This is how Russia works too, and a lot of other dictatorships. If you buy your way in, you too can have a commissioned rank, and the respect, security, and stipend it comes with.

I'm getting the vibe that this is going to be a prelude to privatization.

Politics aside, I imagine hiring a fat gamer or a wheel chair bound person to pilot drones is an interesting idea. War is becoming more mind than body.

If they're bringing on "IT leadership" people then the only place where they're going to be bossing people around is cubicles, conference rooms, and operations centers.

They may get people killed but it will be because they underestimated the damages caused by their hackers. In fact, I highly suspect that there will be a huge "collateral damage" incident from US/Israel hackers using an undisclosed vulnerability to break into something that "the bad guys" then use to break into some important systems all over the world.

Imagine a major industrial control vulnerability that gets turned into a worm by Iran that then causes massive explosions and chemical fires all over the world. Even in countries that have nothing to do with their current conflict.

You don't have a front line there. Closest I can think of is a ship, or one of the random bases but considering they're in the army reserve they'll most likely never see those.

The "front line" in that war is an operations center somewhere in the US where they control spy satellites and tell our allies, submarines, & other remote equipment what to do.