutal exercises. Navy’s got five carrier groups owning the map. Marines and Coasties are out there smoking narcos, seizing fentanyl and coke by the ton. But Marines—explain the “special operations capable” tag on your MEU because it sounds like straight dork energy unless you’re a Raider. Love the logistics Marines s...

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43:32

***Sneak Peek***MBRS 88: The Toilet That Broke an...

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2026/05/27

Send us Fan Mail Trent rolls solo and unleashes a Thanksgiving beatdown on stupidity across the force. He opens with the legendary tale of an Airman who annihilated a toilet so violently his supervisor wanted to write paperwork for it. Trent torches the obsession with rank, the dependas who think stripes transfer by marriage, and the clowns trying to overthrow Haiti like it’s Walmart on Black Friday. He dives into culture clashes, NCO failures, marriage reality checks, and why the E1–E4 crowd...

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Ep 589: Memorial Day Isn’t About Being Sad. It’s...

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2026/05/25

Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Aaron sit down for a Memorial Day conversation that’s honest, reflective, hilarious, and painfully real all at the same time. The boys break down the actual meaning behind Memorial Day, the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and why the internet keeps turning remembrance into performative sadness instead of intentional celebration of the people we lost. They talk about friends killed in combat, training accidents, suicide, and the long list of...

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Ep 588: Death by a Thousand Clicks: Why the Air Force...

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2026/05/21

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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Ops Brief 159: Daily Drop - 20 May 2026 - USAF Bonus...

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2026/05/20

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back with the May 20 Daily Drop, and this one’s got everything: shrinking bonuses, carrier problems, Iranian escalation, NATO chaos, and the Pentagon throwing half a billion dollars at counter-drone tech. The United States Army keeps pushing force transformation while Europe braces for more U.S. troop withdrawals. Poland is openly stressing about losing American presence—and the billions that come with it. Meanwhile the United States Navy says the plumbing drama ab...

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Ops Brief 158: Daily Drop - 18 May 2026 - Bayonets...

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2026/05/18

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back for the May 18 Daily Drop, and this one goes everywhere—from bayonet charges and Indo-Pacific deterrence… to carrier deployments, combat rescue upgrades, shady investigations, and why artificial intelligence still can’t replace grit. The United States Army is bringing bayonet assaults back to Ranger School, the USS Gerald R. Ford returns from an 11-month combat deployment, the United States Marine Corps is rehearsing island seizures across the Philippines, and...

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Ep 587: PJ to A-10 Pilot… Then DUDE44 Happened

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2026/05/18

Send us Fan Mail Peaches, Trent, and Jason Attinger—aka AT—are back in the team room for one of the most legit combat rescue conversations we’ve ever had. AT didn’t just talk about rescue… he lived it. Former United States Air Force Pararescue operator. Commissioned officer. Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot. And now one of the guys helping preserve the Sandy mission when the military needs it most. This episode goes deep into DUDE44—what happened, how combat search and rescue actu...

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Ep 586: “Extreme Violence?”—Why Civilians Don’t Get War

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2026/05/15

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is solo in the team room—and this one turns into a full-on reality check. It starts simple: pre-recording for Nashville, OTS updates, life logistics. Then he rolls into a Pentagon clip that asks one of the dumbest questions imaginable—what does it feel like to order violence? That’s where it flips. Peaches breaks down the truth most people will never understand: war isn’t emotional, it isn’t personal, and it sure as hell isn’t about “feeling powerful.” It’s abou...

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Ops Brief 157: Daily Drop - 14 May 2026 - Navy Might...

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2026/05/14

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back for the May 14 Daily Drop—and today’s brief hits everything from tragedy in Morocco to artificial intelligence saving aircraft in live combat. The United States Army confirms recovery of both soldiers lost off the Moroccan coast, the United States Navy admits it could literally run out of operational money by July, and the United States Marine Corps is now forcing service-wide AI training. Then it gets wild—Air Force Special Operations Command says an AI...

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Ops Brief 156: Daily Drop - 13 May 2026 - Vegas...

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2026/05/13

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back for the May 13 Daily Drop—and this one starts personal. Before the military headlines, Peaches breaks down what happened right there in Las Vegas: two regular dudes stepped into chaos at a local grocery store, took on an armed shooter, protected families, and very likely saved lives. No uniforms. No backup. Just action when action mattered. Then the Ops Brief kicks off: the United States Army heads back to the southern border, Rangers bring bayonet train...

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16:52

Ops Brief 155: Daily Drop - 12 May 2026 - AI Is...

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2026/05/12

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back for the May 12 Daily Drop—moving fast because he’s got a meeting… but somehow still manages to cover missing soldiers, nuclear battleships, AI taking over the Pentagon, and why the United States Coast Guard might have the coolest recruiting footage in the military right now. The United States Army confirms recovery efforts off Morocco, the USS Gerald R. Ford breaks deployment records, the Navy wants nuclear-powered Trump-class battleships, and the Marines keep...

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Ops Brief 154: Daily Drop - 11 May 2026 - SR Guys Are...

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2026/05/11

Send us Fan Mail Peaches is back for the May 11 Daily Drop—and apparently the internet is having a complete meltdown over today’s Special Reconnaissance episode. Some people watched the thumbnail… got emotional… and never actually watched the episode. Classic. So Peaches kicks this one off setting the record straight on United States Air Force Special Reconnaissance, United States Air Force Combat Control, and why capability—not ego—actually matters. Then the Ops Brief goes full chaos: ...

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