Ops Brief 049: Daily Drop - 20 May 2025 (Bonus Cuts & PCS Chao)

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

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Send us a text In this extended Daily Drop, Jared unleashes a tactical nuke of sarcasm on the Pentagon’s parade of WTF decisions. From billion-dollar contracts imploding to Airmen stuck in retirement limbo, it’s clear nobody’s steering this defense dumpster fire. Cyber Command wants to be SOCOM now (because that worked so well before), troops can’t move because the PCS fairy ran out of money, and SpaceX is somehow our last hope in space. Also: PFAS water, political drama, and Congress failing...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.4	Hey everybody, welcome back to the One's Ready podcast.
0:10.0	This is your daily drop for the 20th of May.
0:12.8	I told you I'd give you a double helping, so that's what this is.
0:15.9	It's going to be a longer one, and I've got to try and speed through it because I've got a meeting in 30 minutes.
0:20.6	But for now, if you're new here, no ad read, this is the news that gets curated by the Department of the Air Force Public Affairs and gets sent out on a daily basis.
0:32.3	And then I'm going to give it to you here and give you any kind of insider baseball or opinions based on them.
0:39.7	So here we go, starting with the joint news.
0:41.9	And like I said, this is a double helping.
0:44.3	Defense Secretary Pete Hickseth named Coca-Cola 600 Grand Marshal.
0:48.5	Defense Secretary Pete Hick-Seth will serve as the Grand Marshal for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
0:53.4	Motor Speedway, an event held annually before Memorial Day.
0:57.5	Hick-Seth, who attended in 2022, highlighted its role as a tribute to military service and sacrifice.
1:04.1	Have no idea why that even made public affair news.
1:07.5	Like, what's the point of that?
1:09.7	DoD working on cyber warfare scorecards,
1:13.9	cyber warfighter scorecards for COCOMs, weapon systems.
1:18.6	Co-coms are combatant commanders.
1:21.5	So think Central Command or Centcom, Pacific Command or PAC, paycom, that kind of stuff.
1:29.2	The Defense Department is developing cybersecurity scorecards to assess vulnerabilities
1:33.5	in weapons systems across combatant commands.
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