Ops Brief 024: Daily Drop - 9 April 2025 ($2.1 Trillion Jet, a Paper Tiger, & a Government That Can’t Budget)

Ones Ready

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

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

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Send us a text In today's spicy drop, Peaches' back after a one-day hiatus—sorry not sorry—and he’s coming in hotter than a Chinese stealth jet built entirely out of stolen parts. From the Pentagon reclaiming Panama like it's 1914, to the US Space Force asking for scraps while trying to refuel space warships mid-orbit, this one’s got everything: geopolitical hot takes, budget rants, and even a shoutout to F-15Es babysitting the Pacific while we wait for the F-15EXs to show up fashionably late...

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0:00.0	Wands Ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:06.9	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Wins Ready podcast.
0:09.2	This is your daily drop for the 9th of April, brought to you by barbell apparel.com.
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0:33.6	They have workout shorts, graphic t's, polos, dress shirts, everything that you possibly need to make you, you are looking tight.
0:42.8	All right.
0:43.5	Now, I missed you guys yesterday on the news, so I do apologize for that.
0:49.3	And if you're new here, this is the news that gets curated from public affairs and then pushed
0:54.1	out to all of the Air Force commanders and chiefs.
0:58.6	So I have condensed these, or rather I've used AI to condense these because each one
1:05.0	of these is like full-on articles.
1:07.4	And then I'll kind of give you an insider take if I have it or maybe my opinion on it.
1:13.0	So, all right, first, this is joint news.
1:17.3	Defense Secretary declared that the U.S. will reclaim control of the Panama Canal from Chinese influence, strengthening ties with Panama.
1:25.3	Panamanian officials denied excessive Chinese sway,
1:28.8	but recently exited China's Belt and Road Initiative.
1:32.5	They probably got screwed over by China's Belt and Road Initiative
1:35.4	because that was a complete shit show.
1:38.4	And if you're tracking anything that they were doing,
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