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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813 episodes
Ops Brief 132: Daily Drop - 27 Feb 2026 - Chinese Pilot Training Arrest & Offensive Chinese Satellites
This one moves fast.West Point dismisses a cadet for using generative AI to create fake explicit images. Zero tolerance for abusing emerging tech. Meanwhile, the Army drops a $186 million order for Switchblade loitering munitions and tan...
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Ep 565: The Air Force Kills More Enemy—And Nobody Wants To Admit It
Peaches and Trent riff on an uncomfortable truth the Air Force rarely markets well: per capita, it’s the most lethal force in modern warfare. From GWAT kill ratios and budget realities to why “Chair Force” jokes might actually be strategic misd...
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Ops Brief 131: Daily Drop - 26 Feb 2026 - Warrant Officer Bonus “Bidding" & Mobility Crisis
This Daily Drop is all movement, no filler.The Army is doubling down on its auction-style warrant officer retention bonus experiment. Market-driven talent management? Maybe. Hunger Games for CW5s? Also maybe. At the same time, lessons fr...
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Ops Brief 130: Daily Drop - 25 Feb 2026 - Medal of Honor for Maduro Raid Heroics & China’s Nuclear Sub Move
This Daily Drop hits heroism, policy shifts, and geopolitical tension in one tight package.President Trump presented the Medal of Honor to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover for extraordinary heroism during the Maduro raid. The 160th SO...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 80: Air Force Leadership Circus: Beards, Broken Windows, and a 4-Star Food Fight
Peaches goes full savage on the Air Force soap opera. From the tragic news of CMSAF Flosi’s loss, to General Allvin’s early retirement, to Wilsbach’s DEI flip-flops and obsession with uniforms—this episode is a rollercoaster of military drama a...
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Ops Brief 129: Daily Drop - 24 Feb 2026 - B-21 Acceleration, A-10 Farewell, and a $4.5B Bomber Push
This Daily Drop covers multiple days of movement across the force—and there’s a lot to unpack.The Army is integrating AI into doctrine writing, launching drone competitions, and standing up a rapid soldier innovation office. The Navy is ...
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Ep 564: $99 Million for “Coaching”? Air Force Contracting and Leadership Drift
This one gets spicy.Peaches, Aaron, and Trent dig into a $99 million Air Force coaching contract and ask the uncomfortable question: why are we outsourcing leadership?When NCOs and officers are supposed to mentor, coach, correct, ...
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MBRS 101: Hollywood Hostage Rescues, Weather Nerd War Heroes, and Yes… Aliens
This week it’s just Peaches and Trent doing what they do best—talking shop, talking trash, and pulling back the curtain on real-world military experience.Trent just wrapped a full-blown hostage rescue film project with helicopters, free ...
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Ep 563: AFSW Attribute - Integrity
This episode tackles the most important—and most misunderstood—attribute in Air Force Special Warfare: integrity. Aaron and Peaches break down why integrity isn’t about being perfect, looking good, or avoiding trouble—it’s about owning mistakes...
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Ops Brief 128: Daily Drop - 18 Feb 2026 - Arctic Air Assaults and Space Force Reality Check
Peaches runs a fast Daily Drop Ops Brief and opens by correcting his earlier miscall on the USS collision—owning it and fixing it. The Army wraps up a $27M digital network overhaul in South Korea, surges troops into Hawaii housing pressure, con...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 79: E-9s Gone Wild: When E-9s Dox Airmen
Strap in—this one’s a mess. The crew breaks down how the Air Force’s first female SERE Chief thought it was a good idea to dox an A1C because his dad called her a “garrison bunny.” Yeah, you read that right. Instead of clapping back wi...
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MBRS 100: Honeypots, USS Mason, Fat Tony Fallout, and Why We Still Can’t Figure Out YouTube
This MBRS episode is classic members chaos. Peaches and Aaron bounce from the relieved commander of the USS Mason to the start of filming for Alone at Dawn, uniform nostalgia, and why ABUs were a crime against humanity. The conversatio...
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Ops Brief 127: Daily Drop - 17 Feb 2026 - Army Honeypots, Ship Collisions, & UAPs
Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and this one’s got everything: an Army Futures and Concepts Command elevation, a retired colonel sentenced for sharing classified war plans with a honeypot, and a battalion leader getting four years for ...
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Ep 562: AFSW Attribute - Fitness
This episode kills one of the biggest misconceptions in Air Force Special Warfare prep: the IFT is not a measure of fitness. Aaron breaks down why fitness and endurance are evaluated as core attributes in selection—and how physical preparedness...
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Ops Brief 126: Daily Drop - 13 Feb 2026 - Army Honeypots and Navy Ship Collisions
Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and this one’s got everything: an Army Futures and Concepts Command elevation, a retired colonel sentenced for sharing classified war plans with a honeypot, and a battalion leader getting four years for ...
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Ep 561: Being a Dad, a Warrant Officer, and a Creator—With OnexPunchxDad Josh Green
The crew sits down with Josh Green—active-duty Army Warrant Officer, content creator, voice actor, and father, best known online as @OnexPunchxDad. What starts with military satire and why his humor resonates across every branch turns into a de...
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Ops Brief 125: Daily Drop - 11 Feb 2026 - AI Data Centers and Drone Swarms
Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and moves fast through a heavy slate. The Army looks to lease installation land for commercial AI data centers, trains leaders on drones and robots at Fort Benning, and deals with a soldier receiving lif...
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Ep 560: AFSW Attribute - Drive
This episode breaks down one of the most misunderstood attributes in Air Force Special Warfare: drive. Aaron explains why drive and grit aren’t about hype, yelling, or being the best on day one—they’re about self-initiation, perseverance, and l...
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Ops Brief 124: Daily Drop - 10 Feb 2026 - Super Bowl Flyovers & a Skyraider Reality Check
Peaches runs a fast Daily Drop Ops Brief with no fluff and no patience for nonsense. This episode hits Army quality-of-life updates at Fort Hood, joint U.S.–Italian training for the German Badge, and why the Navy is openly talking about shiftin...
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MBRS 99: Run More, Fix Your Hips, Nuclear Energy Is Safe, and Society Is Failing Young Men
This MBRS episode starts where most people get uncomfortable and keeps going. Peaches and Trent open with a simple truth from Taylor Starch: nobody runs enough, your hips are probably trash, and injury fear is mostly self-inflicted. From there,...
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Ep 559: Fat Tony Is Out At The USAF Academy!!!
Peaches and Trent break down the growing fallout around Gen. “Fat Tony” Bauerfeind, his short tenures at AFSOC and the Air Force Academy, and why leadership failures don’t happen in a vacuum. From berating cadets in locker rooms to misreading S...
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Ops Brief 123: Daily Drop - 6 Feb 2026 - Medal of Honor, 3D Printed Drones, and a USAFA Shakeup
Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief covering multiple days of military news after a short recording gap. The episode opens with a posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to Staff Sgt. Michael Alice for shielding a Polish soldier during a 2013 Ta...
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Ep 558: Top 10 Things You Should Be Doing Right Now to Survive the AFSW Pipeline
This episode is the closest thing you’ll get to a no-BS preparation checklist for Air Force Special Warfare—delivered straight by Peaches and Trent. They lay out the top 10 things every candidate should be doing before shipping: fitnes...
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Ep 557: AFSW Attribute - Teamwork
This episode breaks one of the biggest myths in Air Force Special Warfare selection: teamwork is not about getting along. Aaron lays out exactly what instructors are looking for in an attributes-based selection model—and why teamwork is evaluat...
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Ops Brief 122: Daily Drop - 3 Feb 2026 - Army Recruiting Shifts, ORIs Are Back, and the Shutdown
Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and cuts through a wide slate of military news with zero patience for nonsense. From the Army’s recruiting age creeping up and a 10th Mountain deployment to the Middle East, to a soldier sentenced for mu...
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