Ops Brief 047: Daily Drop - 15 May 2025 (Air Force Axes Bonuses While Ducks Shoot Down Jets)

Send us a text In today's savage May 15th Daily Drop, Jared delivers a glorious roast of Air Force bureaucracy, tone-deaf budgeting, and defense priorities so backwards you'd think they were developed by a Magic 8 Ball. Retention bonuses? Gone. Your SRB? Vamoosed. But hey, at least the Pentagon hired a guy from Uber to help us with hypersonics and laser beams, right? From billion-dollar drone dogfights to literal ducks taking down million-dollar F-16s (no, seriously), this episode is a spicy mix of fiscal disaster, misplaced priorities, and hot takes on why the F-47 probably won’t fly before your next retirement ceremony. We hit Pentagon hotline failures (you had one job), Space Force begging for data funds, and some spicy chatter about China’s jets being slightly better than India’s flying museum pieces. Also, there’s a plot to bomb an Army base using drones and Molotovs… because of course there is. If you love chaos, caffeine, and calling out DoD idiocy—this one's for you. 🔥 Key Takeaways: 💸 Air Force cuts all retention bonuses mid-fiscal year. Morale = dumpster fire. 🤖 Pentagon brings in an Uber exec to fix AI, lasers, and hypersonics. This’ll go great. 🐦 A duck took out an F-16 engine. $1.3 million worth of “quack.” 💡 Light-based data links > radio waves for space. Yes, we’re talking lasers now. 🇨🇳 China’s J-10s shoot down Indian Rafales. Don’t panic. Yet. 🛰️ Space Force budget slashed again. Because who needs satellites, right? 📦 Indo-PACOM gear is being pre-staged—because surprise wars aren’t fun. ☎️ Pentagon hotline to Reagan National is dead. Since 2022. What could go wrong? 🚁 Drone surveillance used in a plot to attack an Army base. Time to rethink countermeasures. 🧢 General Polinski is a bro. We stan. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 – Sponsor: Ataclete Gear Plug 01:00 – BREAKING: Reenlistment Bonuses Canceled. Congrats, Airmen 03:00 – Memes, GI Bill Loopholes, and Budget Rage 04:20 – Pentagon's Replicator Phase 2: Counter-Drone Tech for Pennies (Please) 05:30 – Uber Exec Becomes Pentagon CTO (No, Seriously) 06:30 – Indo-PACOM Pre-Staging and AI-Driven Logistics 07:30 – Pentagon's Broken Hotl Support the show Join this channel to get access to perks: HERE Buzzsprout Subscription page: HERE Register for our Operator Training Summit: OperatorTrainingSummit.com Collabs: Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code: ONESREADY ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code): ATACLete Danger Close Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADY DFND Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADY Hoist - Promo Code: ONESREADY ...