Ops Brief 064: Daily Drop - 23 June 2025 (Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER & China's Buying Our Secrets)

Ones Ready

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

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

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Strap in, because this Daily Drop drops bombs—literally. Jared’s back from the San Diego Operator Training Summit and immediately diving into the nuclear circus known as Operation Midnight Hammer—the largest B-2 strike in U.S. history. We’re talking 125+ aircraft, deception ops worthy of Hollywood, and a casual flex on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But don’t worry, the Pentagon swears it’s not “regime change.” Also in this episode: CENTCOM’s tanker games, shady KC-135 logisti...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.4	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast.
0:10.5	This is your daily drop for the 23rd of June.
0:15.0	Just a heads up, we just finished up a kick-ass operator training summit in San Diego.
0:21.4	So kudos and a thanks to all those that joined us out there
0:25.4	and to all our sponsors that helped out in terms of hoist, drinkhoist.com.
0:32.2	We also have modern athlete strength system that helped out.
0:36.6	And then we had 18 Alpha Fitness that helped out.
0:40.3	And we had CardoMax that helped out.
0:43.4	So we definitely appreciate it.
0:45.0	And then shout out to, I'll know I'm going to mess up the name already,
0:48.7	but Coggin or Cogan Aquatic Complex in La Jolla.
0:53.1	You guys absolutely crush it. You guys are absolutely crushing.
0:54.6	You guys have got a phenomenal facility and some great staff.
0:58.6	So on to the news.
1:02.6	We're going to start with Joint News.
1:04.2	Operation Midnight Hammer overview.
1:06.8	Operation Midnight Hammer, a U.S. military strike on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities, involved over 125 aircraft, including B-2 spirit bombers, and was executed with precision to maintain surprise.
1:21.5	Joint Chiefs Chairman General David Kane, or Dan Kane, sorry, described it as a complex mission aimed at degrading Iran's
1:30.7	nuclear weapons infrastructure. Now, all you're hearing about is the B-2s, right? You're not hearing
1:37.3	about all the tankers, all the fighters that went over there to help out with all the mobility
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