Ops Brief 121: Daily Drop - 2 Feb 2026 - Army Recruiting, Trump-Class Ships, and Russian Space Shrapnel

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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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and moves fast through recruiting wins, force readiness, and why some headlines deserve side-eye. From the Army smashing recruiting goals and Fort Stewart gunnery training to debates over the Trump-class battleship, carrier flight ops, and Marines earning lifesaving awards off duty, this episode balances news with blunt commentary. Peaches also dives into Air Force leadership travel, the YFQ-48 Alpha designation, Coast Guard infrastruc...

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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, are 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.
0:19.0	Freaking.
0:20.0	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for the instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output and everything is for a reason
0:29.4	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet everything that we do every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do
0:39.3	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 should show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
0:55.0	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
0:58.0	I can run a key sloom just like this.
1:02.0	All the way to the HECC never quit.
1:05.0	All the way to ACC never quit.
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