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A team of active duty Combat Control (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), and Special Reconnaissance (SR) leveraging our 69 years of special operations experience to make the next generation of operators smarter, faster and stronger than we ever were. We are the PREMIERE resource for all things Air Force Special Warfare. The Ones Ready Podcast is honest talk about what it is like to go from a know-nothing high school graduate to an elite Special Operator. We will cover important practices for success including physical training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset traits essential to any team. Join us in The Team Room to get all your questions answered!! With battle-tested operators from across USAF SPECWAR and far-reaching web of recruiters, subject matter experts, and friends, there are no questions we can’t answer- and if we can’t, we know exactly where to look. See you in The Team Room!Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the OnesReady team are those of the team and do not reflect the official policy or position of the DoD. Any content provided by our Podcast guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign the DoD, any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone.
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Ops Brief 079: Daily Drop - 23 July 2025 (The Pentagon Spent What on a Space Blimp?)
Peaches is back with another scathing ops brief—this time dragging the DoD for everything from mystery missiles and “indefinite quantity” contracts (yeah, that’s real) to billion-dollar Iron Dome knockoffs. From Space Force promotions to “near-miss” B-52s and the Pentagon handing OpenAI a $200M AI war chest, this episode dives deep into the weird, the wild, and the “we’re definitely not overfunded” chaos of 2025. Also: the real reason the Air Force hit their recruiting goals early (spoiler: they didn’t). Oh, and yes, Tim Kennedy's name comes up... brace yourselves.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
- 💥 The Air Force buys 75 tankers without even pretending to hold a competition
- 🛰️ Space Force doing 61 launches and still trying to look busy
- 🧃 Creatine gummies now count as warfighting prep
- 📉 “Indefinite delivery” contracts sound more like wishful thinking
- 🫡 Recruiting goals met... after someone moved the goalpost
- 🏆 Congressional medals for civilians? Depends who you ask
- 💸 $175B for a golden space umbrella that probably still gets hacked
- 🚨 Tim Kennedy’s Afghan hero arc gets put under the Ones Ready microscope
- 🤖 OpenAI signs up to build Skynet, DoD just shrugs
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – Special Warfare training isn’t a smoke session (unless you're a jerk)
01:30 – Operator Training Summit preview: Nashville’s heating up
03:00 – Joint Ops Rundown: Talisman Sabre, China in Africa, and more
05:00 – Special Ops in Chile and humanitarian flex in the Dominican Republic
06:45 – B-52 near miss? Delta pilot says yes, Peaches has questions
08:30 – Air Force dumps money into tankers, then brags about saving money
10:00 – WTF is an “indefinite delivery indefinite quantity” contract?
12:30 – The shady math behind “recruiting goals met early”
14:30 – Canada takes over Space Force? Kind of
16:00 – Medal of Honor drama and the Tim Kennedy circus
18:00 – Missile umbrellas, orbital comms, and national security tariffs
20:00 – Peaches signs off and pushes the merch drop
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