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This is your daily drop for the 7th April. We've got a lot of new folks here. So definitely appreciate all of you joining and turning in. This is probably not the face you're expecting to be on a podcast. You're probably expecting to see Erin Love, who's been all over Fox News, News Nation, News
“Max, after Burner podcast, and like he's doing the media rounds, right?”
Well, there's actually three of us, and although Erin is the better looking dude, he is also the weakest and the slowest. Man, I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is. He's pretty feeble, but he's a good looking dude, he's got PJ here, so you've got Erin, who's a retired PJ, if you've got Trent, who's a retired special reconnaissance, and then
you've got me, PJ's, who's a retired comic controller. So we are one-dready, and it's our podcast. So we do appreciate you guys being here, before getting into the news, though, if you'd love for you guys ahead of a tastygames.com, if you guys haven't heard, they got the best
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This is just part of the daily drop that I try and get out daily, but it's never a guarantee,
and usually you don't see my face here.
“Usually you just see a bunch of b-roll that we put on there, because I'm doing it from”
my day to day, but since I'm not at my day job today, you get to see me, which is unfortunate for you, because like I said, Erin is the better look and do. All right, we're going to kick things off the army. The army authorizes early re-enlistment for soldiers deployed in Operation Epic Fury. The United States Army now permit soldiers participating in Operation Epic Fury to re-enlist
up to two years before their current service obligation ends. This policy supports retention during high-operation tempo, and it makes this vigorous with easier-to-read operation tempo, and I'm going conflict with Iran.
The measurement aims to maintain experienced personnel in critical roles in a mid-sustain
combat demand. There's nothing new about this, like, yeah, great, the army is doing that. Therefore, it does that, and how's done that in the past as well. What I did see, and I don't think we're having an issue with retention right now, or an insane issue with retention, like we have in the past, but what we are seeing is an increased
in recruitment, and now, in the past, you could see the services kind of move the goal post to the left, to reach their goals, and they would even then, oftentimes, list them now, the latest that I'm seeing, is that they want an increased, at least in the year-force, but I got to imagine it's across all services, so they've actually moved the goal post to the right quite a bit, so it would be interesting to see in fiscal year
2027, which starts in October, if we actually meet those goals, we'll see. CBD. All right. Next, the United States Army seeks new grenade launcher and ammunition to counter drones. The United States Army continues the development of a new grenade launcher system in
Associated ammunition specifically designed to destroy unmanned aerial systems.
After two decades of efforts to field an improved capability, officials and narrowing options
“for this counter drone role, the system addresses evolving threats observed in recent operations.”
Two decades, 20 years, and you still don't have a solution, or something like you've been deciding for 20 years, I get it, technology changes, acquisitions, processes broken, but dude, leave it to the Army to take 20 years to decide on a new grenade launcher system with an anti-drone munition. Let's just mind, boy.
All right. Actually, you don't have anything for the Navy. Their public affairs has not been reporting anything, so that's where I get all this information from those public affairs that gets published throughout all the services. All right.
“Marine Corps, Medal of Honor, recipient, Dakota Myer Garage, wage from Marine Corps, basic”
reconnaissance course. The United States Marine Corps Sergeant Dakota Myer, the second youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, graduated from the basic reconnaissance course at Camp Pendleton on April 3rd. The demanding 12-week program qualified him for the 0-321, I'm sure there's a different way to say that if you're a Marine, the 0-321 reconnaissance military officer, reconnaissance
military, occupational specialty, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Carlos A. Ruiz attended the ceremony for class 26, attack 26, all right, 22, attack 26. Welcome, graduations Dakota, you don't know me, I don't matter to you, book a job, I wonder what it's like for you though, being a Medal of Honor recipient, having then separated the Marine Corps, and not just being a Medal of Honor recipient, but also
kind of extremely well known, like it's not like you are a small following, but you probably have the largest following of any of the recent Medal of Honor recipients, I'd have to imagine.
“Do I wonder what that's like for you on a day-to-day basis?”
I will never know that, but interesting, especially now that you've come back in.
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Air Force requests nearly $1 billion to begin procurement of collaborative combat aircraft in fiscal year 2027. The United States Air Force is seeking approximately $996.5 million in fiscal year 2027,
plus $150 million in advance procurement to initiate buying of the first collaborative
combat aircraft drones or CCAs. This marks the start of the production for semi-autonomous unmanned systems intended to operate alongside crude fighters. The request aligns with broader efforts to expand affordable mass in contested airspace. It's going to be pretty well when these things actually get fielded, and we start seeing
F-35 pilots, or seeing them fly with F-35, F-22's, other assets that we have as a wingman
With the pilots, and having the pilots not just use AI to control them, but a...
them as well, and then be in a mutual support role to enhance the capability and the performance
of the pilot.
“This is a very believe it or not, a complicated problem that AI just isn't there yet to help”
out with. So what we've got to do is we've got to make the human better. How do we do that? By a multitude of different ways that we are actually getting after believe it or not, we've actually taken some initiative to get past this problem or attack this problem.
But you've got to think how overwhelming it can be in an aircraft when they're so much going on, you get in shot at and stuff like that. And now I want you to now control an artificial intelligence drone that's your wingman or two of them that are your wingmen. Like, get a bit crazy, right?
We've got to figure out how to downregulate upregulate, get that cognitive ability to get
“going and kind of chaff off anything that doesn't actually matter.”
So yeah.
All right, space force, space force requests $71 billion in fiscal year, $27 budget with
significant portion via reconciliation, the United States Space Force fiscal year, $207 budget requests totals $71 billion within the larger DRD proposal representing roughly 80% increase over prior levels. Approximately $59 billion would come from the base budget and $12 billion through reconciliation with heavy emphasis on missile warning, launch procurement and ensuring growth.
Free space operations general chance, salty saltmen, highlighted the need for rapid capability, expansion and resiliency, completely like Gray, when you think about what the space force is doing and what their mission is and how expensive it is to operate in space and put things in the space, it kind of makes you think, boy, we may, and since we're in now a space race, again, that maybe we should put some emphasis on this and give them the budget that
they are requesting. Maybe we don't quite need as many tanks army to say in, to say, just the thought. All right, next, putting on seeks to expand office of strategic capital with over $20 billion in fiscal year, $27, a lot of money stuff going on right now. Of course, it is the season to start making requests for budgets and all that kind of stuff.
But the department of the fence proposed dramatically increasing the office of strategic capital to more than $20 billion in fiscal year, $227 up from roughly $1.2 billion in loan authority the prior year.
This expansion uses federal credit tools to attract private investment into critical
national security sectors, including microelectrics, energy infrastructure and supply chains, the effort supports broader industrial-based strengthening. Including being reported for the cross-dard or the Secretary of Defense, moving on to President United States, President Trump issues ultimatum to Iran ahead of April 7, deadline, President Donald Trump warned, excuse me, I'm still getting a word called, President Trump warned
that Iran could be taken out in one night. That's quote, "Instated that such action might be tomorrow night. If no deal is reached by the Tuesday evening deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz." Trump expanded threats to include all Iranian power plants and bridges while expressing hope for a positive resolution.
The remarks came from indirect communications continued amid ongoing operations in Operation Epic Fury.
“So this is kind of wild because President Trump do a line in sand to do this, right?”
Take out power plants, get the Strait of Hormuz, it's not open up. He's going to bond the power plants and bomb all bridges or some of the bridges. Oh, he said, "All Iranian power plants and all bridges." So that's actually very doable. That's a easy thing to do.
It happens though, if they don't. I think that we will actually bond it, if it doesn't get open up because the consequences of him getting his bluff being called is not worth it in my opinion. I think if you make that ultimatum, you draw that line in the sand. You better be ready and willing to execute it, because if not, then you're going to be seen
As weak, so it's going to be real interesting to see what happens tonight.
All right, next, President Trump praises Space Force contribution during armitis 2 mission,
which they're already on the backside of the moon or have completed their loop around the moon and are on their way back. During a call with the Artemis 2 crew after the mission reached its maximum of distance from the Earth, President Donald Trump highlighted the United States Space Force as very much related to the effort and described it, described it's establishment as one of his most
important decisions I would agree with.
Trump expressed pride in the services roles supporting national space activities and the comments underscored the integration of military capabilities with civilian exploration. Yeah, I agree. We needed the straightforward. All right, moving on to operational stuff. United States military conducts massive operation to rescue down a 15E crew member in Iran.
“Everybody knows that and if you haven't, where the hell have you been?”
United States special operations forces in supporting aircraft executed a complex two-day combat search and rescue mission to recover both crew members of an F-15E strike.
You'll shot down Iran on the third of April.
The operation involved more than 150 aircraft, including H-H-H-6D whiskeys, which are the Jolly Green helicopters, and forward army and refueling point established inside hostile territory. That's stuff that combat controllers do all the time. Go with the pilot and the weapon system officer, where recovery safely despite intense Iranian pursuit and ground fire. Hell, yeah, there was a big asteroid, right?
And I'm looking forward to more and more of the details coming out, but it was impressive what everybody did. And if you're not proud of that, and then I got nothing for you. And I don't know there's talk about, you know, we lost multiple aircraft and we put multiple people in danger to save one person and it's not worth it and stuff like that, but I'm here to tell you that is not an American mentality.
We go get anybody and it's all hands on that and we will destroy 600 aircraft to get
“one person out. That's what we do. That's what we sign up for.”
All right. Last but not least, Department of Defense resonates additional areas for danger pay in Iran conflict. The Department of Defense expanded eligibility for a special danger pay or hostile fire pay to over a dozen new locations for the Operation Epic Fury, including the Iran Sea in the Indian Ocean. Troops in these areas now qualify for the additional compensation due to heightened risk. The update reflects the broadening geographic scope
of operations and support activity due to 100%. Now, for the people that are flying out of the states and going straight into the conflict, can they get a little bit of that to say and be nice. Anyway, that's all we got for a day. I do appreciate you guys being here. And again, if you're new here, welcome on peaches and don't forget to like, subscribe, hit that notification bell and it will visit us over on 1drated.com to back yourselves and
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