Ops Brief 127: Daily Drop - 17 Feb 2026 - Army Honeypots, Ship Collisions, & UAPs

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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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches runs a solo Daily Drop Ops Brief and this one’s got everything: an Army Futures and Concepts Command elevation, a retired colonel sentenced for sharing classified war plans with a honeypot, and a battalion leader getting four years for secretly recording guests. The Navy manages to collide two ships in the Caribbean, debates doubling ship procurement, and asks for historic funding levels—while the Pentagon eyes a $1.6 trillion defense budget increase. A Marine is decl...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:01.0	Pointing!
0:02.0	Go!
0:03.0	One, two, two, two, two, two, two, a two, grind every day grind every day yeah we aim for the stars feet on the ground but our heads are our
0:34.9	mass visions the glory sweat on our skin we craft our heads of our mars, visions of glory, sweat on our skin.
0:38.3	We craft our story, determined to win.
0:41.2	We the Titans with hearts untamed.
0:43.7	We face the giants in this battling game.
0:46.4	Our dreams are loud, echoes of them remain.
0:49.1	We stand as one heading for the Hall of Fame.
0:51.3	We chase the lights till the final whistle.
0:54.3	We'll leave it when we say we never settle. We chase the lights to the final whistle. Believe it when we say we never settle.
0:56.9	We chase the lights to the final whistle.
0:59.7	Believe it when we say we never settled.
1:02.2	We did it.
1:03.0	We did it.
1:03.6	We did it.
1:04.3	We did it.
1:04.3	Hey, everybody.
1:05.5	Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast.
1:07.2	This is your daily drop for the 17th of February.
1:10.7	Guys, we have, let's see, three days until the Operator Training Summit for University of Alabama closes.
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