Ops Brief 053: Daily Drop - 2 June 2025 (We’re Not Winning in Africa & Space Is a Mess)

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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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Send us a text In this chaotic return to the Daily Drop, Jared barrels through a no-holds-barred rundown of DOD chaos, diplomatic double-speak, and the ongoing clown show in space. The Pentagon’s trying to win hearts and minds in Somalia with airstrikes, Space Force is low-key getting circled by Russian sats, and we’re hoping AI can save Indopaycom’s wargames. Spoiler: it won’t. Jared dives into all of it — including the Thunderbirds doc that actually slapped (yes, really), privatized base ho...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.4	Hey everybody, welcome back to your Daily Drop 4 to June.
0:12.0	Hopefully we're back for the long run now.
0:14.5	I know that we kind of missed some days in there,
0:17.4	but Public Affairs wasn't updating their website,
0:20.2	so we didn't really have
0:21.1	anywhere to go.
0:22.6	So I need to come up with another solution so that I'm not relying on them.
0:27.1	But I just want to give you the information that everybody else is getting within the Air Force.
0:33.2	So before we get into that, though, we do have one more slot available for the Operator Training Summit in San Diego coming up this June, 21 and 22. One slot left. So if you are interested, email us at J-A-R-E-D at Wondready.com or leave a comment with your email, and then we can get you added to the chat chain
0:55.3	so that you can, or the text group or whatever you want to call it,
0:59.3	and that way you can secure your spot,
1:01.1	and we'll give you all the details and everything like that.
1:03.4	So, all right, moving on.
1:05.6	This is the joint news.
1:07.7	Defense Secretary addresses China at Shangri-La. There we're going to start right off the bat.
1:16.4	Defense Secretary P. Hexeth announced at the U.S. military response to China's expansion in the Indo-Pacific
1:22.3	during the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. He emphasized the U.S. commitment to the region and plans to enhance cooperation
1:33.3	to counter Chinese aggression, particularly in the South China Sea and Taiwan.
1:38.9	Man, I'm going to work on my articulation right now.
1:41.6	You guys are struggling through this with me.
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