Ones Ready
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 physical training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset traits essential to any team. Join us in The Team Room to get all your questions answered!! With battle-tested operators from across USAF SPECWAR and far-reaching web of recruiters, subject matter experts, and friends, there are no questions we can’t answer- and if we can’t, we know exactly where to look. See you in The Team Room!Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the OnesReady team are those of the team and do not reflect the official policy or position of the DoD. Any content provided by our Podcast guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign the DoD, any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone.
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737 episodes
Ep 524: Live with Aaron Loves America!
Aaron’s had enough. This solo Ones Ready episode is a straight-up demolition of every anonymous Air Force wannabe crying about the new Zulu Course. For years, the same crowd begged for tougher, more legit ground training — and now that it’s her...
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Ep XXX: The Zulu Course Is a Dumpster Fire (Or Maybe Not?)
Everyone online says the new Special Warfare “Zulu Course” is trash—so Peaches and Trent decided to light it up. This isn’t a soft take or sanitized military PR moment. It’s two retired operators roasting the chaos, the memes, and the ridiculou...
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Ep 525: Zero Plan, Maximum Impact: Peaches & Trent Break Down the Best OTS Yet
Peaches and Trent are back in the team room—no script, no filter, and somehow their best Operator Training Summit yet. Coming straight off the Nashville event, they pull the curtain back on what really happens when 40 candidates, a han...
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Ep 523: Entitled, Soft, and Not Ready: Aaron Nukes the Zulu Course Crybabies
Aaron’s done playing nice. In this scorched-earth solo rant, the Ones Ready silverback goes full throttle on cones, meme-lords, and anyone dumb enough to trash the new Zulu Course before it even starts. Peaches and Trent are off the mic, which ...
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Ep 524: If You Lose Your Gear, You Deserve It – How To Mark Your Gear
Let’s be honest—if you roll up to a Special Warfare event with unmarked gear, you’ve already told the cadre who’s quitting first. In this episode, Peaches rips through the basics every wannabe operator somehow ignores: how to mark your fins, bo...
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Ep 522: “Nobody Quits at Dinner—They Quit at the Bottom of the Pool” | A Parent's Perspective
Forget the motivational fluff—this one’s raw. Peaches sits down with Rob, a Navy vet and father of a Special Warfare candidate, to talk about what really happens when your kid volunteers for hell. From bottom-of-the-pool breakdowns to ...
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Episode 522
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Ops Brief 110: Daily Drop - 30 Oct 2025 - The Air Force Is Falling Apart
Yeah, this one’s not sunshine and push-ups. Peaches kicks open the team room door and unloads on the chaos hitting the Air Force — murder-suicides, cover-ups, and a shutdown that’s choking the system from the inside out. But before he dives int...
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MBRS 84: America’s #1 Fear Is… a Microphone? Trent Wrecks Your Comfort Zone.
You’re not scared of dying—you’re scared of speaking in public. Trent drops a caffeine-fueled sermon on fear, fragility, and why most Americans are terrified of the wrong things. While Peaches and the crew stare down parachute malfunct...
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Ep 521: Sleep Like a Sniper: FBI Dr. Leah Kaylor Wrecks Your Melatonin & Booze Habits
Everybody brags about “grinding” on four hours of sleep—until their brain turns into mashed potatoes. Peaches sits down with Dr. Leah Kaylor, the FBI’s resident sleep assassin, to expose every lie you’ve ever believed about “sleep aids.” From B...
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Ep 520: The Broken Medal System: Why the Wrong People Keep Getting Recognized
Peaches and Active Duty CCT, MSgt Dan torch the myth of “fair” awards in the military. This one’s not a feel-good story—it’s a reality check. From Manda Bay to the Pentagon, the boys call out the clown show where some people collect medals for ...
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Ep 519: Air Force Streamlines Special Warfare Training Building Stronger Operators, Faster
No rumors. No drama. Just facts and perspective.In this solo episode, Aaron breaks down the Air Force Special Warfare Training Wing’s Pipeline Optimization Initiative — what it really means, why it matters, and how it could fina...
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Ops Brief 109: Daily Drop - 23 Oct 2025 - Generals Lost Faith? Cool—Go Retire, Grandpa!
Aaron’s rolling solo and firing on all cylinders. In this episode, he torches the latest “breaking” story claiming generals have “lost faith” in Secretary Pete Hegseth—calling out the lazy headlines, the performative outrage, and the same gray-...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 66: Tim Kennedy’s Valor Lie, Lobster War Prophecies, & the Domino’s Nuke Indicator – WTF Are We Even Doing?
The Ones Ready crew returns to burn down the house with a brutally honest breakdown of integrity, influence, and idiocy in the military influencer world. Jared’s new book Wet Death gets high praise (and a bit of trolling), Aaron confes...
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Ops Brief 108: Daily Drop - 22 Oct 2025 - Fat Generals, Jared Isaacman for NASA, and SpaceX
The Ones Ready Team Room just went DEFCON spicy. Peaches drops a verbal frag on soft leadership, lazy generals, and the bureaucratic clown show holding America back. From gutless flag officers whining about accountability to NASA possibly being...
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***Fixed***Ep 517: So You Want to Play with Bombs? Air Force EOD Isn’t the Hurt Locker
Everyone loves to say they want a “badass” job—until they realize Air Force EOD actually plays with live explosives. Peaches sits down with three bomb techs who spill the truth about blowing stuff up for a living. From top-secret clear...
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MBRS 83: The Air Force Is Soft—And It’s the NCOs’ Fault (Yeah, I Said It)
Trent goes full throttle in this unapologetic reality check for every NCO hiding behind bureaucracy and excuses. If you’ve ever blamed “today’s Airmen” for discipline problems—this one’s gonna sting. He calls out chiefs playing the victim, NCOs...
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Ep 518: We F’d Up the A-10? Jarred Taylor & CMSgt Spreter Talk The Future of TACP
Buckle up — Peaches sits down with Black Rifle Coffee’s Jared Taylor and AFSW’s Chief Jimbo Spreeder to torch the nonsense strangling the Air Force from the inside out. From the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of the A-10, to the
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 65: Baby Back B*tches & Blues Mondays
Jared’s sunburnt, unfiltered, and back in the war room (well, accidentally someone else’s). In this raw members-only rant, he debriefs the San Diego Operator Training Summit, breaks down the PT standard panic in the Air Force, and flame-throws ...
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Ep 516: The System’s a Joke — Gladdin Family vs. Wyoming “Justice”
Peaches and the Ones Ready crew bring the Gladdins back into the team room for a brutal, emotional update on their fight for Justice for Julie — and it’s worse than you think. A repeat offender with 30+ charges kills Kate’s mom, and the state c...
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Episode 516
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Ep 515: Air Force EOD Event Canceled Over Optics: Leadership Failure or Risk Aversion?
Peaches is flying solo and absolutely torching weak leadership in this unfiltered rant from the Ones Ready team room. The story? A Monster Mash at Little Rock AFB was shut down at the last second—after 50 candidates paid their own way—...
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MBRS 82: Military Mental Health or Excuses? Peaches Says We’ve Gone Soft
Peaches goes solo and unleashes pure unfiltered Ones Ready energy. From Air Force football to government shutdowns, from bogus “Qatari base” conspiracies to the Air Force’s mental health meltdown — no topic is safe. He rips into how the militar...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 64: You're Not Gonna Make It (and Here's Why You Suck)
Trent flies solo and absolutely lights the mic on fire in this unfiltered reality check for every would-be warfighter wondering if they’re cut out for the pipeline. Spoiler alert: you’re probably not. From “weak genetics” and mommy issues to de...
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Ep 514: Project Linear - What Tactical Athletes Wear
Most people see an injury at BUD/S as the end of the road. For Chris from Project Linear, it was just the beginning. After making it through Hell Week and Phase 2, a brutal injury cut his journey short only seven weeks before graduation—but ins...
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Ops Brief 107: Daily Drop - 8 Oct 2025 - Fat Troops, Shutdowns & Cyber Failures
Peaches is back in the Ones Ready Team Room with another no-BS drop that’ll make the Pentagon sweat. From the government shutdown that’s starving paychecks to the beefy boys rolling off bread trucks in Chicago, this episode rips throug...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 63: “Retired but Still Spicy” — PJs, Broken Bodies & Burying the Air Force’s Bullsh*t
If you thought retirement would mellow them out, you clearly haven’t met Peaches, Trent, or Aaron.In this week’s blisteringly honest episode, all three come in hot. We’re talking about the mental minefield of getting out, the physical wr...
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