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Ops Brief 131: Daily Drop - 26 Feb 2026 - Warrant Officer Bonus “Bidding" & Mobility Crisis

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail This Daily Drop is all movement, no filler. The Army is doubling down on its auction-style warrant officer retention bonus experiment. Market-driven talent management? Maybe. Hunger Games for CW5s? Also maybe. At the same time, lessons from Ukraine are reshaping armored warfare training, drone integration, and electronic warfare acquisition speed. The Navy installs a new Submarine Force Atlantic commander and rehearses an anti-ship strike with a B-2 off California. Targeting ...

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0:00.0

One's ready?

0:01.0

Point a certain.

0:02.0

Go!

0:03.0

Yeah, I wasn't born to be average.

0:09.0

I was born to be extraordinary, so I gotta pull the trigger, doing everything that's necessary.

0:14.0

Sometimes it gets scary, and sometimes it get lonely, but I still gotta push through.

0:19.0

I gotta craft and I will hone it.

0:20.0

And all the damn one I own me, but I'm craft and I will hone it and all the damn

0:21.0

wanna own me but I'm not their blade I'm an independent powerhouse and I will stare him

0:25.7

in the face and I'll take what it's mine that start to think I'm insane to look at me like

0:30.4

I'm crazy but I don't care of any way I'm just really doing what I got to do and I got no plan to quit

0:35.7

so I just gotta keep rocking and you know that's what it is every shot that I do, and I got no plan to quit, so I just gotta keep rocking, and you know, that's what it is.

0:38.3

Every shot that I do not take, I am guaranteed to miss, so I better grab that rifle and start lining up the hits. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the One's Ready podcast.

1:13.1

This is your daily drop for the 26th of February, brought to you by TastyGains.com.

1:18.2

If you go to Tastigains.com, you will get a chance to purchase some creatine gummies.

1:24.8

They make them for adults.

1:25.9

They make them for kids.

1:26.8

They make them for women. They also make special gummies just for women. And then neutropics, which you guys already know because I always talk about it. The neutropics are badass. As somebody who can't take, you know, like riddling and an an arrow and stuff like that, these neutropics are the next best thing. check them out tastygains.com all right kicking

1:47.0

things off with the army warrant officer retention bonus auction we talked about this yesterday

1:52.6

but the army is shifting from a fixed retention bonus to an auction style system in which senior

1:58.2

warrant officers bid for their own bonuses.

2:03.7

I still want to know how this is going to work out,

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