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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras
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  • Ones Ready

    Space Force Joins SOCOM - Ep 642

    05/11/2026 | 22 mins.
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    The U.S. Space Force now has a formal component inside U.S. Special Operations Command, and Aaron, Trent and Peaches break down what that actually means for SOF. The new relationship is not about creating “Space Force commandos.” It is about putting Guardians who understand satellite communications, ISR, navigation, electronic warfare and space effects directly alongside the people planning and executing special operations. Instead of SOCOM requesting support from outside the organization every time a problem appears, the expertise is already inside the command and looking at the mission from the beginning.
    That integration could matter more than most people realize. Aaron argues that simply having Guardians in the room allows them to recognize problems other components may not even know can be solved with space capabilities. The guys also discuss the growing Space Force budget, commercial innovation from companies like SpaceX and Anduril, and why space and cyber are becoming increasingly important to modern warfare. Special operations does not necessarily need a new breed of Space Force operator — special operations needs immediate access to people who already understand how to create effects from the space domain.
    The episode also pushes back on the stereotype that Guardians have easy jobs because they sit behind screens. Aaron describes missions that can keep people cognitively engaged inside vaults for extremely long periods, where they may have only seconds to solve a complex problem with real consequences. The guys talk about the strange but high-performing Space Force culture, the growing pains of a young military service, and why exposure to USSOCOM could produce better leaders on both sides of the relationship. Naturally, they finish by designing the ultimate Space Force Ranger with jump wings, a dive bubble, free fall and a Weapons School patch.
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Ones Ready
     01:00 - Operator Training Summit Las Vegas
     02:20 - Aaron Becomes the Ideal PJ Specimen
     03:20 - Surviving the Ones Ready DMs
     04:50 - Space Force Joins USSOCOM
     05:33 - The New Space Force SOCOM Component
     06:34 - Why SOCOM Wants Space Capability
     07:17 - What Does Space Force Actually Bring to SOF?
     08:20 - Space Support to Special Operations
     09:25 - Why Integration Matters
     10:00 - Space Force Budgets and Expensive Satellites
     11:53 - Could Anduril Build It Cheaper?
     12:13 - Special Operations Doesn’t Need Space Commandos
     13:02 - Space Force and SOCOM Have Been Converging for Years
     14:00 - Why Putting Guardians in the Room Matters
     15:18 - Space Force Culture Is Different
     17:40 - The Human Performance Problem Nobody Sees
     19:18 - Thirty Seconds to Prevent Catastrophe
     20:00 - Building the Ultimate Space Force Ranger
     21:08 - Ones Ready Wrap-Up

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  • Ones Ready

    Train for AFSPECWAR + Space Force Joins SOCOM | Ones Ready Live

    05/11/2026 | 1h 9 mins.
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    What should training for Air Force Special Warfare actually look like before you ship? Aaron, Trent, and Peaches go live to break down how future AFSPECWAR candidates should approach running, rucking, calisthenics, strength, water confidence, recovery, durability, and overall preparation — including what candidates consistently get wrong and how to know whether you’re actually ready for the pipeline instead of simply capable of passing an IFT.

    Then the conversation shifts to Space Force inside the USSOCOM enterprise. The guys break down why special operations needs Guardians integrated directly into the command, what space-based ISR, communications, navigation, electronic warfare, and other space effects can bring to SOF, and why having Space Force expertise in the room could matter more than creating some mythical “Space Force commando.”

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  • Ones Ready

    Ones Finally Ready - Ep 641

    02/11/2026 | 22 mins.
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    The Air Force Special Warfare meme wars are apparently back. Aaron, Trent, and Peaches break down how a joke between Ones Ready and JT escalated into an entire AI-generated “Ones Finally Ready” universe, complete with fake movie posters, character transformations, campaign-style content and enough production value that people started messaging the guys asking whether the feud was actually real. The answer is both simpler and somehow more ridiculous: the boys are chirping, everybody has too much access to AI, and some people on the internet have completely lost their ability to recognize a joke.
    That leads into the bigger conversation about humor, military culture and cancellation. Aaron talks about people becoming genuinely angry over TACP jokes, including messages and discussions about fighting him in Vegas, while the guys point out that the actual people involved in the “beef” can still hang out, have drinks and laugh about it. They also discuss anonymous military meme pages, why AI keeps blending Trent and Aaron together, the strange professionalism behind JT’s parody campaign, and why being able to make fun of each other may actually be healthier than treating every joke like a personal attack.
    Naturally, it gets worse from there. The crew pitches Morgan Freeman narrating the fake movie, wonders whether Ones Finally Ready could outperform the Ground Truth documentary, talks about the LGBTACP shirt raising money for the TACP Foundation, and debates whether Peaches needs to retaliate or simply lean harder into the absurdity. Somewhere underneath all the chaos is a very Ones Ready message: you can disagree, roast each other, get chirped online and still be friends when the phones go away.
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Ones Ready
     01:10 - The Episode Immediately Gets Cancelled
     02:00 - The Air Force Special Warfare Meme Wars Are Back
     03:00 - Can Military Communities Still Take a Joke?
     04:15 - Aaron Apologizes for Going Too Dark
     05:04 - The Death of Anonymous Military Meme Pages
     05:44 - Pararescue Is Fraud Enters the Chat
     06:09 - Ones Finally Ready
     06:46 - How the JT vs Ones Ready Beef Started
     08:11 - The AI Movie Gets Way Too Professional
     09:11 - People Actually Want to Fight Aaron
     10:20 - Why AI Keeps Mixing Up Aaron and Trent
     11:01 - JT’s AI Character Choices Get Questionable
     12:05 - People Think the Feud Is Real
     12:59 - Ones Finally Ready vs Ground Truth
     13:29 - Building the Fake Documentary
     14:08 - Morgan Freeman Should Narrate It
     14:50 - The “Beef” Exists Mostly on the Internet
     15:20 - Aaron Was Drinking With JT Two Days Earlier
     16:12 - Is This the Price of Making TACP Jokes?
     17:01 - The Joke Is Actually Helping Ones Ready
     17:30 - LGBTACP Shirts Support the TACP Foundation
     18:34 - The Ultimate TACP Logic Trap
     19:37 - Should Peaches Respond?
     20:19 - When the Bit Goes Too Far
     20:40 - Operator Training Summit Las Vegas
     21:19 - Ones Ready Wrap-Up
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    Did VALENTINA GOMEZ SLANDER SEC ARMY - OTW

    30/10/2026 | 12 mins.
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    Political ads are about to get louder, AI-generated content is getting better, and election-season outrage travels faster than context. In this Outside The Wire episode, Aaron breaks down a campaign attack from Valentina Gomez aimed at Acting Secretary of the Army Adam Telle over the scheduled execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan. Instead of reacting to the clip, Aaron walks through the underlying timeline, Army regulation and specific claims to show how a political narrative can change when the missing context gets put back in.
    The central dispute is timing. President Trump approved Hasan’s death sentence on October 2, 2026, and Army Regulation 190-55 requires the Secretary of the Army to select a date between 60 and 150 days later. Aaron argues that portraying Telle as delaying or protecting Hasan does not match that timeline: the execution is currently scheduled for December 3, just 62 days after presidential approval. He also addresses attacks on Telle’s lack of prior military service and explains the broader principle of civilian control of the military.
    But the bigger point is not Valentina Gomez, Adam Telle or even one campaign ad. It is how to consume political information without letting outrage do your thinking for you. Aaron breaks down appeals to emotion, ad hominem attacks, missing context and unsupported claims while arguing that viewers should apply the same standard to political messaging even when it comes from someone they generally agree with. Agreement on policy does not make a false claim true.
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Outside The Wire: Political Misinformation
    00:44 - Valentina Gomez Targets Adam Telle
    01:58 - Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood Shooting
    02:31 - The Nidal Hasan Execution Timeline
    03:10 - Army Regulation 190-55 Explained
    04:00 - Why December 3 Matters
    05:02 - Civilian Control of the U.S. Military
    06:36 - When Political Attacks Become Personal
    07:11 - Campaign Ads, Emotion and Missing Context
    07:50 - Did Adam Telle Defy the Administration?
    08:28 - What the Reporting Actually Shows
    09:08 - Recognizing Appeals to Emotion
    09:56 - How Political Misinformation Works
    10:45 - The Facts Behind Hasan’s Scheduled Execution
    11:25 - Hold Your Own Side Accountable
    12:17 - Outside The Wire Wrap-Up
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    Should Air Force BMT Teach Everyone to Swim? - Ep 640

    30/10/2026 | 16 mins.
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    After an Airman stationed at Shaw Air Force Base drowned during an off-duty boating trip on Lake Wateree, his family called for swimming instruction to become part of military training and, according to the discussion in this episode, filed a $50 million lawsuit against the federal government. Aaron, Trent, and Peaches wrestle with the tragedy while asking a much harder question: should Air Force Basic Military Training actually be responsible for teaching every Airman how to swim?
    The guys break down what that requirement would mean in reality. Air Force BMT receives roughly 800–1,000 trainees every week, the service has limited pool infrastructure, and basic swim proficiency is very different from being capable of rescuing another person in open water. Trent and Aaron argue that turning swim training into an enterprise-wide requirement would create enormous infrastructure, scheduling, sustainment, and follow-on training requirements — eventually leading to the completely reasonable Ones Ready solution that everyone in the Air Force should simply become a qualified rescue swimmer.
    Then the rails come off. The conversation shifts to the F-35, F-22, F-47, B-21 and F-15EX, why modern fighters are becoming airborne quarterbacks for autonomous systems, and whether the F-15EX should remain a two-seat aircraft. The episode finishes with the newly invented scientific category of “overbeast,” Airmen thanking Ones Ready for fat-shaming them into getting healthier, Roy Nelson’s legendary overhand right, and Trent choosing chaos on virtually every subject available.
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Ones Ready
    01:06 - Airman Drowning at Lake Wateree
    02:20 - Should Every Airman Learn to Swim?
    03:23 - Can BMT Realistically Teach Swimming?
    04:35 - The $50 Million Lawsuit and Personal Responsibility
    06:07 - Is Swimming an Air Force Responsibility?
    07:19 - Everyone Becomes a Rescue Swimmer
    08:05 - What OTS Can Teach in Two Days
    08:44 - The Logistics of Swimming at Basic Training
    10:06 - F-35s and the Future of Airpower
    10:27 - F-16 vs F-35 Capability
    11:20 - F-47, B-21 and Connected Combat Aircraft
    11:51 - F-15EX: One Seat or Two?
    12:40 - Active Duty vs Guard Fighter Culture
    13:17 - Trent Chooses Chaos
    13:58 - Fat Shaming Apparently Works
    15:06 - Overbeast Science
    15:33 - Roy Nelson and the Overhand Right
    16:00 - Ones Ready Wrap-Up
    PINNED COMMENT
    Should Air Force Basic Military Training include mandatory swim instruction?
    A — Yes, every Airman should know how to swim
    B — Basic water survival only
    C — Only career fields that actually need it
    D — No, swimming is a personal responsibility
    And where do you draw the line between what the military should teach every service member and what adults should already know before they join?
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About 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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