Ops Brief 002: Daily Drop - 4 March 2025

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Another day, another disaster. In this hard-hitting Ops Brief, Peaches rips through the latest Air Force and Pentagon insanity, from F-35 budget gymnastics to disappearing defense funds and why no one can seem to count taxpayer dollars. 🔥 The F-35 just hit 1 million flight hours—cool, but at what cost? 🔥 Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense—genius move or bureaucratic nightmare? 🔥 Pentagon can’t pass an audit for the 7th straight year—where’s the money going? 🔥 Military bean c...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:01.0	All right.
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	Go!
0:04.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Daily Drop.
0:09.0	This is your news for 4 March 2025.
0:13.0	As stated before, this is the news that the commanders and the chiefs receive every single day.
0:19.0	It's on the unclassified level, so you don't have to worry about that. Before we get started, though, head over to drinkhoist.com.
0:26.0	Use the promo code ones ready. Get yourself some IV level hydration. They just
0:30.3	released this flavor and a lot of the proceeds are going to flags of honor. So donating to a good
0:36.3	cause and your support at drink hoist.com.
0:39.2	promo code when you're ready.
0:40.5	Now on to the news.
0:43.0	F-35 hits one million flight hours as price rise stays below inflation.
0:48.1	Air and Space Forces released on 3 March 2025.
0:52.8	The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's unit price will come in below the pace of inflation.
0:57.9	Lockheed Martin F-35 General Manager Chauncey McIntosh said during the AFA World Warfare
1:04.7	Symposium Monday.
1:06.5	The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed reached a, quote, handshake deal on the most recent lot of
1:14.0	145 aircraft for 11.8 billion in November. Oh, those are big boy numbers. The JPO or JPO officials
1:24.1	said they would announce the F-35 unit cost when the contract is finalized,
1:29.1	which is expected to be the second quarter of this year.
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