Give me 60 guys like Mike and you can assemble a SOF team that can do anything! So thankful we had guys like him, Farfan, and Mounts leading the A&S change in AFSPECWAR! 🤘🕓
Thanks for all these videos guys, a lot of really good info. Mike said something interesting about putting your team before yourself and I’m really curious about what that means situationally during A&S. what are some ways you’ve seen candidates make that mistake of putting themselves before the team? Thanks again for the content, I’m joining the army on an 18x contract but I still watch all your guys stuff, super motivational.
Focusing on your gear or your own interests (food, water, ruck, whatever) when the team has work to do. If you’re all carrying a log- you better be the one carrying the log, not the guy consistently getting out of it. - A
Thank you for starting Ones Ready, I knew nothing about Air Force Special Warfare and this has all been informative and inspiring. I was curious to whether or not I could receive a waiver for color vision, with also being prior service? I can differentiate between red and green with taking other tests, but the Ishihara color test is the one I fail. Are there any alternatives to the Ishihara color test available within the process of earning a shot to go Special Warfare?
Hi Gentleman, thanks again for all you do. Training continues for my son, upper body is there and growing, I try to drown him the pool often to get better water confidence (swim time is there but could be better), the run is now at 10 flat (I want him at 9:30 and under). Sucks to have a Marine dad, just ask him...lol!!! I break out my campaign cover and relive the good old days!!!
@@alec9527 your right, he has to be the one that wants it. I have relegated myself to watching from a distance. As a Marine I tend to want him to push more and I was pushing him harder. I pulled away since I wrote the original statement, and if he passes or fails he does it own his own.
Thanks as always guys for the content/insight! Quick question, 8:57 Aaron mentions 3 minutes of what I’m assuming is in regards to a breath hold. Would that be a good base line to have to be best prepared for A&S/Pre dive/combat dive? Thanks in advance!
So I (Aaron) am less a fan of breath holds/tables and more a fan of being efficient and skilled in the task underwater (knots, underwater, mask and snorkel, etc). If you’re efficient, you don’t need a king breath hold. To your question directly- I was saying we can stress you out much longer on land as opposed to just an underwater event (using 3:00 as a hyperbolic no-data driven guess at the average max breath hold time). -A
The problem with selections are the subjectivity involved. Sometimes first impressions can ruin a guys entire chance/ career... which isn't fair. Peer evals are great but every single peer eval I've done has turned into a gossip flood. It should never be a guy won't say it to his face but tell it to instructors, that itself is a character trait that I can never get behind. Because on a team everything is brought up directly to eachother and it must be that way. I don't agree with peers personally, but courses like them because its believed it's a good metric of data. Can't tell you how many times guys in ranger school would literally get together to peer eachother high and totally peer a guy they don't know out of the program. It's a problem.
This is definitely a different optic than we presented. I appreciate you engaging. Do you think that ‘professional subjectivity’ should be a thing? Is there any selection that’s completely objective? - A
@@OnesReady I think some courses are designed to be objective, but it rarely works out that way which leads me to, YES, I do think to a degree it's necessary from the cadres perspective to be subjective as they're the ones who understand what's on the other side of the curtain. This being the reality of the day to day of the job. HOWEVER, career experiences and philosophy may vary right? I think one of the biggest factors for peers evals is to seek who actually fits in with the community. Again, I think it's a poor way to judge that matter. Integrity is pretty cut and dry, team player, pretty cut and dry.. personal responsibility... easy to judge. All these attributes show during the process regardless. It's frustrating to see the guy on a team with people he doesnt know get cornered into a negative light, and peered out purposely because hes not "in the group". There's that saying, I'd have a beer with this guy, but would never work with him, or I'd never have a beer but I'd work with him. When you give the power to the students to essentially feel like cadre, what you should be paying attention to is abuse of that responsibility. Myself and others have brainstormed alternative solutions for a peer system that we think would be far more effective
Well, we havre covered this a lot. And I see you're spamming the same thing on lots of different videos- the answer is the same. Get good grades. Get some life experience. Get a job, a girlfriend, a heartbreak and a car. We will see you when you're ready. - A
Give me 60 guys like Mike and you can assemble a SOF team that can do anything! So thankful we had guys like him, Farfan, and Mounts leading the A&S change in AFSPECWAR! 🤘🕓
Mother Nature and gravity is powerful. Being able to perform with her picking at your performance will always open eyes
This was an awesome podcast, the info you guys have been putting out lately has been spectacular.
Nice!! Glad to see Mike on here!
Thanks for all these videos guys, a lot of really good info. Mike said something interesting about putting your team before yourself and I’m really curious about what that means situationally during A&S. what are some ways you’ve seen candidates make that mistake of putting themselves before the team? Thanks again for the content, I’m joining the army on an 18x contract but I still watch all your guys stuff, super motivational.
Focusing on your gear or your own interests (food, water, ruck, whatever) when the team has work to do. If you’re all carrying a log- you better be the one carrying the log, not the guy consistently getting out of it. - A
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Thank you for sharing
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Thank you for starting Ones Ready, I knew nothing about Air Force Special Warfare and this has all been informative and inspiring. I was curious to whether or not I could receive a waiver for color vision, with also being prior service? I can differentiate between red and green with taking other tests, but the Ishihara color test is the one I fail. Are there any alternatives to the Ishihara color test available within the process of earning a shot to go Special Warfare?
Hi Gentleman, thanks again for all you do. Training continues for my son, upper body is there and growing, I try to drown him the pool often to get better water confidence (swim time is there but could be better), the run is now at 10 flat (I want him at 9:30 and under). Sucks to have a Marine dad, just ask him...lol!!! I break out my campaign cover and relive the good old days!!!
Take him to the ocean on a family trip and give him a week of enjoying rough water body surfing or boogey boarding to build confidence
Has he done interval workouts yet? Those have dropped my times for run and swim
Let him lead his own progress or he will be stunted/spiteful! Nothing wrong with helping, but make sure they're his goals and not yours.
@@alec9527 your right, he has to be the one that wants it. I have relegated myself to watching from a distance. As a Marine I tend to want him to push more and I was pushing him harder. I pulled away since I wrote the original statement, and if he passes or fails he does it own his own.
Great perspective
Maybe I missed something, but are prep and SWCC the same thing or are they different courses?
Yep, they’re the same. SWCC is the new name.
@@OnesReady thank you so much.
Thanks as always guys for the content/insight! Quick question, 8:57 Aaron mentions 3 minutes of what I’m assuming is in regards to a breath hold. Would that be a good base line to have to be best prepared for A&S/Pre dive/combat dive? Thanks in advance!
So I (Aaron) am less a fan of breath holds/tables and more a fan of being efficient and skilled in the task underwater (knots, underwater, mask and snorkel, etc). If you’re efficient, you don’t need a king breath hold. To your question directly- I was saying we can stress you out much longer on land as opposed to just an underwater event (using 3:00 as a hyperbolic no-data driven guess at the average max breath hold time). -A
During SWIC, are candidates getting feedback on the attributes they are struggling with?
*SWCC, and yep. -A
The problem with selections are the subjectivity involved. Sometimes first impressions can ruin a guys entire chance/ career... which isn't fair. Peer evals are great but every single peer eval I've done has turned into a gossip flood. It should never be a guy won't say it to his face but tell it to instructors, that itself is a character trait that I can never get behind. Because on a team everything is brought up directly to eachother and it must be that way. I don't agree with peers personally, but courses like them because its believed it's a good metric of data. Can't tell you how many times guys in ranger school would literally get together to peer eachother high and totally peer a guy they don't know out of the program. It's a problem.
This is definitely a different optic than we presented. I appreciate you engaging. Do you think that ‘professional subjectivity’ should be a thing? Is there any selection that’s completely objective? - A
@@OnesReady I think some courses are designed to be objective, but it rarely works out that way which leads me to, YES, I do think to a degree it's necessary from the cadres perspective to be subjective as they're the ones who understand what's on the other side of the curtain. This being the reality of the day to day of the job. HOWEVER, career experiences and philosophy may vary right? I think one of the biggest factors for peers evals is to seek who actually fits in with the community. Again, I think it's a poor way to judge that matter. Integrity is pretty cut and dry, team player, pretty cut and dry.. personal responsibility... easy to judge. All these attributes show during the process regardless. It's frustrating to see the guy on a team with people he doesnt know get cornered into a negative light, and peered out purposely because hes not "in the group". There's that saying, I'd have a beer with this guy, but would never work with him, or I'd never have a beer but I'd work with him. When you give the power to the students to essentially feel like cadre, what you should be paying attention to is abuse of that responsibility. Myself and others have brainstormed alternative solutions for a peer system that we think would be far more effective
I am a high-school student and I want to know what I should do now to prepare to become a pararescue jumper.
Well, we havre covered this a lot. And I see you're spamming the same thing on lots of different videos- the answer is the same. Get good grades. Get some life experience. Get a job, a girlfriend, a heartbreak and a car. We will see you when you're ready. - A
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