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Ops Brief 033: Daily Drop - 24 April 2025 (Microreactors, Shady Signal Chats, and the 20-Step Beard Waiver Saga)
Jared is speedrunning this Daily Drop like it’s the last brief before weekend libo. But don’t worry—this episode still slaps. From Air Force leadership dodging infrastructure bills, to a shaving waiver flowchart that sounds like a side quest from Fallout, it’s everything you didn’t know you needed to rage-laugh through.
In this episode:
☢️ Nuclear microreactors are coming to Alaska (yes, seriously)
📦 The B-21 is flexing, and China should be nervous
✈️ A C-17 just got refueled by a commercial tanker, which apparently took 30 levels of approval and a priest
📉 Space Force: secretly launching stuff into orbit while governors and contractors scream into the void
📶 And yes—Pete Hegseth is still Signal-chatting like your conspiracy uncle
You wanted updates? You got nuclear reactors, missing airmen, and possibly the most bureaucratic beard policy ever written.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
- Nuclear microreactors are real and they’re coming to an AFB near you
- Air Mobility Command did the unthinkable: used a civilian tanker
- There’s a 20-step beard waiver process… for real
- Space Force + NRO = black budget bros stay winning
- Hegseth leaks = OPSEC nightmare meets encrypted boomer energy
- Protesters at Holloman accomplished... absolutely nothing
- China’s mineral chokehold proves we learned nothing from COVID
- SpaceX is launching everything but your Wi-Fi password at this point
⏱️ Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 – Intro, quick rundown warning, PAO update & OTS reminder
- 0:01:10 – Defense Acquisition Review & the F-47 greenlight
- 0:02:00 – New cyber rules aim to fix the broken contractor ATO slog
- 0:03:10 – AMC milestone: commercial refueling of a C-17
- 0:04:40 – Nuclear microreactors at Alaska bases = energy gamechanger
- 0:05:40 – B-21 flexes at Edwards, aimed squarely at China’s perception
- 0:07:00 – Missing airman accused of desertion and child abuse materials
- 0:08:30 – China restricts rare earths = Pentagon readiness nightmare
- 0:09:40 – Signal leak fears: compromised comms & OPSEC anxiety
- 0:11:00 – Small Sat Alliance warns Space Force not to over-outsource
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