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
Dr. Dave Walton from TF Voodoo joins Aaron and Peaches to break down how to actually train for rucking without wrecking your body.
Dave is a retired Green Beret, doctor, rucking coach, and the brain behind TF Voodoo. In this episode, he explains why most people train for rucking wrong, why “just ruck more” is one of the fastest ways to get injured, and how to build real load carriage performance through Z...
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 the Zulu course, including a 10-mile ruck with roughly 100+ pounds, a 15-minute pace standard, full uniform and equipment requirements, Texas heat and humidity, medical concerns, hea...
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 most instructors don’t talk about enough: at some point during training, candidates realize the logical choice is probably to quit. The conventional military path offers st...
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 capability is a lie, and how attribute-based selection actually works when the slogans stop. Aaron breaks down why OTS waited, why it’s scaling fast, and...
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 standards.
The crew gets into a reported Zulu course ruck event involving a 12-mile ruck at a 15-minute pace with a ruck weighing well over the standard 45 pounds. That turns into...
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 ...
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 hu...
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, g...
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 t...
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...
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 m...
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 ...
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 whoe...
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 yo...
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 clas...
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 ki...
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, duplica...
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 c...
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 Unite...
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 i...
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