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
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 recruiter nonsense, this convo hits every nerve: pride, fear, frustration, and a dad’s brutal honesty about letting go. Rob doesn’t sugarcoat it—he talks about raising a son who fails, a...
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 into the darkness, he drops truth bombs from the latest Operator Training Summit: how the next gen of Special Warfare candidates are showing up hungrier, sharper, and more locked-i...
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 Benadryl brain fog and melatonin overdoses to why your “one beer to chill” actually nukes your REM cycle, this one’s a brutal wake-up call. Leah demolishes the “I’ll sleep when I...
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 surviving the wifi going out while others who actually fought for their lives get nothing. Dan drops receipts straight from the battlefield, naming the hypocrisy, inflated hero ...
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 finally fix years of inefficiency in the operator pipeline. This isn’t about lowering standards — it’s about eliminating wasted time, tightening the process, and producing better operators, faster.
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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-haired generals who tanked Afghanistan and somehow still have opinions.
Then he unloads on the FBI’s “major win”: arresting NBA players and coaches for gambling. Because apparent...
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 confesses his TV crimes, and Trent plays devil’s advocate like a champ. The real fire? A scorched-earth takedown of Tim Kennedy—his alleged valor awards, inflated resume, and why stolen valor ...
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 shoved under the Department of Transportation (seriously?), he’s got zero patience for the circus. Peaches calls out the hypocrisy, salutes the few still grinding, and delivers...
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 clearances to the sadistic “Grooster” workout, these dudes talk smoke sessions, failure, and why being called “Eagle” isn’t a compliment. No Hollywood hero shots here—just sweat, stress, and ...
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 badge redesign drama, to the Tech P force reduction nobody understood, this episode pulls zero punches.
Peaches calls out leadership confusion (“Wait, you didn’t know what TacPs do?!”), while JT and ...
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 the idiocy of “Blues Mondays.” From watching 38 candidates grind it out to eviscerating the armchair critics of “warrior ethos,” this episode is a spicy casserole of truth bombs...
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 calls it a misdemeanor. Yeah. A misdemeanor.
This episode rips open every layer of America’s broken “justice” system — lazy prosecutors, soft laws, and zero accountability. Nate a...
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—because someone got scared of “bad optics” during a government shutdown. Spoiler: nobody died, but the leadership’s spine sure did.
Peaches tears into risk-averse commanders, lazy optics-...
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 delusional love stories about the girl back home, Trent serves up a hot plate of hard truths with his signature sarcasm, hotel water, and allergic sneezing fits. If you’ve ever as...
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 instead of letting that define him, he turned the experience into fuel.
Today, Chris leads Project Linear, a tactical gear company built on the same standard of excellence he carrie...
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 through every headline the brass wishes you’d ignore. Peaches calls out the “financially illiterate” lifestyle of troops living beyond their means, laughs at the Army Corps’ endless postponeme...
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 wreckage of a Special Warfare career, and the professional purgatory of trying to give a damn after years of institutional gaslighting. Peaches is post-retirement and post-patience. Tren...
The Ones Ready Team Room is back and Peaches isn’t pulling punches. From the DoD’s latest Inspector General “reforms” (translation: no more hiding behind fake complaints) to the U.S. getting embarrassed in the Arctic—this one’s got everything: cartel strikes, gender-standard meltdowns, government shutdown chaos, and a little unsolicited love for Aussie warfighters.
Peaches dives headfirst into the week’s wildest milita...
Another week, another Green Beret schooling us on life. Dean Goble didn’t just crush 20 years in Army Special Forces—he turned retirement into running the Special Forces Foundation and steering Black Rifle Coffee’s philanthropy like a caffeinated warlord. From dropping “coffee speedballs” into disaster zones to roasting the nonsense of bad nonprofits, Dean breaks down service, optimism, and why coachability beats raw ...
Aaron takes the mic solo and unloads on pipeline myths, training excuses, and bad packet habits. Forget the rumor mill—he explains why the Air Force keeps tweaking Special Warfare selection, why “pipeline optimization” isn’t a conspiracy, and why faster runners are always the ones who graduate. He drags combat controllers over pistol skills, laughs about swim cap questions, and gives the blunt truth: stop wasting time...
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