The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

Anyone else find this extremely worrying?

The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

This feels like cosplay + "you could just do ..." energy that will undoubtedly funnel money straight back to these companies.

Bonus bosworth points

I find it odd that they force PhDs, literal fucking doctor's, to go through the Direct Commission course, but allow these dipshit tech nerds to skip it. Almost as if their wealth allowed them privilege a god damned doctor doesn't typically have after a decade of school debt

For those who have read the Galaxy's Edge series, I can only think of the appointees (aka 'Points). Political appointed officer who often end up getting the legionaries killed and lack the combat prowess/skill to be in the officer position they exercise.

Realistically we have many other direct commission officers such as the medical, engineers, legal, etc. What's really different here is they are not requiring the full 5 week Direct commission officer basic course .

Us Army Inc.

They are the very model of modern major generals!

general issue office workers <> PX heros

As Task & Purpose notes, the men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and they won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.

Isn't one of the stated reasons behind restricting trans people and women in certain roles that they would have to change the fitness standards (even though that's a lie)?

"They’ll work on helping the Army acquire more commercial tech, though it’s not clear how conflict-of-interest issues will be enforced, given the fact that the people all work for companies that would conceivably be selling their wares to the military. "

They're doing it for the corruption. Instead of the Army picking the best technology, the CTO of Palantir will be ordering the Palantir contracts.

Next step is for Trump to fire the Generals and replace them with Maga CEO's.

Nazis following the playbook.

All those men are now enemy combatants

Nothing can go wrong when your military is corporate sponsored. /s

All quiet on the frontal lobe.

Imagine having seen combat and suddenly having to take orders from some coddled millionaire man-child that's cosplaying as commissioned officer

The new reservists will serve for about 120 hours a year, according to the Wall Street Journal, and will have a lot of flexibility to work remotely.

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The comments on that page are also good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

FUCK THIS TIMELINE

so the guy who hates soldiers and avoided obligatory service with a shameless medical issue is now injecting suits into it in a further act of denigration.

Sad expectation, unfortunately.

Great, more PowerPoint soldiering, that'll help.

Edit: And more clueless REMFs.

The worst boot louies brought to you by right-wing DEI

America gets one step closer to a service aristocracy.

This is an abomination.

Put it in the pile with the others.

Hey Grok, what is fragging?

Oof.

Ew

I assume they are going to be given the rank of commissar.

In another thread about this, people were calling this fake because of the source.

Edit: The source wasn't Gizmodo.

Get used to it. The United States of America has become something we won't recognize.

I don't get it. Why?

Great, so they’re legitimate non-civilian targets.

This is very stupid. They could give instruction without being party of the military.

And it's laughable to think these execs even know how the tech their companies make even works...