Ops Brief 073: Daily Drop - 10 July 2025 (We Bombed Iran & Still Can’t Share Simulators)

It’s July 10th, and the Daily Drop is back with Jared dropping truth bombs harder than a B-1 on afterburner. From the announcement of the next Operator Training Summit in Nashville (spoiler: it’s gonna slap) to the Pentagon lobbing real ones at Iran, this episode’s got more hot takes than a Twitter war during a government shutdown.

Jared breaks down military logistics like your drunk uncle explaining the NFL draft—passionate, slightly unhinged, but mostly right. He rants about AF simulators being broken garbage, drones flying into everything, the VA being predictably dysfunctional, and why the Air Force is still pretending they might keep the B-1 (spoiler: they’re not). Also, the Space Force apparently needs another $6 billion. For what? Who knows.

If you like your defense briefings with a side of sarcasm, a shot of cynicism, and topped with real-world experience, this one’s for you.

🔥 Key Takeaways:

🧠 The Air Force Research Lab is full of brainiacs... if only we let them cook
📦 Simulators are trash—and creating more harm than good
✈️ F-16s moved from Japan to Korea to flex on North Korea
💣 Operation Midnight Hammer = cool name, questionable effectiveness
🚀 The Space Force wants $6B more because “reasons”
🧴 Forever chemicals? Still forever. Still deadly.
🏥 VA and DOD still don’t know how to share medical records in 2025
🇮🇷 Bombed Iran’s nuclear sites but maybe only slowed them down 2 years? Big “meh”
🧢 “Dress and appearance” updates dropped—cue the Facebook rage
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – Nashville OTS announcement & signup overhaul
01:00 – U.S., South Korea, Japan meet for trilateral security flex
01:30 – Weapons shipments to Ukraine resumed… kinda
02:30 – Air Force’s new drone detection tech (CLUE is no joke)
04:00 – VA/DOD healthcare systems still don’t talk
05:30 – Iran gets smacked—was it worth it?
06:30 – Netanyahu shows up at the Pentagon
06:50 – DoD’s ManTech expanding microelectronics & hypersonics
07:30 – Massive AF/Space Force Cold War-style exercise
08:20 – Japan joins Resolute Force Pacific
08:50 – Red Hawk weather tests—Eglin AFB in “extreme weather”? lol
09:30 – B-52 sim training = outdated and borderline useless
11:00 – DAFI 36-2903 dress code update: cue internet meltdown
11:45 – F-16s head to Korea
12:00 – B-1s get new pylons… but are we keeping them or not?
13:00 – Triple enlistment bonuses incoming
13:30 – Space Force wants out of space traffic control (TRACSS)
14:00 – U.S. satellite spying near Chinese assets
15:00 – Starship launch environmental drama
16:00 – Space Force’s largest war game yet: Resolute Space 25
17:00 – PFAS forever chemicals = forever our problem
18:00 – Space Force wants $6B more (on top of $2.5B “unfunded” list)
19:00 – Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense? Yeah, still a thing
20:00 – Air Force lessons from bombing Iran (they're not near-peer)
21:00 – Ayyadid Air Base = a sitting duck
21:30 – GAO says we suck at space teamwork
22:00 – Air Force Academy layoffs & mini nuclear reactors for Alaska

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