Ops Brief 051: Daily Drop - 22 May 2025 (PCS Meltdowns, Drone Strikes & Budget Lies)

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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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Send us a text If today’s Pentagon brief were a movie, it’d be a dark comedy with no budget and a glitchy drone trying to play hero. Jared returns with another savage rundown of everything broken in military bureaucracy—from the $18B PCS debacle to the Air Force accidentally playing bumper cars with drones mid-flight. We’re talking Space Force funding so bad it’s practically space homelessness, transgender policy whiplash, B-21 bombers being bought like Costco bulk snacks, and a DoD so addict...

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0:00.0	Once ready?
0:03.2	Go!
0:06.8	Welcome back to the Wednesday podcast.
0:08.8	This is your daily drop for the 22nd of May.
0:11.8	We still have one slot remaining now for an operator training summit that's happening in San
0:16.4	Diego, 21 and 22 June.
0:19.2	Please join us out there.
0:21.2	We'd love to have you think of
0:23.0	instructorship, mentorship.
0:24.4	We're going to give you 12 hours in the pool
0:26.1	to work your ass over and mold you
0:28.5	into something that you need to be
0:31.5	in order to be successful in the pipeline.
0:33.3	And it's not going to guarantee to graduate
0:34.6	because we do that.
0:35.8	But it at least gives you the tools and properly equipes you to better handle those stresses that are going to be thrown at you in the pipeline.
0:46.0	All right.
0:47.4	This is the news that is curated from public affairs at the Department of the Air Force level and sent out to, well, it's on the
0:57.9	public affairs page. So I basically take that, throw the six, seven page document through
1:05.5	AI and then have it give me the gist of each topic. And then I'll read it out to you and we'll see if we have any opinions or insider baseball.
1:15.7	All right next, or first up, joint news. Changes to the PCS moving program, defense secretary Pete Hexeth ordered immediate modifications to the troubled household goods program, including a
1:29.9	review of moving rates under the global household goods contract. I think we talked about this
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