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Ones Ready

Ops Brief 045: Daily Drop - 13 May 2025 (Budget Cuts and Bobsleds)

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

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Send us a text Today’s Ones Ready daily drop is live, chaotic, and absolutely unfiltered. Peaches is back with the May 13th Pentagon dumpster fire, bringing you face-to-face with the DoD’s awkward puberty phase—complete with budget panic, stop-loss PTSD flashbacks, anti-satellite power moves, and the government realizing maybe it should let junior officers make some decisions. Also: cannon fodder for Cannon AFB (again), HIMARS over Taiwan, and a real-life Olympian joining the Air Force after ...

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0:00.0

One's ready.

0:03.1

Go!

0:06.8

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Wednesday podcast.

0:09.8

This is your daily drop for the 13th of May.

0:14.2

Doing it in person this time.

0:16.3

That's a little new instead of doing it, you know, on a, you know, what I actually use is a DJI microphones,

0:25.1

little wireless microphones.

0:26.5

And I'm in the office or I go out into my car and I do the recordings real quick while I got a quick break.

0:33.4

And I am, in fact, still working today.

0:35.5

But I figured that I would hop on here real quick

0:38.3

during my lunch break just to give you guys the daily drop.

0:42.3

So if you knew here, what this is, is the Department of the Air Force curates a – the

0:49.3

Department of Air Force Public Affairs curates a list of news articles that they send out to commanders

0:55.2

and chiefs. However, finding out yesterday that apparently not everybody is on that, so maybe I'm

1:00.5

lucky or whatever. But, um, so I'll just keep being lucky, I guess, for now until they decide

1:06.7

to stop sending this. And then I actually got to put in some real work in to get you guys the news.

1:12.3

But before that, we have four slots left for the Operator Training Summit that's coming up

1:18.2

21 and 22 June in San Diego, four slots left. And I think I let five or six more people into the chat today.

1:28.7

So if you are interested, there are still spots.

1:33.8

You know, just because the way you secure it is not by joining the chat.

1:39.3

Payment is what secures your spot.

1:42.5

And then once we have, once we hit 40, that's it.

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