Why Air Force Special Warfare?

[Music] you're listening to the ones ready podcast a team of air force special operators torched and combat with over 70 years of combined operational experience as well as a decade of selection instructor experience if you're tired of settling and you want to do something you truly believe in you're in the right place now here's your host former prep course ops superintendent and current special reconnaissance training guru Trent seg Miller hey everybody welcome to another podcast with your favorite team the ones ready team you're in the team room today we're gonna go on a caffeine-fueled rant about why we love the Air Force why we love a spec war but before we get to that as always we just want to thank you all for listening subscribing leaving your comments whether they're nice or not we appreciate y'all and make sure you subscribe don't just listen for free that's cheating so also this wouldn't be possible without some friends well it would be possible without friends because 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drawn by horses the Civil War just ended the air force was a you know a twinkle in somebody's eye I think Ike was thinking about it but Jarrod peaches why'd you join the air force like what what led you in that direction tell us your your interesting story well you guys know I came in pretty young but I knew that I wanted to do this right around my sophomore year funny enough I actually did you know I different ROTC in high school in freshman year for about two days before I said I don't like getting yelled at screw this especially by my yeah especially by my own peers like it's just you know and then I was like oh okay cool that's not ROTC is not for me and everybody's like alright well there's no way he's going in the military then because he's not going to do that but this career field and these careers Rios inspect war they I mean I think they kind of lend that kind of you know mentality to our kind of people is like hey you can yell at me all you want it's not really gonna affect me too much now or even when I came in at a 10 dock at the time but yeah that was definitely not a thing when I was a freshman I was like yeah we're in the same like math class together with why do you think you could treat me like this listen up Karen yeah yeah yeah you were you were born in July instead of October and that's why you're one year ahead of me why are you yelling at me right now get the [ __ ] out of here exactly so yeah that was that was my thing and at the time I only knew about PJs and and not kamek controller so when I went in it was as under a PJ contract and was able to swap while we were at n dock but what drew me to was the like the guaranteed hey I get to go to freefall I get to go to dye school both open circuit and closed circuit I get the you know jump out of planes right dirtbike shoots work on small teams attached to people and so this you know I explored the seals I and I mean I try to get me to become a ranger it's just none of it appealed to me and especially going at the army I was never guaranteed you'll get dive school freefall or anything like that it was kind of luck of the draw so and I really wanted those things and so that's why I chose this did you have other people in your from your family that are in the military because I honestly didn't know anything about like what free fall was I never met anybody that had jumped out of a plane never knew anybody that went scuba diving before and like I didn't really know the terminology for any of that stuff so do you have other family members that did that kind of stuff yeah so my my cousin he was in the Marine Corps he was an f-18 pilot and and then he so he was still doing pilot stuff when I came in and my uncle was also a Marine my grandfather was in the Navy my cousin though she's younger is in the Air Force and then my brother joined the Air Force as well but he's all younger so it was there was literally you know my grandfather my uncle my cousin and then me but I mean it means they're a lot different than this you know yeah the other ones tasted that good tastes like lemon yeah how are you even getting information like was it recruiters or job fair or pamphlets or what it was Morse code you know it was it was literally like the little trifold pamphlet that the recruiters give out and they didn't have an Operations recruiters it was just and I think it was a I think his Maltz was on the on the front of it yeah I was on there for a long time yeah he's a good dude yes I'm not gonna be he was a good looking man what am I gonna say I think you just oh yeah I think so today yeah he's a patriot all right so I'll take it over from here you know it'd be weird to ask yourself questions so move it along we talked about it before I want to ask you know you hear Trent when you came in what was your motivation for coming in did South you know what came first the chicken or the egg was it salty and your willingness to go do that thing did that draw you in or did you want to be in the Air Force first no and go you found out about sounds easy no I mean I'm just like a lot of other people out there I had no idea any of these career fields existed and actually I was on my way to sign my paperwork with the Marine Corps and I drove past the Air Force recruiters office that had just enlisted my brother a few months prior or they he'd gone into their debt program or whatever so I called my brother we had cell phones at the time just to make sure of his time lines between peaches and iron is you know correct so I called my brother you know it's like hey man why did you join the airforce he's like dude just stop by the recruiter and really what got me into the Air Force is I walk in the recruiters office and I was like why should I join the airforce and I'm used to the Marines being like brother you want to join the Marine Corps but I walked in the airforce recruiters office and he had his feet kicked up on the desk and I'll never forget I looked over at Tech sergeant Pugh who barely noticed me walk in the door and I was like why should I join the airforce you know I had to like get his attention and he looked at me and it was a it was like oh three so they weren't having a hard time bringing people and we were like the only branch not having a hard time with that and he just looks back at me he's like I don't know why should you join the Air Force and I was like I don't so like I send out so yeah that's a heck of a question you have my attention yeah so I mean just I like the thing that I had to to try to get into the Air Force appealed to me you know and he didn't want to talk to me until I took the a stab in the D lab and all that other stuff and actually came in to be a linguist that didn't work out because you know I couldn't get a TS out the gate for reasons and then um I just we're gonna take that post editing we're just gonna fly robot look that's gonna be we're not gonna worry about it'll be like earlier misstep on the language we're just gonna go ahead and cut it out we're gonna move on we're gonna thank Nikki and we're gonna it's all in the record now so it's okay fantastic yeah but you know they gave me five options one was whether I joined whether you know halfway through tech school I wanted to you know eat my brain against the wall just because I you know I wanted to do more and these idiots came by with great Berets and said you want to jump out of planes and get shot at and I was like yes please yeah absolutely up until that moment I had no idea it existed and I had no idea what I was getting myself into oh really yeah I don't think I really saw much about CCT but I don't think I ever saw anything about Satya on that pamphlet no I 100% Jeremy was talking about like I didn't know what he what it was until I went to SDS and like these guys at the great Berets doing at this squadron here yeah yeah I can't man thinking about I don't even know when the first time I ran across a weather guy it had to have been you know at our first assignment where I've son like you know same sort of thing where I was like oh hey you're a you're a thing that's cool look at you guys yeah I had no clue so and that's awesome it's it's crazy to hear how that kind of evolved and yeah speaking about that you know evolution sort of thing so you know things are going through a huge transition for you now right Sauti is moving at sr and you guys are getting that new capability and we're figuring out what your pipeline is gonna look like and where you guys go not on normally you know five ten but fifteen years from now put yourself back all the way back when you're in high school knowing where you know sr is going to go or where we hope it's gonna go now let's say that that was a full-fledged capability back when you were a young man you think you still would have gone to the Air Force to do the s our mission when you found out about it and how do you feel like people should feel about the SR move now alright so I'll start with the do I think I would have done it as young men and I'm gonna be more honest than I should right now I would probably be a cross trainee and SR after I joined the Air Force just because I the the Hollywood representation of Soph I didn't fit that mold and unless I had someone like you know y'all telling me that being able to run fast and not get tired is a huge part of what it takes and not be a giant you know muscle-bound Arnold Schwarzenegger and predator which by the way is the greatest movie of all time you know a person that makes it through I mean it's hard to say because I didn't have any data but I I was under the impression that everybody that went to those types of career fields and and lines of business were were those people you know what I mean that's that's the misconception that that you're right I don't know if it's Hollywood or just everybody because you know I had the same thing when I showed up the N doc I got all these I mean there were some massive dudes and I'm like what am i doing I mean look at me and then and then they are the ones that you know got it written you know they were out and so it's just entering most of us are a smaller smaller folk so ya know spell like cabbage and stuff comes up it comes out of NSW but the saying is you know selection favors the smaller guy and it does like huge huge muscle band-aids have problems like obstacle courses and concept pounding and all that weight so well my wife could second you know what Trent's talking about there she said that they went to school together I don't know Trent remembers and she was like oh yeah he was like the nicest guy and he was kind of a nerd when he was going through school and I don't know if he remembers me or not but kind of so glad we figured this out I'm so glad we're not four yes if she just realized that or she's no no like since I was an instructor down there she's like oh sick Miller tell him I said hi the best trans just like whatever I don't know here talking about yeah but yeah so should ii talking about you're kind of a nerd when you're going to school yeah we're all little and skinny so I was the same size I didn't have a hair on my chest when I first you know showed up to in dock and overtime you know you you learn a lot of stuff and you get get a little bit bigger but to go through the pipeline I don't see anything wrong with going as a skinnier guy especially water con all the endurance stuff that you had to do it really helped out a lot the bigger dudes like Peterson end up having a much harder time with underwater and cardio events you know well and I will say the the the moment I noticed or that I thought that I had a chance to make it in the soft world was when I was in tech school Oh a little bit in VM T but in tech school when we're all running and doing everything else we're doing you know like I had a I had a desire to push you know physically a little bit further and to do a little bit more and so when I had the opportunity presented itself you know I'm not saying that I was thus deadliest of all studs out there or whatever or that but you know as I was I really gravitated towards the physical side of the military and you know being conventional whether in tech school was not you know fulfilling all of those desires yeah but if I was looking at it now with that started with the way it's coming down it's it's yeah I mean I think that appeals to almost everybody for all the informational pour now like I said I almost became a marine so I had aspirations to go and do certain things the marine corps and see if I could do stuff on that side of the house so I don't think everything so recon for the Marines are we gonna try to go oh three one more like what what were you gonna try to do I was probably gonna be infantry at the beginning and then see what happen yeah I'm not a big planner I don't know if you haven't so I'm like it's gonna work itself out have a guy I just find it really interesting that you you would do it over again you'd be across training just because that's kind of counterintuitive to what at least I've said to people of cuz because we yeah because we do get a lot of questions about people they're saying hey I want to come in and do this and then I'll cross train and just and we've said it before so much life can happen there's limited slots you're getting older so there's issues but that's just interesting today I think I'm taking my experiences from back then and superimposing them over right now without addition of the the developers out there the Special Operations recruiters people like once ready you know giving you all the data you need to actually make a decision whereas back then I had no data and so if I'd heard about the career field with no data I would have just assumed it's it's probably not gonna be my thing okay yeah make sense all right that's that's probably enough about trend segments delve into any other Nikki's memories and embarrass some more so you know Brian like you came from uh you know Brian outskirts of Phoenix like you said you didn't know anything so what kind of what what did you hear and what led you to to be a PJ you know it's like to join and to give you the confidence to think that you could do it well I don't know if I ever had the full confidence I was honestly there's a kind of turning point in my life when I graduated from high school and I was not doing anything in college I've kind of said that before and I got the opportunity to work for an insurance company that was in like downtown Phoenix in a high-rise building on like the hundredth floor or whatever on seventh Street downtown I'd have to like drive thirty minutes and go into this bridge into the heart of Phoenix and work for these guys so there was like a hundred people out the first interview and I made it past that one ten people out the next one and then they sat me down in a room and they're like hey you know we like the way that you talked to people and we think that you would be really good in our company and we have people that are making whatever six figures and that kind of stuff would you we want you to be a part of our company if you want to we just want to know if you want to take the job I was i sat there I remember like I took a minute and I was just like I don't want to do this job you know if you say no it's a bold move it's not a good answer to that question I envisioned myself driving around in a car going like trying to sell people friggin insurance or talking people on the phone all day sitting in this building and I was just like this is not what I'm gonna do with my life this is not me and I can't be happy with this because I was already upset with just being in college and I kind of you know didn't really pay much attention to it and didn't focus so I was like alright let's join the military my uncle who is he was an infantry guy in the Army who's a major reservists he's like well if you're gonna join anything just joined the airforce but I still went to all the other recruiters and I was talking to the army about they wanted me to do infantry they wanted me to do tank squadron or something and then I was like well what about Rangers like no just go infantry first and then worry about talk to you listen just go in to do any other job it's gonna sort itself out what you get the piece that's gonna be great so just let's just let's just get you there listen that don't think too hard let's go can you sign it let's go to the Navy dudes and they're like well you might be on a ship even if you do become whatever I don't know what job I don't think I was even looking into seals at that point and I went to the Air Force and he was kind of the same way that Trent was saying he's like well we've got all these jobs open right here so pick whichever one you want and I was like well what is this airborne linguist thing he's like well you get to fly around you learn a different language like okay well that sounds cool oh I wouldn't mind learning another language well hopefully they hang out for a couple more tests because I only have two more and then I'm like what else you got he showed me a video he doing the VCR on a little like you know wheeling carted down like a cargo straps and it fell over it was good no I know the one yeah he's doing this video of the Iceland PJs doing that thing to the Marilyn Manson song and I was like alright so they're jumping up planes and they get to go save people alright let's go try it out see how it goes and I was honestly thinking you know it can't be as hard as seals it can't be as hard as Green Berets that kind of stuff so I'll probably a good chance of making it but I'm gonna train my butt off anyway here we go so I ended up just you know training and shipping and going from pararescue that way I didn't know anything else about it other than you know the objective was to go save people and then I didn't know about the paramedic I know about the dive school the closed-circuit the halo the shooting because I had never shot a gun before I never jumped out of a plane or known anybody that had jumped out of a plane I had never known anybody that went that had before like nobody in my family did any of those things we went how you doing once in a while that's about it you are exactly so I I have a story that's exactly like there I am a man in doc were passed were passed how weak so where it like the second week like I don't know six or seven right of the time that I graduated I had a younger guy come across the hallway and knock on my door he's like hey sergeant love I got a question for you I'm like what's up man he's like what is this whole pararescue thing about this seems really intense and I was like what do you mean he got named to be a mechanic his recruiters like hey uh so you want to be a mechanic and the guy was like his name was Dustin he was like I mean ya know uh I guess I'll do that like that's cool I want to be able to have his flowers and dust they he was like so Dustin was a cross-country athlete so he's a really good runner he's really good swimmers like hey if you can run swim past this test you can try this PG I think does is like okay cool completely blind no idea not no not a single idea about the military in general pararescue specifically nothing people he'd never shot a gun never known anything and he literally won't came over to me to dock like six weeks he was like this whole thing seems pretty intense man I'm like your telly I was shocked I was it you came in here I was like people trained for years four or five ten years to be to come to give this shot and you just came in off the street blind and now you're somehow successful and you want to start wrapping your head around it he was like yeah that's about it he turned out to be one of the best PJ's like he is now out on the callee team but he's awesome I actually he I supervise him when he cut to the first assignment and then he's out in Cali now but same sort of things his same story is you hey what's this sounds cool okay [Laughter] but that's part of the whole reason why I think this is important to do is because no one should have to really walk in and blind like you should know you know of course luckily it worked out for me but there are a lot of guys that you know when I was instructor didn't work out so hot because they're in the same boat we always had that one dude like the first day when I was an instructor at in dock we'd briefed um we tell them about stuff like all right if you're not here to join pararescue if you're not into like riding around helicopter jumping out of planes any of that stuff you can quit now and we'll sign the paperwork there always be one dude that was just like any of this stuff this sounds like it's gonna be hard can I I'm straight-up not having a good time it's a voluntary career filled all the way through so that's kind of my my story and how I went into the Air Force just kind of blind a little bit but you know end up working out candidate great student all right Aaron you uh you're next buddy giving it all that you know get a little too big for your britches and well I cut you down a little bit get you to my height so it's gonna be a lot of cuttin so did you always know you wanted to be in the military nah man I dress it on the other video but I came from a military family both my grandparents and my dad Navy Navy army so grandparents both in the Navy and then my dad was in the army but it was never thing my dad was a fireman we lived in you know Northeast Ohio so had no clue honestly I had you know I was gonna go to college and at the time I you know I think I wanted to be a journalist or something like your 15 year old job and your 25 year old job in your 35 year old job till I was funny to compare those those three things case you're like boy I was stupid all three phases but I think I wanted to be a journalist I went to you know my undergraduate classes were basically in nothing I think was like you know political science and sociology or something stupid so I was just taking prereqs at Ohio State and you know wasted a couple years worked in some bars and then September 11th happened and I was like hey man this is the thing I'd like to go do this thing and that was it I had no there was no intention before on I always thought it was fine I was like hey that's that's always a good option it's out there but I never seriously considered it really before September September 11th so so you never really considered any other branch either or story exactly like Trent's you know I started I talked to my dad first of course cuz you always talk to you know people you know whatever I remember this one specific part of the highway - we were driving back to where I was living in Akron it's the suburb of Barberton where I live and grew up but I was just like hey man I think I'm gonna have to go do this thing and he was just like yep I get that he was like do me a favor and he because he asked me he's like what do you want to do I was like I definitely want to go something special forces I don't want to do something you know a line infantry I'd like to you know be a ranger at the time I was looking at Force Recon actually because I had a swim coach it was a Force Recon first force recon guy and he had told stories I was like that's something I might want to be involved in I said I'd like to go Force Recon he was like do me a favor just go talk the Air Force first talked to the Air Force Special Operations guys and looking into PJ so I went in and literally read the same pamphlet that same trifold except it had chief Artie over on Thompson on it Oh looking real good had a pair of the big dust goggles and those big helmets that they first issued in the desert camo and he was like talking on a radio or something but yeah he was like here you go and then a week later I was in DEP and then two months later I was gone and that was it didn't work out so well at least not in the short term but that was that was pretty much it so a little back and forth in here and I mean I never even talked to the never talked to the army or whatever I went to the Air Force and that was pretty much it but I imagine with your your brothers because you've got a you know family full of military that they probably influenced you quite a bit well they're all younger than me so I was the first one to go oh yeah so I failed in influencing anybody it was me I went to the Air Force and everybody else is like Aaron's an idiot I'm gonna go to the army so they're all three in the army to warrant officers and then my brother's a First Sergeant so yeah yeah I did not influence them at all I couldn't Lou them over to the dark side that's crazy well you're not a great recruiter then I'm not a terrible recruiter I do a bad job a settlement no matter how many times they see like the goods and it's funny cuz my my youngest brother and I live together here where we're station now oh yeah yeah I said the orders just happened to work out at the same time so you know we're in the same spot yeah so anyway there you go how I got in and where we are now do you still keep a journal at least since you're interested in journalism I actually do so keep a journal it's been one of those things that's not what journalism is I feel like like I know that you don't go out and like report on things and try and write down event right so I got cast for on a podcast we're reporting about we're producing online content this is closer to what we're doing other than me journaling it's protected by a horse with a sword on its head his name is Justin dear journal Brian really ticked me off today here's what happened dear journal nikki is gonna kill me because I screwed up one more time all right how many times do I have to tell them so I think we'll push this thing forward now everybody knows our stories about how we got to where we are and why we're so amazing so let's start the Q&A I'll start it off because the first question we have on here is an SR related question let's somebody else must take it no okay thank you think I'm qualified for that don't go for Orion how let asks does SR still forecast weather or did they drop the weather capability altogether we don't forecast but we collect so easy answer I think we advanced without a few other times I'm not mad at you but we don't forecast anymore all right next question and let's take it so we got this a lot as well everybody is being affected by Cove at 19 right now so gyms are closed pools are closed which is obviously affecting people's training but has any of this affected the pipeline ans or any other follow-on training that's probably a more of question for Trent - ding yeah so Supriya sessions obviously the the lack of pool and all that other stuff we're trying to work through how we're still gonna bring people in the door and because we don't know how long code is gonna last where we're working through all those options other than that there are there's kind of like a lockdown on moving people base to base and the military right now so it's I'll just wrap this up with saying it's slow going so we're not getting the numbers of people pushed through all the courses that maybe we wanted - I'll tell you we're working really hard at it it's it's the topic of almost every discussion from all the way from the pinyon all the way down to the training squadrons so everybody's working on it it's just a process we're gonna have to work through and it's probably an effect that's for you know a little while yeah it's definitely going to create a bubble but the important thing is that we like their recruiters and I know I work with the Special Operations recruiter here in Tampa but like they are still taking people so if you think that hey all this is put on hold because of Kovan 19 they are still shipping people out mm-hmm yeah and the other part of that is if you guys are kind of basic they're gonna hold your for two weeks in quarantine until you can start your basic training and for me because I am also in training right now they're still moving mission essential personnel from what I've heard is a ATC is really trying to pump the numbers because you know we still need people to go in the air force cube or still retire and people are still separating so we need people to back fill all those positions so that is also considered up there with mission essential is the AEC portion and for me I'm still gonna you know medical provider so I'm gonna be pcsing and everything so all that still happened and something we're still doing their things yeah sorry yeah just something interesting that they're doing is if you don't come from a high-risk state then the entity is allowed to say how long you have to quarantine so sometimes it's three days sometimes it's two weeks sometimes it's four days sometimes it's a medical evaluation so the National Institute of Health has a good website where you can figure out what that travel looks like but they're trying to work that mission essential tag in to getting pipeline training done still doing ans is still doing those other schools so yeah they're they're working through it it's evolving and our training is mission essential and also I'll just say if you make it in right now and just don't use it as an excuse with all the changes to give yourself an way out just put it to the back your mind show up you know we call it coning out a little bit I think I've heard it mentioned where you just kind of turn your brain off a little bit just keep moving forward I've never heard that but that is I have never happen I do exactly what you mean I've combed out thousands of times right so in my life if you're gonna cone something out just just count out all that nonsense and I just don't use it as an excuse to do anything negative all right cool next question is from Roberto Rodriguez the third what are what items are allowed at NS boots recovery gear supplements any of you guys have anything on that so I can answer some of this yeah go ahead and take it for a new unit all right so as far as boots are concerned you guys are allowed to wear whatever boots as long as they're within the AFI 36 2903 is dress and appearance to standards so you can look that up it's open source you can see what is the regulation for the boots that you need to buy and as long as they comply with that then you're allowed to wear those ANS that's a whole nother topic though boots you could talk about for a while there so we'll save that one for another episode but as far as uniform that's that you can wear recovery gear I'm not sure exactly I think you mean like supplements or bands or someone yeah like rollers yeah lacrosse balls I think recovery you can bring your own stuff but I know they're issuing a lot of stuff over there now right Trent yes you're good they're getting a whole package of stuff you're gonna get your rollers and your lacrosse balls Haleh there's something you're gonna be trained how to use it so yeah so you can do all that and last I heard as far as supplementation the only thing that you were allowed to use was way supplements if you guys are watching this on YouTube you're in ans go and drop down in the comments below or you know put it out there so people know with the current standards are but laws last time that I heard was away protein was the only thing that you're really allowed to use and like a multivitamin or whatever so that's what I got on that anybody else yeah same stuff so by the end of the pipeline it there's actually less wiggle room because you're issued everything by then so the way that it works at the very end of the pipeline for gear specifically is that you're actually given the gear when you go through the apprentice course you're actually given all of your gear that's yours before you go through the apprentice cours so everything you graduate with you don't turn anything in anymore like there's there's no personal gear that you turn back in so you're giving your whole a B and C kits you train with that gear and then you bounce out so there is no like everybody's wearing the same year because we all give you the same gear and outfit you with all the same year so at the end of the pipeline problem solved nice nice I want to ask this next one to the peaches just because I want to it's from Bob he lack what is like working as a CC t attached to an Oda okay so it's kind of like any other any soft team really whether it's Oda seals or your international partners you know you're going as a single element to go support these guys and generally I mean I've I can't think of a single team that I've been attached to that has not treated me almost better than their own people as weird as that may sound it's just because it's like it's like when you have a guest that comes into your house you want to make sure that they're comfortable that they're feeling welcome that you know all that kind of you know pushy stuff yes I guess that will save your life that's they're still there still a they don't know you a lot of times unless you happen to work with each other in training during an exercise or a prior deployment they don't know you so there's some inherent trust that already exists because hey you're a soft dude and we know that you've been through this and but there is still that man until I see you've been warmer that trust but verify exactly so because nothing to tell you what you show your ass you know on out no on an overland movement or out on the range like if you show that you're you're not comfortable on the range and you're unsafe like you're done there's no like oh I'll get better yeah that's it you're out so there is no there's that was your try out fella yep yeah that was my whole experience too as far as like a younger guy though well I was a little bit younger you're a little bit you know if you're a master sergeant showing up they already assume that you know everything but as a senior Airman showing up you really have to prove yourself especially when you're going out with any of those teams and like you guys said if you mess up one time it's just like that but it's always that but sniffing like you know like dog it whatever but sniffing Cup competition when you show up there's trying to feel you out see like is this guy cool can we hang with them they invite you to like you know go do whatever hang out you have to perform or get kicked out well yeah that initial trust was built by your career field you know through experiences that everybody's had so that the pressure is on to not be that person that jaxa that ruins it yeah you know so and so yeah that's the worst yes it's like we've all gotten that and you you could have just said do you know Aaron love we all knew that's not it's not really not really that cool so anyway from embrace your thought how do I operate errs avoid complete exhaustion fatigue and burnout I'm assuming this means just like in general but you know either I started reading this one and I thought about jiu-jitsu about what it is you need to step on the gas and one of these to step on the brakes I think what it's trying to say is from bridge your thoughts how do you operators avoid complete exhaustion fatigue and burnout that's a good question okay so I'll answer it since I'm already talking and the camera is probably on me already but so we do it by a good commander a good senior enlisted a good troop commander a good troop chief try and manage the amount of time that guys are away and that their job and if we know a guy had a really hot deployment we're gonna kind of take him back and just not not coddle him or anything like that but just keep an extra eye on him that kind of stuff but then after you've been on Team for a couple years you know you go do an instructor gig for where the four years now is generally what the instructor three years mm-hmm so you go three years being instructor you know you get a lot of home time got a lot of time to heal both physically and mentally and work on your family and education if you guys want to and then you can come back to team and start crushing it and then you could go go be an instructor or go kind of do a staff job or something like that again just to to you know stay in the game longer if you will because you will get adrenal fatigue like I mean we just constantly pumping adrenaline in here you you run that risk of having adrenal fatigue after when you've been doing this since the Civil War yeah I know for me um after my first rotation they they they had picked the location I was going to go for my second rotation because of the way that the first one were gone so we do a pretty good job of taking care of each other and making sure that we're not burning guys too hard yeah for sure and sorry that I cut out there this quarantine huh man this a saint i'ma last this next one because I know it's not me this is from Sarge oh the iron again but it cut out again who laughing about the corona joke who is uh who's the coolest on this podcast because it sure as hell like me Brian no definitely not me I think it's Aaron I mean he's the one that Brian is up-to-date and all the the kid talk and stuff nice take personal offense for that I've never felt this so personally attacked I had I said exactly like that just so you guys didn't think I was a coolest one so I know it's not me because I've got way too many knife hands that's pretty hello fellow hello fellow cool teenager friends how are you doing alright moving on so is Brian anyway from a J&B 20 through 73 what does the difference between sr and SR SEAL team I'm not sure that I understand this question within the Air Force we're gonna do special reconnaissance or constant surveillance and all that other stuff that comes along with it for the Air Force and first as part of a global access team which includes combat control pages and TAC piece whatever the seals are doing out on their boats and and what missions they're getting after I'm not 100% sure on but we have different areas of focus so don't ever compare me to a seal ever again there's a lot for aspects to reconnaissance you guys you and a portion of it just like everybody else yeah all right I'll get this Oh from oh you got it from life Alexis how do you ever come negativity from your family or friends I kind of I'm gonna assume that you're talking about people you know you tell them that you're gonna go for pjc CT or special operations and they're like well we don't really see you doing that kind of a thing that's not really your thing or you know do you really want to do that because my parents and a lot of people said the same kind of thing they're like you want to go do Special Operations and you know that is a really big factor and driving me to do those things that I didn't practice as much as I did because I was like you know these people don't think that I can do but I am gonna freakin do this no matter what people say so maybe it was a little bit out of you know just hatred for whatever they're saying and like anger towards their negativity that drove me a little bit there and that wasn't just the only thing but you know just kind of let it fuel you and show them that they're wrong you know you don't have to be that person that you were because I see you as kind of like a kid I see you as the person that they grew up as and some of those things that you did that we're kind of dumb when you were younger I know everyone has their own little stories when they were kids and stuff but that's what they see us and as you continue moving through your life people will view you in a different way based on how you approach yourself you always get a new start whenever you get to a new unit and that's kind of what we used to kind of what you used to say obviously some of your reputation still follows you but they see the person that you are when you show up and they'll know that you're you're there to work or you're there to slack off so once you get to basic training or selection you're that new person that you want to be you know you're carrying the lessons that you've learned as a kid and everything but you're that new person and you are driven or confident or however you want to change yourself you always have a chance to continue improving so that's what I'd say and you guys yeah I would say if anybody brings some negativity like that towards you it's probably there their negativity is their problem and it's their feelings of inadequacy or fear or whatever that they're throwing out there and it's not it's not your problem so don't take it personal don't you don't have to hate your friends just because they say something like that and they always use that that tone I love the way you said that Ryan like I don't you know you like really yeah you know like I was yeah I was gonna say the exact same thing is you trying I'm just like hey man that's a done problems that's not a you problem like bringing that negative it's like are you sure you want to do this I don't think you get it no I'm just like this wasn't like a conversation this was me letting you know that I'm gonna go do this you can either support me and be my boy or be my friend and come with me on this journey or not either way I was just letting you know so it's always one of those things where when that negativity gets putting in life I'm like hey that's a you problem in I'll be here when you get done but yeah I was I laugh because I was like cool on can't wait to say this and then you stole my thunder so now I'm just stupid payback all right this one's from Caden WGC do you get to work a lot with physical trainers and nutritionists on bass you guys want to answer this so you want me to take it that means short answer we got them on the team I said I was gonna say we got a code if it's not just it's not on bass it's in the building that we have offices they just work there it's not a base asset it's a unit asset so yep yep money preservation we're the force in the family or the family and of course I always mix up the FS but it's huge I mean it's a whole it's a whole psychiatrist social worker doctor ID EMT physical therapist sport medicine chaplain nutritional list strength coach I mean it's it's an incredible asset that we get to take advantage of it's pretty awesome yeah it's great this is my favorite question that came in from I'm not gonna tell what is Trent spirit animal and why is it a platypus wait a second you skipped a question yeah fortune favors the bold my friend we go go with your spirit animal if it's not a platypus what is the first off my spear down almost like coyote because I'm not good planning but I'm a survivor so okay the Moors thought you've at least thought that through you thought that one through those are pests in Arizona's own people just kill those because that's the thing is the more you try to kill it the the more they breed and actually the the the more we try to contain them though they're actually in all 50 states now or all 49 states except Hawaii I was gonna say be a tough one for them to get to Hawaii yeah I don't know the pretty awesome Brian what's your spirit animal I I don't know I've never really thought about why spirit AI haven't either I'm glad you didn't ask me come on guys come on guys spirit animal alright so from what what's your spirit animal yeah the Orca it's the killer whale it's the wolf of the sea it hunts with its boys all the time it murders for fun and it is vicious it's really smart it figures out how to just murk people and it travels in baskets work is a really really badass don't don't be fooled by Free Willy so uh from sono finder what was your holy holy crab I'm not in training anymore this is real moment man I don't I mean okay yeah I got your one so okay and I'm gonna try not this to make this sound like a cringy war story at all but you know week to late everybody get your record buttons right now here we go there's some juice back so so we've got we have range time right it can be two hours four hours whatever in that that's either you know out shooting maybe that's working with aircraft calling in close air support but it's generally a two to four-hour block and that's it because you got to get off the range and the air and training and you got to let other people get on right so being used to that and then getting in a firefight that lasts thirty-six hours you like after the first four or five hours you're like holy cow man all right well this was fun you're like oh yeah I'm still in it scars that I you know removed immediately yeah I this is not my story I mean I was involved but I will I will recant it so last time I was in Afghanistan we got a call it was really close to us assuming alert so we assumed alert and then right away we had to go on something worst possible scenario that we were riding in helicopters the valley was above the helicopter I don't know if you can people above a helicopter is a bad thing for a helicopter nobody should be a rat like above the big choppy thing because all you could throw a rock and take a helicopter down at that point so no kidding in a valley we had to hoist some guys in take somebody out and then leave the valley it was very intense a very the very first thing that my young team member on the birds said to me was like holy cow man this I thought this was training for a second and as we were going around and picking everybody up and leaving I realized that it was real world and it threw me for a loop and I was like yeah man it's wild huh like that guy ended up going on to a different unit a very highly specialized unit and he's doing great things but I'll always remember that because he pulled me aside literally to tell me his name it starts with a J so what's up J but he was like hey man that was really wild I thought that was training until the very end and I was like okay cool cool cool cool because I was terrified at the entire time all right so let's go with a Dean panel has sr apprentice course been moved from Keesler to pope along with CC team i'm gonna try to not sound like a jerk right now the apprentice courses for both of them have always been a pope so yes that's why that's why I left it that's why I specifically left it in there because I was like this is gonna be a softball we're gonna be able to end on this one I think I failed am i trying to be nice right there no you're good yeah it's always been there whatever we we skipped one that I think is is good to hit at least while we're while we're here and it's real real than brandy realer than reading is that what it is Brady yeah Brady what are the one of the best exercises to replace pool work while we are all stuck in foreign team yeah so we've gotten this one a couple times I mean cardiovascular endurance long slow distance run I mean just try to up the engine and up your vo2 max as much as you possibly can to substitute it like the specificity is swimming you're not going to improve your stroke you're not going to improve your technique you're not going to improve your efficiency in the water but you can't improve that overall basal metabolism metabolism at a high rate to increase your vo2 max so sprints mix in some long-distance running and some straight-up endurance I think that'd probably be the best one that I can advise I guess yeah I've actually been working on a blog post to put on have a PJ because every single day at least two or three emails that I get are this exact same question like pools are closed what should I do because you know you guys are doing the programs and stuff so my recommendation just like Aaron said you got to keep the up that cardio that's the most important thing right now I recommend full-body low-impact type of exercises that way you're not running back and back back-to-back days and crushing your shins so you can replace it with you know the Versa climber real machine if you don't have those kind of things then you can use like some of the grass and gorillas and we'll move mid type of things for your cardio so you're getting that high intensity and cardio together and by those I mean bear crawls crab walks mixture of those mountain climbers all those kinds of things that you can do on land by yourself and I'm mixing those in and then it's also a good time do if you are terrible at push-ups pull-ups work on those specific events that you're terrible on because you have that extra a little bit of time that you're not in the pool not getting your swim stuff ready you know it saves you a little bit of extra time and you probably at home right now so make use of that time and use those low-impact things but the rest of the blog will be up there about you know using an open body of water there's safety safety things that are involved there and even if it is open or not but yeah so those are the things that I recommend in the meantime and I'm doing myself so you guys got anything else flutter kicks nah that's all I got a flare because we do things of the pool that are not necessarily in the water so maybe work on flutter kicks okay there's also breath hold abyssal that have certain programs and stuff like that that it will help you out I haven't personally used any of them but I've had several people give me really good feedback that they enjoyed I'm gonna help them so last question that we got was Pat McAllen and I'm looking this on the air if my initials are PJ I'm basically guaranteed a PJ slot they're just gonna give me a break correct I think that's actually that's that's 100% true the easiest way to do this is just sign so sign up for sign up for ans get everything together and then the first day that you show up to Ana's that's when you collect good that's where you get your beret issued so just make it known that you already deserve a beret you don't need to do the whole ans thing and just tell the instructors basically right when you report on that first day will clean everything right up for you should work you should also get the green feed and lightning bolt tattoo - and just like show them immediately maybe a big chess piece really just establish dominance you just have a huge aspect war tattoo on your chest of the entire thing yeah I think that'll probably work out the best if they don't have all that stuff ready for you when you get there like laying on your bed in your room or something graduations make sure you elevate it to the command make sure that stretches office and you know preferably the group or Wing Commander and they remember go about that all commanders have an open-door policy excuse me I was told I was gonna have a beret I don't want to have to stay in this place very long can you please alright nothing that's a good place to end right there so thank you pat Macallan four so you know start from beginning we went over just some of the different experiences you can see that it widely varies all of our experiences some of us have military experience some of us didn't have people with military experience and some of us knew where they were getting into some of us didn't know at all what we were getting into some of us had to try a couple times to get into it and now things happen and here we are full circle we're all here in the team room talking about our experiences in life and I think the most important thing about what we talked about today is that we all have our own unique experiences to bring to the team and with those experiences we all become you know a better team because we have all these people that have different perspectives and life experiences honestly so whether or not we came in with you know one intention or the other or had the correct amount of knowledge coming in I think overall what matters the most is our commitment to the mission and that's why we signed up in the first place is we want to go out there we want to be with like-minded people and we want to go execute the mission so hopefully you guys we answered your questions well we tried our best to the fullest extent to answer all these questions if you guys have more you can always reach out to us like like always over on the IG drop your comments down on youtube if you have other questions we'll always go on there and answer you guys so we appreciate you guys watching listening and commenting again if you guys have anything for us you can always reach out and make sure you go check out the YouTube as well as the podcast like subscribe and leave us a comment if you're enjoying the show alright we appreciate it we'll see you guys on the next episode light train hard [Music]

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Length: 56min 40sec (3400 seconds)

Published: Sat May 02 2020