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.
Episodes
892 episodes
Ep 596: The Zulu Course Ruck Problem
Aaron jumps on solo for a serious episode about the reported Air Force Special Warfare Zulu course ruck event, why it matters, and what candidates need to understand right now.This episode focuses on reports of a heavy evaluated ruck in ...
Ep 595: Why People Quit Special Warfare (And Why Some Don’t)
This solo episode with Trent gets real fast. No hype. No fake motivation. Just an honest conversation about why people walk away from Air Force Special Warfare—and why some still choose the hard path anyway.Trent breaks down something mo...
***Sneak Peek***MBRS 91: Aaron Unsupervised: Fitness, Violence, OTS Expansion & the Venezuela Boat Media Meltdown
No crew. No guardrails. Just Aaron on a members-only mic doing what he does best—thinking out loud and lighting fires. This episode is an end-of-year wrap that turns into a manifesto: why fitness is a moral obligation, why “peaceful” without ca...
Ep 594: The Air Force Special Warfare Ruck Standard Got Stupid
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches are back in the team room, and this one starts with Tasty Gains, UFC at the White House, soccer, Nitro Circus, sketchy bungee jumping, and somehow ends exactly where it needed to: Air Force Special Warfare pipeline sta...
MBRS 116: Air Force BMT Is Finally Changing
Peaches and Trent are back for a MBRS-only episode covering Air Force Basic Military Training changes, recruiting problems, AI-generated military content, Special Reconnaissance rumors, AFSOC funding, general officer accountability, and the int...
Ep 593: Good Humans Make Great Leaders | Jody Fletcher on Real Leadership
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 a...
MBRS 115: CIA Fraud, Space Force Rumors, and Air Force Bonus Chaos
Aaron and Peaches are back for a MBRS-only episode that goes exactly where you would expect: sideways.The episode starts with Vegas weather, F-16 maintenance appreciation, C-17 dirt landings, and then quickly turns into Space Force consp...
***Sneak Peek***MBRS 90: From Dog-Sitter Narcs To An Unhinged Rant
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 th...
Ep 592: Military Standards vs. Internet Idiots
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 onl...
Ep 591: The Pipeline Doesn’t Care About Your Excuses
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 ti...
***Sneak Peek***MBRS 89: So You’re ‘Good at PT’? Congrats—Nobody Cares.
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 disma...
Ops Brief 161: Daily Drop - 1 June 2026 - The Army Better Be Ready for Drone Warfare
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-38...
MBRS 114: Air Force Special Warfare Is Still Crushing Candidates
Aaron and Peaches are back for a members-only episode, and somehow National Donut Day turned into a full breakdown of Air Force Special Warfare selection numbers, SWAS changes, basic training, refires, burpees, eight-count bodybuilders, and why...
Ep 590: Pete Hegseth, Fat Troops, and the Return of Military Standards
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 train...
Ep 589: The Drone Revolution Is Here With Grant "Slider" Bishop
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 dron...
Ops Brief 160: Daily Drop - 28 May 2026 - Marines “Special Ops Capable” + Narco Raids
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 Coasti...
***Sneak Peek***MBRS 88: The Toilet That Broke an Airman… and Other Leadership Clownery
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 obsessi...
Ep 589: Memorial Day Isn’t About Being Sad. It’s About Remembering the Boys Right
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 Da...
Ep 588: Death by a Thousand Clicks: Why the Air Force Is Burning Out Its Best People
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...
Ops Brief 159: Daily Drop - 20 May 2026 - USAF Bonus Cuts & NATO Shot Down a Ukrainian Drone?!
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...
MBRS 113: Is AI Destroying Us?
Peaches goes solo for this live MBRS episode after Vegas weather wrecked the normal recording schedule—and somehow turns it into one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about artificial intelligence yet.From massive AI data center...
Ops Brief 158: Daily Drop - 18 May 2026 - Bayonets Are Back & OSI Betrayal
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 ...
Ep 587: PJ to A-10 Pilot… Then DUDE44 Happened
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. C...
Ep 586: “Extreme Violence?”—Why Civilians Don’t Get War
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 imagin...
Ops Brief 157: Daily Drop - 14 May 2026 - Navy Might Go BROKE & Russia Just Launched 800 Drones?!
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...