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Ops Brief 051: Daily Drop - 22 May 2025 (PCS Meltdowns, Drone Strikes & Budget Lies)
If today’s Pentagon brief were a movie, it’d be a dark comedy with no budget and a glitchy drone trying to play hero. Jared returns with another savage rundown of everything broken in military bureaucracy—from the $18B PCS debacle to the Air Force accidentally playing bumper cars with drones mid-flight.
We’re talking Space Force funding so bad it’s practically space homelessness, transgender policy whiplash, B-21 bombers being bought like Costco bulk snacks, and a DoD so addicted to credit it’d make Congress blush. Add in China flexing its missile game and our response being “eh, maybe 145 bombers will fix it,” and you’ve got today’s briefing.
This episode’s got radar bombs, hurricane hunters, lost civilian jobs, and a new Air Force Secretary who hopefully doesn’t suck at graduation speeches.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
- 📦 PCS program gets another overhaul—because setting fire to $18B wasn’t enough.
- 💔 Over half of military spouses hate PCS moves. Welcome to the suck.
- ✂️ DISA slashes 10% of its workforce… because who needs secure comms anyway?
- ✈️ Air Force might buy 145 B-21s. No worries, it’s only the price of a small country.
- 💥 Minuteman III ICBM launch reminds enemies (and Congress) we still got the juice.
- ❄️ Alaska’s getting a new training center—virtual murder in the snow, coming 2029.
- 🎓 New SecAF to speak at USAFA graduation. Fingers crossed it’s not a snoozefest.
- 🌪️ Hurricane Hunters are back to fly into hell for science. Mad respect.
- 🇮🇷 F-15s to Diego Garcia for Iran flexing. Power projection 101.
- 🛸 F-16 hit by drone in training. Not Ukraine. Arizona.
- 🚫 Space Force gets 3% of the DoD budget. That’s not underfunded. That’s criminal.
- 🛰️ NGA & Space Force try to not step on each other’s ISR toes.
- 🧾 Military IDs now count as Real ID for travel—cool, but about time.
- ⚖️ House Dems drop a bill to protect transgender troops.
- 🖼️ 2,000 museums are free for military families. Take your kids before we cut funding.
- 🪖 Governors fight Space Force personnel transfers like it's a custody battle.
- 🇨🇳 China’s jet & missile game? It's real, and it’s coming fast.
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