The first couple days of EMT school they drilled into our heads over and over, "You are SUPPOSED to fail here. It's our job to MAKE YOU fail here, so you don't get someone killed for real." Sounds dramatic, yeah, but everyone did end up "killing" at least one patient when we started doing hands-on skills/scenarios--either through ignorance or sloppy mistakes. But with every catastrophe came an excellent debrief and an amazing opportunity to discuss in-depth with our medic instructors. Definitely agree with everything you guys said...fail fast, fail forward, and be brutally honest about every failure. No excuses, not to yourself, not to your team, not to the instructors. Never settle!

Thanks for sharing, guys. As someone who tends to be really hard on himself, this was super encouraging.

I went through SERE selection at 18 years old. I did not have the leadership qualities needed for the carrier field and ended up not getting selected. I sat on that failure for almost 2 years and was incredibly salty in the maintenance world. I finally had a revaluation a few months back as a new SSgt that I need to get my shit together and go back Madena and go to the SR selection. When I get to my new base in February I am going to continue working on my endurance and apply for NCORP and get in there. I appreciate all the motivating words and the information on the new special warfare selection.

3am grind

This video is wildly underrated. thank y’all for the outstanding content helping me motivate and self correct in areas that I’m hurting. Especially dealing with failure.

Distress, Eustress are important parts of life. Knowing yourself deeply and moving forward always. Life long learning and preparedness are good life skills. Keep this up guys. Great messages

I’ve been watching yall’s videos for a couple months in anticipation of trying to take on an AFSOC career and I gotta say, this one put my mind at ease the most. A shit ton of what yall are saying here is good advice for life in general. Learning to embrace the hardships and critically analyze your failures is the most efficient way to grow in anything. Appreciate the advice, keep doin what you’re doing and P.S. hoping to see a black operator up here sooner or later speaking on their experience. Regardless of any identity politics one may or may not believe in, from the outside looking in, I often wonder if there are any in AFSOC. Not saying you gotta have the tough talks, but seeing that would definitely dispel a lot of fears, inspire a shit ton of young men like myself who wanna do this and moreover, prove that ANY American walk of life CAN do it, given they put the work in. ✌🏽

Thanks for doing the pod guys, tons of great info. Really appreciate it

This is something I needed to hear in life, not just for selection.

"It's not how many times you get knocked down. It's whether you get back up." Vince Lombardi

Single handedly my favorite episode thus far

Great advice definitely worth watching till the end

Another solid video! Thanks for the mentorship gentlemen. 🤘🏼

Damn... he really brought up that saints no call.. I almost finally let it go... almost

Just failed selection, this helped alot

Loving the channel guys binge watching all the videos you guys should touch a little on the prep course plan on trying this year

good content, thanks

Good, quality content, sirs. I've been thinking about this for awhile and if grad school doesn't workout I think I have a contingency plan. I just don't want to be one of those people that say they'll enlist and then don't do it in their lifetime. Really do appreciate these videos. I posted in a previous video/podcast but will you guys be doing a video for how one can get into AFSPECWAR when they're slightly older? (25+). Thank you gentlemen a ton for your service and the dedication you put into this channel.

A request, Ik history isn’t y’all’s specialty but could you go over Eagle Claw and it’s effects.

I was supposed to go enlist this year and try to get a high score for SR but my mother decided that i should stay and study in college now im glad that i have 3 years to prepare, could have used this year to prepare a little more besides saturday soccer but at least i have 3 years, thanks for everything guys!!

Since yall do mostly enlisted jobs,i was wondering if yall could talk about STO's,CRO's and TACP since not many people talk about these roles in the airforce

Not sure if I have the time to watch this entire thing, but you remember when you learned how to ride a bike and you went over a curb landing on your hands, crashed into the smelly dumpster trying to take off while holding onto it for dear life, push rolled yourself off and found your balance with overwhelming joy only to fall over because you forgot to pedal... That's failing. It's not supposed to complicated - We just make it that way as we grow older and think we know more to justify forgetting the actual simplicity of life or trying to impress people so we don't have to feel inferior to them. Now someone might have jumped on and just took off... Someone might have seriously injured themselves and went to the hospital... Some select others are physically incapable of learning to ride a bike because they were born without the physical ability to do so. Everyone has their own experience and individual circumstances. Ultimately, how bad did you want to learn to ride that bike? Personally, as a boy that grew up in a low income complex, that bike represented friendship with other kids, it represented the ability to travel further and faster in the world than I could go on my legs, and it represented more freedom to be a kid and grow. It was EVERYTHING to me at that very moment. There was no past or future. There was only that moment. Either I was gonna ride, or I was gonna fall down and get back up again.. And again... And again... Until I was riding that bike. There was no alternative. The majority of people though - Learned how to ride a bike after multiple falls, pain, fear, and tears. This is absolutely no different than anything else you REALLY care about in life. You're going to feel these same emotions, you're going to fall, and you're gonna have to deal with a little pain. You knew how to deal with failure as a kid because your focus and desire to grow far surpassed your personal insecurities, comfort, and mental excuses. You should envy people that have failed so much in life they have never forgotten it. But, if you've never dealt with it or have lived your life trying to avoid it, it's time to go do something worth failing at. Failure is only permanent if you QUIT - the refusal to get back up and try again. As for failing indoc.... Do you mean telling me I'm gonna have to use the experience I gained to go prepare more, come back stronger, and possibly help lead or inspire others with that knowledge in a few years while I focus on learning and improving myself as a person every day? Or do you mean holding onto it in the present, trying to reason the past, and making excuses for the future until I put myself down as a person every mention of it, fear it more than when I actually went through it, and never ever want to attempt it again? You have the power to decide which way to look at it, but the reality of the matter is that one is failing and the other is quitting.

Guys.. it’s 3 in the morning. I’m not going to watch this.

😂 Many laughs. Good stuff! Thank you.

Thank you for this. I’m at Medina right now.

Random question.. Is it possible to be a CCT in the air national guard?

Sgt. Silva, Ditch-n-Don -- brutal but over quickly?

What is the difference between PJs assigned to AFSOC/STS and ACC/RQS?

"Scared the shit out of the cow." Literally. 😂 I jump in Wisconsin...the dairy state...now I will have this in mind sitting in the plane...oh, crap. ✈ 🌂 🐄 💩 #onesready NOT helping... 😜

Hey I'm 17 probably a dumb question, but i want to know if i can begin the pipeline straight out of boot camp? And if i ask my recruiter about this mos it will be widely available??

Peaches is correct my fear of failure keeps me pushing to really get my selection numbers up for the ift i.e waking up @ 3 am to condition your body for hard workouts early on no food it sucks but I am after something that is bigger than myself I would expect to fail learn then move forward

I'm older 28 turning 29 here in 6 months and really want to enlist and try for TACP/JTAC. A little background: I have one semester of college left, but I failed out academically. Ive had some persona trials and tribulations in my life that caught up with me and got me off track. I've since dealt with these things but going back to school isn't an option any longer financially speaking. I've played sports all my life and was a D2 college football athlete, but that was some time ago. I am a little worried that being older that I physically won't be able to handle this. I'm not in bad shape but I'm not in completing indoc shape. I have a couple creaks in my shoulders and knees but I've never been injured in any regard. Am I wasting my time? Should I just consider another AFSC/career in the Airforce? I like the idea of Special Warfare because it's a combination of brains and brawn. I don't really want to sit behind a desk all day long and I don't want to waste time in the Army sweeping floors 90% of the time and doing things that don't matter just to be in a combat MOS. Ive watched a lot of your videos and looked over literature, but I haven't been able to speak to anyone whose actually done this. My recruiter didn't go through any of this he's just a recruiter.

Just found out that not having color vision is not waiverable. feelin crushed.

58:50 sorry I’m ignorant. But he actually shot shot his own partner? Like killed???? (Or I hope it was airsoft)

Dealing with failure? You mean being filled with bitter anger and self-resentment and working out such that you push away all your friends until your crosstrain window opens up?

After my own AF military service, 1 of these AF Spec Ops instructors specifically appears openly combative in conversations w/his peers (all 3 of which have a clear humanistic quality during their their own qualifications & indoc instructor actions of others qualifying under them). But repeated KZfaq stories among these 4, yield 1 clearly separatting from separating other 3 by his own self dominance in many quals/instructor of quals in the pipeline displaying something just shy of a God-complex & so disguised that his peers often let it slide vs. calling him on his shit, or admitting that's not the same height of stressful physical demand they experienced with their instructors at whatever sections in the pipeline. They let his ego slide & it's obvious to even the least experienced Pjs Combat Contollers, etc & they are smart to just let him go off on his tangents. Any remotely God-complex'd instructors, even at these levels, best serve the US @ the Olympics vs. in roles of teaching & molding qualifiable AF specOps AFSCs, as instructors who demand applicants exceed not only AF expectations, but also meet or exceed those of the instructor. That just doesn't float right in anyone's eyes & this 1 guy (as well as the other 3) knows who he is. I'd let it slide but after multiple online smash sessions, it's verifiable that his sh*t stinks as much as the next guy's does. After my 6 yrs AF, I was hired by a PD that demanded its rookies be trained @ the state police academy of a major state, vs. the other academies that where more university or law focuses, despite all these guys coming in with degrees. The academy failed by trying to get recruits to outrun the speed of radios or bullets, when body armor covers that & the instructors of cadets & recruits should have been focusing on methodical responses to every type of call for police service. These Troopers ran those 10 weeks differently after the US Marines came to & advised them on training in their program. Physical training was great for civilian trainees, but instructors had lists of prior military guys & as E-5s with Bachelor Degrees, we preferred instruction on how our departments wanted us to respond to service calls, not train us to run 7 miles of survival training that troopers need to stress, but local police don't need, as back up our city units on scene in seconds. Sure trooper cadets wait forever for backup, but why the hell did this State Academy slack off on ultimate best practice response on each type of call to police? They were only training their own for Hwy control survival & arrest of offenders. I ranked #1 of 50 recruits in my class & never knew it until local police Sgts supervising our subunits for the Trooper in Charge (aka TI). So it tells me most of these 50 guys in residential training (like BMT) were failing at command presence & scene response. Many had BA/BS degrees before their Depts sent them to the state academy, b4 better academies, like the smarter (FBI academies) of the state. Even worse, was how badly FTOs assumed the State Academy had taught us the procedural & physiological responses to each call for alleged offenses. FTOs didn't know we hadn't had emergency veh training or specific procedural response to specific calls for service training & so docked us for it. We know, if you're not properly trained for something, you can't be held to the gold standard, as so that's the essential true job of an FTO. This pissed me off to no end, as all my cousins are/were fmr military and/or law enforcement. Training & Quals must be more surgically specific vs. tough for the hell of it/or sloppy instructors. This academy leaves Trooper State police enforcement to training of new guys to specific law enf. training courses/CSI/SERT. More of it must be known by line officers b/c they Practice it for 4 yrs (surveillance, CSI, interships, etc) earning a BA that all should begin with...including Air Force personnel who expect to make E5/NCOs.