Ops Brief 114: Daily Drop - 22 Dec 2025 - Military News, AI Nonsense & V-22 Drama

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 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Just Peaches in the team room for a straight-up Daily Drop—no guests, no fluff, no pretending this is anything other than a military news brain dump with commentary. He rips through the latest Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force headlines, calls out public affairs stories that say nothing, breaks down AI hype in the DoD, reacts to V-22 updates, joint exercises, NATO tech, recruiting wins, Space Force moves, and why interoperability is still hard as hell. This...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	One's ready.
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:09.0	It is an attributes-based selection model.
0:11.0	What does that mean?
0:13.0	Guys, aren't we running right now to get thinner?
0:15.0	We're practicing, Robbie.
0:16.0	Practicing.
0:17.0	Right?
0:18.0	I can't freaking...
0:20.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:22.6	The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.
0:26.6	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.
0:43.3	We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection, 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're to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into. Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run. I can drug the key slur just like this. All the way to the HECD you never quit. All the way to the HECD you never quit. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Ons Ready podcast. You're in the team room.
1:11.0	Just me today.
1:12.2	And I think we're going to do more of a daily drop today.
1:14.6	I know that we missed, you know, dropping something today as in Monday the 22nd of December.
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