Ones Ready 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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