Ops Brief 087: Daily Drop - 12 Aug 2025 - Washington’s on Fire & Cyber Ninjas are Scary

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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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches kicks off this drop swinging at everything from the chaos in D.C. to the ridiculous idea that military academies ever needed race-based admissions. National Guard troops are back in the capital because apparently it’s become Mad Max with monuments. Cyber interns get a salute for their terrifyingly cool hacking skills, a World War I badass gets long-overdue recognition, and Space Force is about to light off the Vulcan rocket like it’s the Fourth of July. There’s also s...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	All right!
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:09.0	It's an attributes-based selection model. What does that mean?
0:13.0	Guys, are we running right now to get better than we're practicing running?
0:16.0	Practicing.
0:17.0	Right? I can't.
0:19.0	Freaking.
0:20.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:23.6	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:27.6	And everything is for a reason.
0:29.6	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do,
0:32.6	every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do. We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,
0:43.3	whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
0:47.3	I don't care what they call it.
0:49.3	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
0:55.9	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.9	I can run a key, sir, just like this.
1:01.8	All the way to the HECC, you never quit.
1:04.8	All the way to ACC, you never quit.
1:07.9	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Wednesday podcast.
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